The landfill is due to close before the end of the decade and the council is now developing what it calls a "resource recovery park precinct" at the site.
The facilities on site are listed in the Dunedin City Council’s application documents as: the new organics receival building; a composting facility; a facility to sort and bale items collected from kerbside recycling bins; a new transfer station where waste would be compacted before it was trucked to landfill; and new glass bunkers for sorting and storing glass before it was taken off site.
There would be staff offices, car parking, access roads and truck parking areas, the application said.
Existing facilities, including the Rummage Store, public drop-off areas for general waste, garden waste and recycling would remain.
Construction of the $3.6 million organics receival building began last year and was the subject of a separate resource consent application.
It receives food scraps and garden waste collected as part of the new kerbside collection service launched on July 1.
The remaining facilities, including composting, are due to be operational next year.
Public notification attracted only six submissions.
Three were neutral, two were opposed, and one supported the application with conditions.
One of those opposed, Peter Adams, submitted against composting in a populated area and raised the issues of odour that plagued the Christchurch City Council’s composting site for more than a decade.
"It has been proven in Christchurch that ... when raw fish and meat waste is included in composting it emits a foul odour," he said.
"Christchurch had to shift their operation because of odour."
Four of the six submitters raised concerns about vermin.
One asked for contact details for a representative to be made available so neighbours had a point of contact when issues arose.
Hearing commissioner Myles McCauley said, in his first minute this week, a hearing had been set down for two days at the Edgar Centre, in Dunedin, for November 20 and 21.
He was due to visit the site the day before the hearing began.
The city council had asked for the full day on the first day to present its application, he said.
