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Part of the Nelson City Council's consultation on a controversial housing development in the Maitai Valley has been labelled as unreasonable by the Chief Ombudsman.

First-home buyers and elderly renters are paying the price of a "dire shortage" of housing in Rotorua, agents say.

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However, when central Government came out with a new National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS UD) in August 2020, councils throughout the country were required to come up with a new FDS to get back up to date. While the report to council stated the 2019 FDS could form a starting point for the new document, all the sites currently identified for future growth would need to be reassessed under the new requirements. The new requirements also include broadening the scope of the FDS to...

Andy Jackson/Stuff The number of new dwellings consented in Tasman district has climbed for the third year running to a record-high 601 in the year to March 31. A record-high 601 new dwellings were consented in the Tasman district in the year to March 31 – almost three times as many as Nelson. “It is a record for us,” Tasman District Council environment and planning manager Dennis Bush-King said on Wednesday. The previous high in Tasman was 581 in 2002-03. “We thought Covid was goi...

Looking south-east at land in the Maitai Valley earmarked for a potential residential development (file photo). Save the Maitai campaigners have claimed the Nelson City Council failed to follow its own advice with regard to a potential residential subdivision in the Kaka Valley, but council says it followed a “robust" consultation process. The Save the Maitai group was formed in July 2020 in response to the Maitahi-Bayview syndicates plans to build up to 550 houses in the Kaka Valley (along ...