News from Long Bay to Weiti Forest
Housing plan polished
Wayne Thompson (3rd Oct. 2006, NZ Herald): Landco has revised plans to build houses on the rural backdrop to Long Bay Regional Park, "in an attempt to improve views of the Hauraki Gulf and protect sacred Maori sites". Comment: the latter may include archaeological sites yet to be discovered, and archaeological sites do not have to be 'sacred' to deserve or require protection. With suitable study and presentation, even the most ordinary of archaeological sites can have economic and social value as historical destinations. At present, the pre-European history of the entire North Shore is almost entirely invisible, for most people.
Auckland green belt threatened
Wayne Thompson (19th Oct. 2006, NZ Herald: Weiti forest is the largest privately-owned piece of undeveloped land on Auckland's north-east coast. Williams Capital wants to develop a quarter of the 900ha property, which currently has pine trees on 80 per cent of it and a coastal walkway from Stillwater to the 1855 Dacre Cottage. The plans involve gifting a park of more than 300ha, including a large part of the Okura Catchment, which has featured in planning battles over the years with environmental groups anxious to protect the Okura Estuary and Okura-Long Bay Marine Reserve.
Wayne Thompson (3rd Oct. 2006, NZ Herald): Landco has revised plans to build houses on the rural backdrop to Long Bay Regional Park, "in an attempt to improve views of the Hauraki Gulf and protect sacred Maori sites". Comment: the latter may include archaeological sites yet to be discovered, and archaeological sites do not have to be 'sacred' to deserve or require protection. With suitable study and presentation, even the most ordinary of archaeological sites can have economic and social value as historical destinations. At present, the pre-European history of the entire North Shore is almost entirely invisible, for most people.
Auckland green belt threatened
Wayne Thompson (19th Oct. 2006, NZ Herald: Weiti forest is the largest privately-owned piece of undeveloped land on Auckland's north-east coast. Williams Capital wants to develop a quarter of the 900ha property, which currently has pine trees on 80 per cent of it and a coastal walkway from Stillwater to the 1855 Dacre Cottage. The plans involve gifting a park of more than 300ha, including a large part of the Okura Catchment, which has featured in planning battles over the years with environmental groups anxious to protect the Okura Estuary and Okura-Long Bay Marine Reserve.
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