Residential development 'going gangbusters' in Tasman District
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 going to create a slowdown but it is going gangbusters.” The numbers, contained in a May 6 report fr...