Poor stewardship
Twelve pohutukawa felled at Shelly Bay Road and still no clarification. Research using official information requests has produced the following facts:
CentrePort is the registered owner of this land according to LINZ
Media reported in April the land was sold by CentrePort already resource consented for car parking
Resource consent was granted on August 2 by WCC – it was nonnotified
The land is contaminated and earthworks will require special treatment to prevent exposure of toxins below the current tarseal
WCC considers the proposal has no adverse effects on the environment
WCC considers the proposal has no adverse effects on neighbours
WCC considers there will be no unreasonable traffic problems caused by vehicles entering and exiting the facility
CentrePort has shown no stewardship of the coastal environment or the local amenity value, allowing the destruction of trees before completion of the sale and ownership transfer.
Greater Wellington Regional Council, as majority shareholder in CentrePort, needs to be held accountable along with WCC for their resource consent decision allowing car parking on the Miramar Peninsula foreshore on a contaminated site and without public notification.
When will WRC and WCC explain their actions? STEFANIE BELL
Miramar Dick, Hewitt, and Scott complained about receiving 4000-odd emails. I thought this was all part of the democratic process.
Councillor Dick claimed it was an electronic invasion and a breach of his privacy. There is no breach of privacy. Councillors’ email addresses are a matter of public record and anyone is entitled to email them.
The only breach of privacy is that Scott shares an email address with her husband. How confident can we be that confidential papers sent to councillor Scott have not been read by her husband? More seriously, how confident can we be of the privacy of any of Dr Roger Scott’s patients given he gets emailed clinical information in his role as an anaesthetist?
I emailed both HBRC and NZ Society of Anaesthetists to get answers on what are their email policies. I await their responses. PAUL BAILEY
Napier
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