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Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc 
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30 November 2023 
Att: Kainga Ora & Ruapehu District Council, 
And 
Horizon Regional Council 
I am writing to you after receiving a letter by email (29 Nov 2023) and hand delivered in the 
neighbourhood surrounding the proposed build site at Teitei Drive Ohakune.  
In summary, the letter explains that a new resource consent will be submitted in early 2024 
to enable earthworks at the site and that the new resource consent “does not include the 
subdivision of individual lots” and that “The land use and subdivision designs will be part of a 
second resource consent application”.  
We note that there is already two resource consents lodged with Ruapehu District Council in 
July 2023 and being processed with agreement that they will be notified and S.92 requests 
for further information extant and overdue.  
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We also note that the applicants have belatedly lodge applications with Horizons Regional 
Council in August 2023 and that these have requests for further consent applications 
outstanding AND agreement the applications will be notified and a joint hearing held. 
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There is also still to be lodged a follow-up application for land use consent due on the initial 
time-line in mid 2024 (but likely delayed) to address the siting of the non-complying 
dwellings, access and parking breaches.  Our independent technical and legal research 
shows that these current and the future resource consents would likely (as presently 
presented) fail to meet the policies and rules on a number of matters, including 
infrastructure design. 
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In addition, we note KO’s own 2023 Policy Document Building Design requirements are also 
not complied with.  
 
Joint communications by the development partners to neighbours have made media 
statements and released communications to affected parties that the consents would be 
notified. 
 
 
Given RDC & KO (joint applicants) have requested both the RDC & Horizons current consent 
applications already lodged be notified in a joint hearing and the intended application is 
clearly a pre-requisite work wise (and likely to create the positioning of infrastructure 
including roads and require a number of similar consents), we request that: 
i) 
We be immediately notified of the lodgement of any & all consents relating 
to Teitei Drive land AND 
ii) 
Any such consent application be notified so as to consult with the community 
 
We record also that under the agreement dated 5 April 2023 with Housing New Zealand 
Build Limited there is a requirement for Council to create a super lot at Teitei Drive. Please 
advise when Council intends to make this subdivision application and also whether there 
will be a requirement for consent from Horizon Regional Council 
 
 
Many thanks for your time. 
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President - Ohakune Ratepayers and Residents' Society Inc.   
https://www.ors.nz  
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