No go for Katikati fish farm

Posted on 09-08-2012 22:32 | By cate

Having just read the Katikati Advertiser today with the front story about the fish farm, the report was fair, but a part of the write up was incorrect, Mr Davidson states that if the appellants has spoken to him the out come would have been different. The appellants went to mediation with Mr and Mrs Davdison and the Western Bay District Council with an offer and it wss turned down, so the rest of the appeal had to be heard in court

Posted on 07-08-2012 12:34 | By Pietro

how many times have we seen democracy stymied by a minority. you can have mooing cows, bleating sheep and barking dogs. how much noise do kingfish make. do they also need lights to see where they are swimming. what a wasted opportunity. hope they appeal.

Posted on 07-08-2012 09:52 | By firemansam

How can the region council give consent if they have ment to break there owm rules acording to the ones bitching about it, someone gets of the back side and starts something up which would greate job for the area, u would think people have got nothing more to do in there live but complain and worried about what others are doing maybe they should get a life and move to aussie if its thats bad. just look at the crap getting washed of the port of traunga into the sea and does anything get done about that??????, I feel nz and starting get get like aussies more and more lazy and would rather complaim than work.

Posted on 07-08-2012 09:36 | By Phailed

Looks like a victory for nothingness that will simply see a decline of economy to Greek like proportions as it runs its eventual course to growth only in welfare and dependency. But as for the Bureta pub, it must be a very regulated world when you can’t substitute one commercial activity generating noise, light and traffic (a very large booze barn) with another one causing the same affects (a supermarket). No wonder business looking to invest in an area gets put off. I’d just like to ask Murray Guy why it’s alright for residents in Bayfair to have to put up with a neighbouring Baypark that generates noise, light and traffic congestion?

Posted on 06-08-2012 20:35 | By Brian Anderson

The first responses to this fish farm blog needs answering. Yes it is like the Bureta problem. The only difference is that the fish project consultation was closed off to a very limited number of residents who lived next to this major project. When the residents asked for information they were dismissed as troublemakers. When they went to the Community Board they were charged with being ignorant. The initial project was approved for land consent as a discretionary activity but and by the time of the the court hearing the court noted that the applicant for the fish farm not done their homework and had not met criteria for the land use. The WBOPDC had no rules and wanted to pass it as an intensive land based ’chicken farm’ to push the project through. At no time did the applicant provide any information that would let anyone believe that the project could ever work. This was nothing to do with tree huggers. It was just very poor project management and cavalier planning approval based on the fact that the council had no rules and felt that they would therefore have to approve it. A very strange criteria which we should all be able to take advantage of.

Posted on 06-08-2012 17:24 | By PLONKER

Like has anyone taken a look at night at the Taurnga Port in recent times, then add the noise 24/7, it ecohes all around but many peopel rely on the work and so it is "all ok". I agree with Murray for a change, on the fact that how weird it is ... we all want to see business growth, new jobs, new businesses and of course oppurtunitites for our children yet we find these types of silly decisions being made, it is amazing that it si not the Council this time.

Posted on 06-08-2012 16:50 | By Butch

I cannot believe I am actually agreeing with you, what a crock of Sh##t, this region will be as stagnant as Hamiltons Lake, we need vibrancy and employment, not archaic attitudes, I would rather have a fish farm next to me than an orchard, with its spray issues, if you would like to live on a commune, live somewhere where a majority of people have similar beliefs, and its no bloody wonder smart people are heading to Australia. This area is called the Bay Of Plenty for a reason, and is a sensational place to live, but even I am becoming sick and tired of bureacrats hindering developement, WHY!!!. hug a bloody tree elsewhere.

Posted on 06-08-2012 14:42 | By dumbkof1

So the greenies and tree huggers and there ilk have got there way again. Cant have this sort of thing going on around here can we

Posted on 06-08-2012 14:39 | By murray.guy

Little wonder so many refuse to even think about investing in our region, making their home here! Judge Jeff Smith denies an application to create a fish farm in Pukekura Road, supporting the appellants’ objections based on noise, loss of versatile soils and light pollution, yet it is a permitted and appropriate activity in their rural zone. On the other side of the coin we have a resource consent process (TCC staff and commissioners)that allows the Bureta residential zone (where folk eat, sleep and play), to be home to a noise, light, traffic congesting ’non-complying’ super market with only a very select few allowed to submit their thoughts!