Management of Waste as an important Long Term Plan issue
William Foster made this Official Information request to Auckland Council
The request was refused by Auckland Council.
From: William Foster
Dear Auckland Council,
The 2021-2031 10 Year Budget (Long Term Plan) consultation document and supporting documents are consultation documents following the special procedure requirements of the Local Government Act 2002 (LGA).
These long term plan documents make no reference to a new regional landfill. Nor does any new regional landfill provision appear in the Auckland Plan 2050.
The private proposal to establish a regional landfill at Wayby valley has received significant attention and the plan change and resource consent application to vary the Unitary Plan are currently under consideration by Commissioners.
Management of regional waste is a significant and important issue and Auckland Council (AC)’s plans for that are set out in Auckland’s Waste Management and Minimisation Plan of 2018 which aims for zero waste by 2040 and has no reference to a new regional landfill.
Please provide any documents associated with the preparation of the Long Term Plan consultation documents that:
* refer to the proposal for a new regional landfill in the Wayby Valley (or elsewhere);
* identify whether the provision of a new regional landfill is a significant or important issue or choice;
* refer to whether or not provision of, or for, a new regional landfill should be provided for in the proposed long term plan;
* consider how the local authority is informing discussions with its communities about this choice; or
* refer to whether AC is complying with the requirements of the LGA by not including reference to the new landfill in the consultation document, or by failing to refer to whether or not AC has any plans for a new regional landfill or alternatives for waste disposal.
Yours faithfully,
William Foster
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Kia ora Willaim
Thank you for your request for information about a new regional landfill.
I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received.
If you have any questions, please contact Samantha Sinclair at 09 301 0101
[email address] quoting reference number
8140008303.
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Dear William
Thank you for your request for information. Please see attached our
response.
If you have any further queries please contact me on (09) 890 7151,
quoting Official Information Request No 8140008303.
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Kind regards
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From: William Foster
Dear Auckland Council,
Thank you for your response to my original queries.
Further to your response I have the following questions as an additional or new LGOIMA request.
1. When did Auckland Council, [including any of its subsidiaries and controlled companies] (AC) first become aware of the intention, or proposals, or Waste Management NZ (WMNZ) to establish a new regional landfill at Wayby Valley (the Proposal)?
2. Please provide details and associated correspondence of any discussions AC has had with landfill managers for the disposal of residual waste to landfill beyond when the Redale landfill’s consent expires in 2028.
3. Please provide all correspondence (including emails or other documents) between AC and WMNZ from the period when AC first became aware of the WMNZ Proposal or Jan 2014 (whichever is the earlier) until WMNZ had its resource consent application accepted by AC (13 March 2020).
4. Please identify any of that correspondence between AC and WMNZ that relates to capacity at the WMNZ landfill at Redvale?
5. Please advise how much AC has spent annually for disposal of residual waste-to-landfill annually since 2014 at Redvale and at other landfills separately.
6. Please provide non-commercial details of any contracts between AC and WMNZ for disposal of waste at Redvale or elsewhere, including initiation, renewal and expiry dates and similar details for any other contracts AC has with alternative landfill managers for waste disposal.
7. Does AC have any preliminary understanding or agreement (formal or informal) with WMNZ for the disposal of waste to the new regional landfill if the Proposal is finally approved?
8. Please advise AC’s policy for awarding contracts for residual waste disposal to landfill, including criteria for selection; and whether the contract includes transport to landfill or if that is a separate contract or contracts.
9. Please advise AC’s current plans and intentions regarding the disposal of residual waste to landfill once the consent at Redvale expires in 2028, including which alternative landfill sites have been considered, if the Proposal is not approved.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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Auckland Council
Kia ora William,
Thank you for your email.
Your request as it currently stands is potentially very large and will be too substantial for us to process. It therefore appears likely that your original request will need to be clarified or amended to enable us to respond.
