Tauranga City Council is waiving the need for resource consent for heavy vehicle operation on the beaches to remove containers.
The council would ordinarily require an operator to have their consent, but on Thursday this was waived for authorised vehicles.
Containers are washing up on Western Bay of Plenty beaches from the Rena shipwreck on the Astrolabe Reef.
Four containers have washed ashore on Mount Maunganui beach after 88 were lost overboard from the stranded ship Rena.
Police have been posted along the beach in order to keep people away from the strewn cargo that has littered the beach.
The officer managing the police support to Maritime New Zealand, Inspector Karl Wright-St Clair, says it's an offence to interfere with the containers and their contents as they remain the property of the original owners or insurers.
2 comments
Bureaucracy blighted
Posted on 14-10-2011 15:05 | By JSmithington
Good to see that commonsense still has some place in government. It was embarrassing to see on the tv news that crews had been prevented from moving a container because they didn't have a "plan" of some sort or other. Full marks to the Council for sorting it out now, but I've only feelings of ridicule for the bureacrat who stopped it in the first place. Perhaps we could be told a bit more about the incident.
resource consent !!!
Posted on 14-10-2011 17:12 | By crazysteed
what the hell is going on here a resource consent for heavy vehicle operation! what get a grip TCC just do it you've closed the beach what else come on
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