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Friday, 16 April 2021, 1:31 pm Much-needed affordable housing for the Queenstown Lakes District is on the way, after the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) approved the transfer of land in Arrowtown to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) for $1. The approval was signed late last month and is a key step in allowing the land, on Jopp Street, to be developed into a mixture of affordable rentals. This will include an allocation for elderly housing and Secure Home properties. QLDC Chief Executive Mike Theelen said the move was a “milestone” in helping bring additional a...

Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 1:19 pm Social media can be a wonderful tool for bringing people together in a common cause. It can also be a seedbed and spreader of mis-information on a community-wide scale. To which category do the protests against the siting of an Erebus memorial (to the 257 New Zealanders who died in that tragedy) in a secluded corner of a Parnell park happen to belong? IMO, it is clearly the latter, and the reasons for thinking so are explained below. It has been alleged: that iwi were not properly consulted about the siting, or the design that the plans allegedly require the...

Friday, 9 April 2021, 9:06 am Hastings District Council has agreed to raise the funds needed to complete the final stages of the Hastings Drinking Water Strategy – the construction of treatment facilities at the Frimley and Eastbourne sites and associated pipe works. Providing safe drinking water and increasing the capacity and resilience of the network remains Council’s number one priority; as set out in its 2018 Drinking Water Strategy. The major water storage and treatment facilities at Frimley and Eastbourne (the latter subject to receiving Resource Consent) are the last major compo...

Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 4:36 pm Hastings District Council will decide on a lead contractor and budget for the district’s two largest and most critical drinking water infrastructure projects this week – the new Eastbourne and Frimley treatment facilities. Providing safe drinking water and increasing the capacity and resilience of the network remain Council’s number one priority; as set out in its 2018 Drinking Water Strategy. The Eastbourne and Frimley water storage and treatment facilities are the last major components of the strategy. The tender being considered this week is for the...

Press Release – House Flipping In a recent High Court decision, Auckland Council is required to provide submissions for all Resource Consents within certain land blocks, to a local resident that has been fighting council decisions for the better part of the last two decades. Residents of the up-market North Shore, Auckland suburb of Takapuna may not yet be aware of a High Court interim order that essentially gives one single property owner, Franco Belgiorni-Nettis the right to be informed of any and all resource consent applications that fall outside of the already approved Auckland Unitary...