Can you please let us know which one thing you are mainly interested in from the below and would like to focus on? The more specific you are, the more likely we will be to be able to locate information and make a decision on its release.
Some of the information you are seeking may potentially be found on the Resource Consent Hearings page on the Auckland Council website below.
https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/have...
Please respond with your refined request by Friday 6 August 2021. Please note, any clarification or amendment of a request is considered to be a new request for the purpose of calculating the maximum statutory timeframe for response—see section 13(7) of the LGOIMA.
Ngā mihi,
Amanda
The Privacy & LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
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From: William Foster
Dear Amanda,
In terms of priority, please respond firstly to questions 1, 6, 7, and 9.
Question 2 may be treated as a separate subsequent request.
Questions 2, 3 and 4 involve correspondence and are related and may be responded to subsequently.
Questions 5 and 8 stands on their own and may have a separate response.
I trust this will assist with making my request more manageable.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
From: Official Information
Auckland Council
Kia ora William,
Thank you for your email. We will focus on, and respond to questions 1,6,7
and 9.
I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your clarified request was
received.
If you have further questions please feel free to contact Jenny Hua
([1][email address]) on 09 301 0101, quoting reference
8140008936.
Ngā mihi,
The Privacy and LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
From: William Foster <[FOI #14913 email]>
Sent: Monday, 2 August 2021 5:11 pm
To: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: RE: LGOIMA -8140008303 -New Regional Landfill
Dear Amanda,
In terms of priority, please respond firstly to questions 1, 6, 7, and 9.
Question 2 may be treated as a separate subsequent request.
Questions 2, 3 and 4 involve correspondence and are related and may be
responded to subsequently.
Questions 5 and 8 stands on their own and may have a separate response.
I trust this will assist with making my request more manageable.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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Auckland Council
Dear William
Thank you for your request for information on landfill sites. Please find
our response letter attached.
If you have any further queries please contact me on 09 301 0101, quoting
Official Information Request No 8140008936.
Please note you have the right to request a review of this decision from
the Ombudsman.
Kind regards
Jenny Hua
Senior Privacy & Official Information Business Partner
Governance Services
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From: William Foster
Dear Auckland Council,
Thank You Jenny for the information.
May I please now have replies to my Questions 5 & 8 next, and subsequently Questions 2,3, and 4 (which I appreciate would take longer to respond to)
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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Auckland Council
Kia ora Willaim
Thank you for your request for information about residual waste disposal
to landfill. To confirm, we will be responding to Q5 and Q8 from your
original request, highlighted below.
5. Please advise how much AC has spent annually for disposal of residual
waste-to-landfill annually since 2014 at Redvale and at other landfills
separately.
8. Please advise AC’s policy for awarding contracts for residual waste
disposal to landfill, including criteria for selection; and whether the
contract includes transport to landfill or if that is a separate contract
or contracts.
I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received.
If you have further questions please feel free to contact Jenny Hua
([1][email address]) on 09 301 0101, quoting reference
8140009165.
Ngā mihi,
The Privacy and LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
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From: Jenny Hua
Auckland Council
Dear William,
I hope everything is going well with you under the current covid alert
level lockdown.
Further to our email to you on 25 August, acknowledging the receipt of
your request, can you please confirm in regards to your question relating
to the council’s annual spending for disposal of residual
waste-to-landfill annually since 2014 at Redvale and at other landfills
separately, can you please identifying which council waste disposal
service are you referring to? i.e. to Council Refuse, Inorganic, Illegal
Dumping and Refuse Transfer Station waste?
Please advise so we can proceed with collating information for your
request. Many thanks.
Regards and stay well
Jenny Hua | Senior Privacy & Official Information Business Partner
Governance Services | Auckland Council
Ph 09 301 0101
Auckland Council, 135 Albert Street, Auckland
Visit our website: [1]www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
From: Amanda Pillay On Behalf Of Official Information
Sent: Wednesday, 25 August, 2021 10:22 AM
To: 'William Foster' <[FOI #14913 email]>
Subject: LGOIMA - 8140009165 - Residual waste disposal to landfill
Kia ora Willaim
Thank you for your request for information about residual waste disposal
to landfill. To confirm, we will be responding to Q5 and Q8 from your
original request, highlighted below.
