Welcome to the Napier ‘21 Consents page    

This is a dedicated place for reference materials and helpful content on the process of renewing consent at Ravensdown’s Napier manufacturing facility. We are committed to an open and transparent engagement process.

To be kept informed of the process please let us know here.  

About the Napier Consents

Ravensdown has lodged resource consent applications for various activities at the site with the Hawke’s Bay Regional and Napier City Councils.

We have taken every opportunity to engage with local stakeholders and interested members of the public so our application is as well informed as possible by an open and transparent engagement process.

As an active member of the community, Ravensdown is committed to continuous engagement to ensure community issues related to these activities are appropriately understood and addressed where needed.

We are seeking a 35-year consent term because:

• We will ensure that future on-site and off-site environmental enhancements which are identified and agreed as part of our engagement process will be implemented across the term.
• The cost of a recurring application can be redirected into actual site improvements.
• The importance of this strategic asset for the Hawke’s Bay Region, North Island farmers and growers as well as ‘New Zealand Inc’.
• The long-term necessity of phosphate, sulphur and trace elements to support food supply and export earnings.

About Ravensdown in Napier

• The 16ha site has been making superphosphate since 1953. It was acquired by Ravensdown, a farmer-owned co-operative, in 1987.
• The site is bordered by SH51 to the east and the culturally and environmentally significant Waitangi Regional Park to the south.
• Napier is the largest superphosphate manufacturing plant in New Zealand, one of only five in the whole country and is Napier port’s largest importer.
• The site produces around 250,000 tonnes for North Island farmers and growers which is distributed through a network of 45 stores and applied through dozens of spreading trucks and topdressing aircraft.
• Superphosphate granules deliver phosphate and sulphur which are essential to all plant life and are extracted from the soil when food or crops are consumed.
• We employ 71 at the site and a network of about 170 contractors with a combined wage bill of over $10 million.
• We also employ 23 people at our laboratory in Awatoto, four at our Severn Street store and two staff at the Port of Napier. We receive about 200,000 tonnes of bulk materials through the port each year
• We’ve invested over $18.5M in capital upgrades over six years and annual operating spend is about $14M.
• Ravensdown has announced plans to invest $630,000 to improve biodiversity by creating an area of permanent wetland next to the Napier works. Read more

Napier Works Sustainable Site Project – Resource Consent Applications and Assessment of Environmental Effects

Links to the full set of application documents lodged with the Hawke’s Bay Regional and Napier City Councils, the Technical Focus Group documents and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Compliance Monitoring Reports are provided below.