OIAD-3712
14 March 2024
Stephen Prendergast
[FYI request #25406 email]
Tēnā koe Stephen
Thank you for your request to the Department of Conservation, received on 16 January
2024, in which you asked for:
“Please supply all submitted Works Approval requests and surrounding
correspondence for Turoa Ski Field from 1 August 2023.”
This letter is further to our earlier correspondence of 6 March 2024, in which we advised you
that we had made a decision on your request but that additional time was required to prepare
material for release. Thank you for your patience while we finalised that process.
As previously advised, I have decided to release relevant parts of the documents listed in the
Table 1 Schedule of documents attached to this letter. Some information, as previously
indicated, is withheld under the following sections of the OIA:
• section 9(2)(a) – to protect the privacy of natural persons;
• section 9(2)(b)(i ) – to protect the commercial position of the person who supplied the
information, or who is the subject of the information.
In making my decision, I have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of
the OIA and determined there are no public interests that outweigh the grounds for withholding.
You are entitled to seek an investigation and review of my decision by writing to an
Ombudsman as provided by section 28(3) of the OIA.
Please note that this letter (with your personal details removed) and attached documents
may be published on the Department’s website.
Nāku noa, nā
Rachael Jordan
Principal Advisor
Department of Conservation
Te Papa Atawhai
National Office, 18-22 Manners Street, PO Box 10420, Wellington 6143 Page 1 of 2
Table 1 - Schedule of documents
Item Date
Document description
Decision
1
24
November The Lines Company - work approval Released in part – section
2023
–
15 emails
9(2)(a).
January 2024
2
6 – 21
Ngāti Haua - consultation emails
Released in part – section
December 2023
9(2)(a).
3
5 December
Ngāti Rangi - consultation emails
Released in part – section
2023 –
9(2)(a).
4
13 November
RAL - works approval application
Released in part – section
2023 – 15
emails
9(2)(a) and 9(2)(b)(i ).
January 2024
Note, some material in this
bundle does not relate to
the Works Approval and is
marked out of scope.
5
5 – 8 December Te Korowai o Wainuiarua -
Released in part – section
2023
consultation emails
9(2)(a).
6
21 November
Ruapehu District Council - building Released in part – section
2023 – 11
consent - emails
9(2)(a) and 9(2)(b)(i ).
January 2024
National Office, 18-22 Manners Street, PO Box 10420, Wellington 6143 Page 2 of 2