Canterbury quarry operators petition for priority over new housing
Locals mobilised in their hundreds and raised $40,000 to fight it over fears quarry dust would damage their health, and an appeal against its approval has been lodged in the Environment Court. But the region is also one of the fastest growing in the country, with its population doubling since the Canterbury earthquakes, and one Lincoln subdivision proposing 2000 new sections alone. In its plan, Selwyn District Council proposed splitting primary production into two types of activities – rural production such as farming, which will not need a resource consent, and mineral extraction such a...