5. Please advise how much AC has spent annually for disposal of residual
waste-to-landfill annually since 2014 at Redvale and at other landfills
separately.
8. Please advise AC’s policy for awarding contracts for residual waste
disposal to landfill, including criteria for selection; and whether the
contract includes transport to landfill or if that is a separate contract
or contracts.
I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received.
If you have further questions please feel free to contact Jenny Hua
([2][email address]) on 09 301 0101, quoting reference
8140009165.
Ngā mihi,
The Privacy and LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
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From: William Foster
Dear Jenny Hua,
In response to your follow-up question, I would be pleased to receive the annual costs for AC's disposal of all kinds of waste to landfill at each of the different landfills used, as per my request. If this is further separated out by categories of waste, as you indicate, because the data is collected this way, that would be helpful.
Thank you for this.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
From: William Foster
Dear Jenny Hua,
I thought I had replied to this query sorry.
My original request is for the annual costs (what AC pays to the operator, either directly or through contractors used to transport waste to landfill) since 2014 for disposal of any and all types of waste at each of the landfills it uses (used). I was requesting the costs of actually using/accessing the landfill for disposal, not including the collection or other processing or transport costs of getting waste to the landfill, although e.g. (hypothetical since I don't know) if AC has contracts for transport and disposal which do not separate out the landfill use cost component I would not expect those to be separated out but just explained.
If the information is disaggregated or held separately by the type of waste service which disposes of waste at a landfill i.e. to Council Refuse, Inorganic, Illegal Dumping and Refuse Transfer Station waste, that would be helpful thank you.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
Auckland Council
Dear William
I hope this email find you well in the current covid alert level lockdown.
Thank you for your request for information regarding residual waste disposal to landfill. Please find our response letter attached.
If you have any further queries please contact me on 09 301 0101, quoting Official Information Request No 8140009165.
Please note you have the right to request a review of this decision from the Ombudsman.
Kind regards and stay safe
Jenny Hua
Senior Privacy & Official Information Business Partner
Governance Services
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From: William Foster
Dear Auckland Council,
Thanks Jenny,
I don't think anyone is enjoying the lockdown but we are well and vaccinated thank you!
Your response is appreciated.
I now await your response to my original Questions 2,3, & 4
Stay Safe (and get vaccinated!)
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
From: Official Information
Auckland Council
Kia ora William,
Thank you for your request for information about correspondence regarding
residual waste disposal to landfill. To confirm, under this reference we
will be responding to Q2, Q3 and Q4 from your original request,
highlighted below.
2. Please provide details and associated correspondence of any discussions
AC has had with landfill managers for the disposal of residual waste to
landfill beyond when the Redale landfill’s consent expires in 2028.
3. Please provide all correspondence (including emails or other
documents) between AC and WMNZ from the period when AC first became aware
of the WMNZ Proposal or Jan 2014 (whichever is the earlier) until WMNZ had
its resource consent application accepted by AC (13 March 2020).
4. Please identify any of that correspondence between AC and WMNZ that
relates to capacity at the WMNZ landfill at Redvale?
I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received.
If you have further questions please feel free to contact Jenny Hua
([1][email address]) on 09 301 0101, quoting reference
8140009291.
Ngā mihi,
The Privacy and LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
From: William Foster <[FOI #14913 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 2021 10:58 am
To: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: Re: LGOIMA -8140009165 -Residual waste disposal to landfill
Dear Auckland Council,
Thanks Jenny,
I don't think anyone is enjoying the lockdown but we are well and
vaccinated thank you!
Your response is appreciated.
