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October 7, 2022
Worker injured, power cut in house-site accident... p2
Hauraki junior selected for national SUP team... p3
Interview: Departing vicar Charmaine Braatvedt... p26-27
U-turn by council set to block marina plans
A plan to build a 119-unit housing development on the Bayswater Marina reclamation suffered a major blow last week, when Auckland Council withdrew its support for the proposal. At the end of the 10-day hearing into the resource-consent application to build 92 terraced houses and 27 apartments in three
blocks, council’s planning team said it had no choice but to reverse its prior recommendation to approve the development. The application failed to meet the criteria laid out in the marine-precinct zoning of the Auckland Unitary Plan – as clearly spelled out in the evidence by expert witnesses and lay submitters, said the council’s consultant
planner on the project, Ila Daniels. The lack of land allocated for marine services in the development was a key reason for council’s u-turn, she told the hearing. “Residential uses have been prioritised over marine activities,” which had led to her to reconsider her position, Daniels said. To page 6
Girl power on track at open day
Fan club... Two sets of Narrow Neck sisters hung out with Commonweath Games pole-vault medallist Imogen Ayris at a Takapuna Athletics Club open day. They are (from left) Scarlett (10) and Greta Smith (7), Emilia (7) and Francesca Dykes (10) and Zoe Smith (10). Story, page 36.
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Apartment 12/2, Queens Parade, Devonport To be sold by auction on 13 October, 1pm (if not sold prior)
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