Kia ora New Zealand Transport Agency,

This email contains seven requests under the Official Information Act.

(1) Please provide me with an unredacted copy of the document entitled: ‘Attachment 3 Petone to Grenada RoNS Investment Case. The partially redacted copy is on your website here: https://nzta.govt.nz/assets/projects/pet...

(2) In the partially redacted document cited in (1) above, information is withheld in reliance on a number of OIA provisions including: 9(2)(b)(ii), 9(2)(ba)(ii), 9(2)(j). For each instance of withholding, please provide me with details of:
a. whose commercial interests are being protected under each instance of withholding under 9(2)(b)(ii); and
b. who has provided information in confidence that is being withheld under each instance of 9(2)(ba)(ii); and
c. what is the damage to the public interest envisaged by NZTA for each instance of information withheld under 9(2)(ba)(ii); and
d. which persons or companies is NZTA negotiating with, or contemplating negotiating with, for each instance of information withheld under 9(2)(j).

(3) Please provide me with an unredacted copy of the document entitled: ‘Petone to Grenada RoNZ Investment Case July 2025’. The partially redacted copy is on your website here: https://nzta.govt.nz/assets/projects/pet...

(4) In the partially redacted document cited in (3) above, information is withheld in reliance on a number of OIA provisions including: 9(2)(b)(ii) [pages 25, 28], 9(2)(ba)(ii) [pages 19, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30], and 9(2)(j) [pages 22, 23, 32]. For each instance of withholding, please provide me with details of:
a. whose commercial interests are being protected under each instance of withholding under 9(2)(b)(ii); and
b. who has provided information in confidence that is being withheld under each instance of 9(2)(ba)(ii); and
c. what is the damage to the public interest envisaged by NZTA for each instance of information withheld under 9(2)(ba)(ii); and
d. which persons or companies is NZTA negotiating with, or contemplating negotiating with, for each instance of information withheld under 9(2)(j).

(5) Page 35 of the document cited in (3) above has a subheading ‘Mana Whenua’. One bullet point under this heading reads “Begin broader engagement early with relevant iwi entities and wider iwi membership”. Please provide the names of mana whenua organisations or rangatira that NZTA has met with, the dates of those meetings and copies of the notes or documents held by NZTA recording the discussion at those meetings.

(6) The dates of all meetings since 1 January 2016 between employees, contractors or board members of NZTA and directors, employees or representatives of Lincolnshire Farms.

(7) If the Agency decides that good reason exists under sections 6 or 9 of the OIA to withhold any information from me in response to requests (1) to (6) above, I separately request under section 19(a)(ii) of the OIA to be given the grounds in support of each instance of information being withheld. If the Agency is unsure how to comply with section 19(a)(ii) requests, please refer to the Ombudsman’s case note here: https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/reso... .

Under section 16(2), my preferred means of receiving this information is in a text-searchable format, either a Word document or text searchable (not rasterised) PDF.

I look forward to receiving the Agency’s response as soon as reasonably practicable.

Ngā mihi,

Andrew Ecclestone