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Dave Serjeant, missioner, dissented.
Residents in the area strongly opposed the application, citing traffic and other issues. They picketed last year’s hearing.
But the commissioners said they examined the most contentious issues: construction effects, effects on the historic Duder Brickworks, on the coastal edge, traffic and transportation and built form.
“Overall we find that potential adverse effects arising from its construction of the village in the staged manner proposed will be appropriately avoided, remedied or mitigated by conditions of the consent,” the decision said.
The village will take up to 40 months to build. fellow com-
No buildings or surface remains of the Duder Brickworks are visible and descendant John Duder said the site was “acceptable for development”.
On built form, “we find that the bulk, height and location of the proposed buildings establishes a built form on the site that avoids wider dominance or visual effects”.
But Serjeant disagreed, citing the bulk, location and design of three buildings which would have adverse effects and referring to “large bulky buildings that have little or no variation in built form”.
The three buildings were inconsistent with the Devonport Peninsula Precinct, he said.
Auckland Council received 392 submissions on Ryman’s scheme of which 305 opposed it. The commissioners sat for a week in December.