A $60m apartment complex planned for Bureta Park has been given consent by Tauranga City Council hearings commissioners.
It means that sometime in the next five years the iconic Bureta Park Motor Inn and former Otumoetai Trust will be demolished and replaced with a semi circular three-storey apartment complex, plus retail shops and a liquor outlet – unless there is a successful appeal.
Bureta Park.
Commissioners Greg Brownless, Wayne Moultrie and David Stewart have ruled in favour of every aspect of the Perry Developments proposal that was non-complying.
The 11m metre height of the three-storey apartment complex is approved. Residents opposing the development argued the residential A zoning restriction of 9m should apply.
The commissioners accepted legal advice that special zoning applied and 11 metres is allowable.
The intensity of the 86 apartment development, nine shops, a wholesale/retail liquor outlet and bar-restaurant on the site is also approved, as is the felling of 18 protected landscape trees.
4 comments
what a sham!
Posted on 02-12-2009 13:30 | By claypole
There is no way this development should go ahead as it stands. What is the point of having a district plan when "special" circumstances should allow the development. The "commissioners" and council, by allowing this development in its present form to be allowed, are showing a transparent corrupt system. If they think that the public are blinkered by reasoning of good for job prospects, economic social benefit and great for the expanding city, then I think they are as shallow as the district plan rules and regulations!
Mockery
Posted on 02-12-2009 14:49 | By RawPrawn
Commissioners approved "......the felling of 18 protected landscape trees" Obviously not protected at all. Farcical !!
Posted on 03-12-2009 11:19 | By RawPrawn
What seems to have totally eluded thomas here is the common thread in the posts questioning the point of a district plan in the first place. If its provisions continue to be so cavalierly disregarded then will thomas have no problem with a future development impacting adversely on his ivory tower?
Posted on 02-12-2009 13:23 | By claypole
What is the point of having a district plan with rules and regulations. The council is voted in by the community and by allowing this development to go ahead, the "commissioners" are showing the council to be as corrupt as the developers!
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