Information published by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that Raglan put in more submissions than any other town, apart from Auckland.
Table 4.1a in the Analysis of Submissions document shows a list of submitter locations
Regions | No. of submissions | Percentage (%) (rounded to nearest %)
- Taranaki region 452 10%
Patea 33
Hawera 72
Opunake 43
Rest of Taranaki 304 - Manawatu/Wanganui region 145 3%
Whanganui 83 - Waikato region 826 18%
Raglan 442 - Northland region 124 3%
- Auckland region 1,054 23%
- Bay of Plenty region 178 4%
- Gisborne, Hawkes Bay regions 82 2%
- Wellington region 391 9%
- South Island – Tasman, Nelson, Marlborough regions 89 2%
- South Island – Canterbury, Westland, Otago, Southland regions 389 8%
- International 819 18%
- No address given 45 1%
TOTAL 4,594 100%
So well done Raglan and thank you KASM for providing the web tool that made it straightforward to make individual submissions.
But of that 442 only a small proportion has so far confirmed that they want to be heard. EPA has set Monday as a deadline, though they would probably have to accept confirmations after that. If each submitter took 10 minutes to explain their concerns, it’d take 3 months to hear us, which would take the hearings beyond the time limit allowed by the RMA.