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Wednesday 20 September 2023
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Landowner in limbo over Hope waterway ANNE HARDIE A Hope resident who has been told his house may be in the path of a future stormwater channel says he is in limbo while he waits for the council to firm up its plans. Stephen Hensley owns the former Challenge Mini Golf site on Main Rd Hope and the Tasman District Council has told him it may need the side of the property for a proposed channel that will carry stormwater away from increasing residential development in the area. He says, he has been told the boundary may run through his house, though he does not know exactly where his new boundary may be. A stream already runs from the proposed 2,000-home Richmond South development towards the sea, with tributaries joining it. Council plans to develop it into a waterway big enough to handle one-in-one-hundred-year flood events, while keeping it as natural as possible. That means a meandering stream that follows its natural course, with a ‘greenway’ up to 70m wide in some areas to accommodate floodwater in the big rain events.
McGlashens call time on pottery Royce McGlashen has been potting for 56 years but says its time to do other things. Photo: Eloise Martyn. Full story on Page 4.
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