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The hearing for the proposed private plan change to rezone 287 hectares in the Maitai Valley begun last week with the plan's applicant and the public delivering arguments for and against the plan.

Land earmarked for a housing development near central Nelson will be transferred into iwi ownership.

Housing is the No.1 issue in the Nelson electorate, says MP Rachel Boyack and even if a proposal for about 750 homes near the city centre gets the nod, it won't be enough.

The total proposed number of houses in the development is 750, but the Save the Maitai campaign is focused on stopping 550 slated for the Kākā Valley. At the public meeting, organisers said they needed to raise about $110,000 to legally challenge the Nelson City Council’s 2019 Future Development Strategy, and to contest the proposed subdivision at an upcoming Resource Management Act (RMA) hearing. A key part of the groups argument alleges inadequate consultation in the 2019 Future Develo...

Cherie Sivignon07:12, May 05 2021 Supplied An aerial photograph of Nelson with the Maitahi-Bayview development site marked by a dotted white line at the top of the image. Landowners behind a proposal to build about 750 homes on a greenfield site near central Nelson say just one-quarter of the signatures on a petition opposing residential development in the area came from Nelsonians. A syndicate of two companies is behind the venture, known as the Maitahi-Bayview development – Maitai Developme...

Directors Andrew Spittal, left, and Hemi Toia inspect the Kākā Valley area of the proposed Maitahi-Bayview development. The landowners behind a large housing development proposed in a Nelson valley aim to lodge a private plan change application next week. A syndicate of two companies is behind the venture, known as the Maitahi-Bayview development – Maitai Development Co General Partner Ltd and Bayview Nelson Ltd. Tipped to include hundreds of homes, the proposed development is earmarked ...