“There is a general acceptance that while the trees are not ideal they are serving a purpose.” He said residents remembered when a previous logging operation in the area went badly wrong and were worried it could happen again.
Loudon Farm, near Teddington, was badly damaged in 2017 when swathes of logs and debris washed onto Philip King’s farm after a heavy rainfall. Tonnes of slash (logging off-cuts) washed down a stream that ran through the farm, flattening fences and ruining grazing paddocks. Logs and sediment also washed into Lyttleton Harbour.
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Philip King s farm on the Banks Peninsula was littered by logs and slash (logging off-cuts) in 2017 after a heavy rainfall.