I now await your response to my original Questions 2,3, & 4
Stay Safe (and get vaccinated!)
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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From: Jenny Hua
Auckland Council
Dear William,
I hope this email finds you well.
Thank you for your request for information about correspondence regarding
residual waste disposal to landfill. Further to our email to you on 21
September, acknowledging your request, we have logged and processed your
request and have discussed this matter with the appropriate departments. I
have been advised that your request is of a substantial nature in its
current form.
In order to provide correspondence might involve staff that are no longer
working at the council, we will need to collate their email through an ICT
search, which will need some search criteria such as details relating to
email sender/recipients, timeframe and keywords, can you please help us
with this information for the following questions:
In regards to questions 2 and 4, can you please let us know the timeframe
of the requested correspondence such as the last 12 months?
In terms of question 3, we will need some keywords to run the
correspondence search, can you please provide some keywords so we can
provide you with meaningful information.
If you would like to make a refinement please let me know by 5pm Tuesday 5
October, and we will reconsider your request. Otherwise it is likely your
request will be refused under section 17(f) of the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA), being that the
information requested cannot be made available without substantial
collation or research.
Please note, any clarification or amendment of a request is considered to
be a new request for the purpose of calculating the maximum statutory
timeframe for response—see section 13(7) of the LGOIMA.
If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact me
regarding this request.
Regards and stay well
Jenny Hua | Senior Privacy & Official Information Business Partner
Governance Services | Auckland Council
Ph 09 301 0101
Auckland Council, 135 Albert Street, Auckland
Visit our website: [1]www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
From: Amanda Pillay On Behalf Of Official Information
Sent: Wednesday, 22 September, 2021 11:00 AM
To: 'William Foster' <[FOI #14913 email]>
Subject: LGOIMA - 8140009291 - Correspondence regarding landfill
Kia ora William,
Thank you for your request for information about correspondence regarding
residual waste disposal to landfill. To confirm, under this reference we
will be responding to Q2, Q3 and Q4 from your original request,
highlighted below.
2. Please provide details and associated correspondence of any discussions
AC has had with landfill managers for the disposal of residual waste to
landfill beyond when the Redale landfill’s consent expires in 2028.
3. Please provide all correspondence (including emails or other
documents) between AC and WMNZ from the period when AC first became aware
of the WMNZ Proposal or Jan 2014 (whichever is the earlier) until WMNZ had
its resource consent application accepted by AC (13 March 2020).
4. Please identify any of that correspondence between AC and WMNZ that
relates to capacity at the WMNZ landfill at Redvale?
I have attached an information sheet on our processes and requirements
under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
We will respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no
later than 20 working days after the day your request was received.
If you have further questions please feel free to contact Jenny Hua
([2][email address]) on 09 301 0101, quoting reference
8140009291.
Ngā mihi,
The Privacy and LGOIMA team
Auckland Council
From: William Foster <[3][FOI #14913 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 2021 10:58 am
To: Official Information <[4][email address]>
Subject: Re: LGOIMA -8140009165 -Residual waste disposal to landfill
Dear Auckland Council,
Thanks Jenny,
I don't think anyone is enjoying the lockdown but we are well and
vaccinated thank you!
Your response is appreciated.
I now await your response to my original Questions 2,3, & 4
Stay Safe (and get vaccinated!)
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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From: William Foster
Dear Jenny Hua,
Regarding my query, you asked:
"In regards to questions 2 and 4, can you please let us know the timeframe
of the requested correspondence such as the last 12 months?
In terms of question 3, we will need some keywords to run the
correspondence search, can you please provide some keywords so we can
provide you with meaningful information."
To restrict the correspondence search, may I request the following:
For Question 2 please restrict the request timeframe to Correspondence since Jan 2014. The results should indicate whether correspondence from any earlier timeframe is useful and, if so, can be the subject of a further later request. N.B. please read the misspelled "Redale" in my question as "Redvale".
