Rural communities' attempt to join city district set to be jilted
Warwick Smith/Stuff Ōpiki farmer Clive Akers says Horowhenua District Council and Palmerston North City Council hijacked the boundary change process. “We are left with a rating authority we wish to depart from and an authority which doesn’t want us.” Akers was one of five residents who in 2018 initiated and developed the application with more than 300 signatures to the Local Government Commission. If the boundary is shifted, Horowhenua would lose about 14 per cent of its land area and 4 per cent of its population. Akers said the group was told deliberations would focus on the resid...
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