Terry Grooby News Today

Martin De Ruyter/Stuff The sun used to shine through the windows on the eastern side of Terry Grooby’s home into the kitchen and dining room as soon as it rose “out of the sea”. This winter, Grooby had it for about an hour each day only, he said. “I don’t even know whether I’ll be able to do it,” he said. “My health: I wont be around a hell of a lot longer, but I don’t want this to happen to anybody else.” Grooby’s lawyer, Rob Ord, on Monday said he expected to file with...

Martin De Ruyter/Stuff Terry Grooby looks over his boundary fence in Motueka at a former classroom that blocks the sun from his home of 50 years. Knocked back by the Tasman District Council, Dean Grooby plans to ask the Ombudsman to intervene over a building in Motueka next door to the home of his dying father. Diagnosed with cancer and expected to have fewer than two years left to live, Dean Grooby’s father, Terry, 84, wanted to enjoy that limited time in his Courtney St home of 50 years bu...