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Four commissioners find landfill poses “acceptable risk” The hearing panel decision  was not unanimous and was finally released on June 14, 11 weeks after the hearing closed. Waste Management has cleared the first hurdle in its plan to build a regional landfill in the Dome Valley. The Chinese-owned company was granted resource consent by four of the five commissioners on the hearing panel, which delivered its decision on Monday, June 14. The four commissioners who granted the consent – Alan Watson, Wayne Donovan, David Mead and Michael Parsonson – were satisfied that subject to some...

Campaigners against the controversial landfill were "gutted" to learn resource consent had been granted.

Clayden Road plan change allows for 1000 new homes Auckland Council wanted to preserve three notable trees at 245 Matakana Road, but commissioners rejected the idea. A plan change application allowing for more than 1000 new homes to be built on land either side of the new Matakana link road has been approved by commissioners, three months after a hearing in November. The zoning change means more than 100 hectares of land north of Warkworth Showgrounds and west of Clayden Road will switch from its designation as future urban land with some light industry to mainly residential, with neighbourho...