Aaron Smail News Today

Scott Hammond/Stuff A former berry farm is cleared in January to make way for a three-storey retirement village on Blenheim’s Old Renwick Rd, but a neighbour past the southern boundary fears the loss of privacy. A retired doctor has refused to provide written consent for a retirement village to be built next door, in a bid to preserve his rural refuge of 40 years. Summerset bought the former Jones Berry Fruits property on Blenheim’s northwestern edge in 2019, and filed a resource consent a...