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By Su an Sandy susan.s@theguardian.co.nz Environment Canterbury is expecting to make a decision within the next couple of weeks on whether to publicly notify a consent application from The Fairton LP.

The company has applied to convert a dairy irrigation con sent relating to a bore on a property it owns on the outskirts of Ashbur ton for water bottling purposes.

“The consent application is still in process and no notification decision has yet been made ,” an Environment Canterbury spokesperson said. “ We expect this will occur in the next couple of weeks.”

The Fairton LP has an active consent granted in 2012, to take and use water from the bore for irrigation.

It has now applied to ECan to convert the consent to one for water bottling, and has flagged other commercial uses of wa ter at the site, such as craft beer manufactur ing. Its application seeks non-notification, claiming the effects of the oper ation at the site will be minor.

Non-notified consents are significantly cheaper and quicker to pr ocess. But if there are likely to be adverse effects on the environment or ther e are people who may be adversely affected from whom the applicant can not obtain written approval, public notifi

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cation is advised. I f successful in getting the consent alteration, the company is then likely to apply to the Ashbur ton District Council for resource consent for land use as the land is zoned Rural B.

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