18-08-2023, 12:11 PM
After 30 years, locals have now finally had a win. The court ruled that bach owners (Preserve Dory park domain group) will not get a judicial review.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3009528...t-to-shred
The community was “ecstatic” over the ruling, said Gage-Brown.
“We are ecstatic and fair to say, so is the Tairua community. This is a long anticipated project that will finally come to fruition. The perseverance and effort to get this across the line with the reward being a skate park for our community."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3009528...t-to-shred
"A 30-year battle over a Coromandel skate park between locals and bach owners that involved “dirty tricks”, “bribery” and accusations of nimbyism has reached its conclusion in court.
The community and waterfront property owners had been pitted against each other over a skate park in Tairua’s Cory Park Domain, near the estuary.
A High Court judge has this week dismissed the request for a judicial review, mounted by Preserve Cory Park Domain Inc. This group, many of whom were from Auckland, opposed the park for its proximity to houses, potential noise, anti-social behaviour and sanitary fears about toileting.
It was a last-ditch bid to stop the skate park to block the project, with legal wrangling meaning costs have blown up to more than a million dollars.
There’s been plenty of skulduggery in the battle.
Stuff revealed in June how an Auckland rugby club encouraged members to stack a community survey with opposition to the park to help out a benefactor with a holiday home in Tairua who opposes the facility.
The community was “ecstatic” over the ruling, said Gage-Brown.
“We are ecstatic and fair to say, so is the Tairua community. This is a long anticipated project that will finally come to fruition. The perseverance and effort to get this across the line with the reward being a skate park for our community."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
