Head Hunters’ fence ‘not compliant’

eral changes to the company’s management structure last month.

Directors, who had links to the Epitaph Riders, have been removed. They have been replaced by Terrence Austin McFarland and Lyndon Vaughan Richardson. Both are senior patched Head Hunters.

Richardson is a former member of the Road Knights in Invercargill and has convictions for serious drug offending.

McFarland is believed to be closely tied to the gang’s Auckland-based leader, Wayne Doyle, and once tortured a man for ‘‘narking’’.

Armed police raided the property looking for drugs last week. It’s unclear whether they found anything. No arrests were made.

Residents in the area said construction work had been carried out at the property day and night in recent weeks.

Lincoln Property Investments was granted consent to build a twostorey garage, workshop and sleepout on the site in 2012, which remains valid.

A consent to build a two-storey house was granted in April 2014, but lapsed in October last year because no building work had begun.

A council spokeswoman said a fence being built around the property was too high and not compliant.

‘‘A notice to fix has been issued by our compliance team requiring compliance within 28 days.

‘‘We have a very good working relationship with these people and we’re working together to get these issues sorted.’’

According to the the council’s website, any fence over two metres will likely require a resource consent. Any fence over 2.5m requires a building consent.

Last week, Detective Inspector Darryl Sweeney said police had been keeping a close eye on the Head Hunters. ‘‘The community has a clear expectation they don’t want them here in Christchurch and we agree with that. We’re going to continue the pressure.’’

The Head Hunters formed in 1967 as a street gang in Glen Innes, Auckland. Police are concerned by the rapid growth of the gang, which has about 240 patched members nationally.