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The battle for Okura
Posted 17 07 2018
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The Long Bay Okura Great Park Society claims OHL is disregarding the special values of the estuary. Photo credit: Geoff Reid, Photographer and Environmentalist.
Brad Coombs comments on the ongoing legal battles
The New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects president, Brad Coombs, says the ongoing legal battles around housing developments in Okura, Auckland, highlight the inherent tension between providing efficient housing and transport solutions for a rapidly growing city, and the need to protect our most special natural landscape values.
Todd Property is appealing an Environment Court decision blocking a $1.4 billion, high-density housing development in Okura, right next to a marine reserve. The group, one of the country’s largest property developers, owns a 130 ha chunk of land at Okura, near Long Bay on Auckland's North Shore.