For Question 4, a search on the outcome from Question 3 will be helpful thankyou (see below). i.e the same timeframe (since Jan 2014).
For Question 3 Key search terms for email search are: - ANY OF:
SENDER contains wastemanagement
TO contains wastemanagement
For Question 4 - from the Q 3 search results: search for:
SUBJECT contains Redvale AND [ANY OF resource consent OR expiry OR replacement OR new landfill OR capacity] i.e 5 conditional searches if this can not be run as one conditional search.
I hope this is helpful and will facilitate your processing of my query.
Kind regards,
William Foster
From: Jenny Hua
Auckland Council
Dear William,
I refer to your request for correspondence regarding landfill. Further to your reply to our request for refinement email on 1 October 2021, we require more time to respond to your request.
I’m sorry that we will not be able to provide you the information today. We are currently still collating and processing information for your request. Therefore, Auckland Council is extending the time limit for responding to your request under section 14 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). We will reply to your request by 29 November 2021. Please note this is a maximum response time and we will endeavour to respond sooner.
The reason for this extension is:
- The request is for a large quantity of information or necessitates a search through a large quantity of information and meeting the original time limit would unreasonably interfere with the operation of Auckland Council.
Please note you have the right to request a review of this extension from the Ombudsman.
If you have any questions please let me know.
Kind regards
Jenny Hua | Senior Privacy & Official Information Business Partner
Governance Services | Auckland Council
Ph 09 301 0101
Auckland Council, 135 Albert Street, Auckland
Visit our website: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
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From: Jenny Hua
Auckland Council
Dear William,
Further to my last email to you on 1 November 2020, extending the timeframe for us to respond to your request.
I’m afraid that I’m still unable to provide you the response today as we had a delay of getting the ICT search result back and we are having some technically issue of getting some of the extracted emails converted into a format that I can forward to the responsible department to review and make decision.
My apologies that I have to let you know about the delay on the last day of the extended timeframe and I will try my best to have the response ready for you before the Christmas and New Year holiday.
I acknowledge the frustration this may cause, but I will continue to work with the department to provide you the response as soon as I can.
We appreciate your patience while we are working on your request. If you have any questions please let me know.
Kind regards
Jenny Hua
Senior Privacy & LGOIMA Business Partner
Democracy Services
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From: William Foster
Dear Jenny Hua,
Thanks for your advice.
It would be really helpful to have them before Xmas and of course sooner if possible.
I expect I can process the emails in whatever original format you generate them in if that speeds up the processing. If you must convert them please use a searchable format.
Also perhaps you can send me the extracted emails you don't need to send to the responsible department for review now first, and then the others ASAP? Two stages might speed up the response process?
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
Auckland Council
Dear William
I hope you had or having a lovely Christmas and New Year's holiday.
Thank you for your request for information relating to correspondence
regarding landfill. Please find our response letter attached.
If you have any further queries please contact me on 09 301 0101, quoting
Official Information Request No 8140009291.
Please note you have the right to request a review of this decision from
the Ombudsman.
Kind regards
Jenny Hua
Senior Privacy & Official Information Business Partner
Governance Services
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From: William Foster
Dear Jenny,
Thank you for your seasonal good wishes which are appreciated and reciprocated.
Given the extended time taken to process my request and the reason given for that extension being to review the emails before releasing them, and the fact that this has not been done and a blanket refusal to provide given - rather than just providing me all the emails in response to question 3 - I will be asking the Ombudsman to review this decision.
I also consider your reason for refusing to provide the responses to my queries 2 and 4 inadequate since the "experts" reviewing the emails have no reasoned basis for advising that the emails which met my modified request "are not relevant and considered out of the scope of your questions". Since my modified request was for particular emails and the search provided those I would have expected them to be provided unless there were reasonable (e.g.privacy) reasons for rejection. If not I ask that you provide those 244 emails so that I do not include them in my request to the Ombudsman for review.
Yours sincerely,
William Foster
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