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Stupid and inconsistent : Urban sprawl set to swallow 31,000 hectares of prime land 9 Feb, 2021 06:09 AM 4 minutes to read The Environment Court last month rejected a proposal to re-zone part of the Pūkaki Peninsula near Auckland International Airport. Photo / Auckland Council Other By Stephen Forbes, Local Democracy Reporter Urban sprawl looks set to eat up to 31,270ha of Auckland s most productive land over the next 35 years. And, according to figures included in a recent Environment Court decision, the irreversible, cumulative loss of Auckland s prime horticultural land is accelerating. A group of farmers and landowners had sought to overturn an Auckland Council decision rejecting their proposal to expand the Rural Urban Boundary and the Future Urban Zone across more than 83ha of land near Auckland Airport. But last month the Environment Court rejected the landowners plans to rezone the land.

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