HARRY KENT

Three years on from his last council tilt, Harry Kent’s election song remains the same.

Forever a sporting legend after wining a Commonwealth Games cycling gold in Edinburgh in 1970, Kent offers a few points of difference with his city governance ambitions.

Now 69-years-old, he is the only former councillor in the race after having served nine years as elected representative in the 1970s and 80s.

Today, and for the last several years his relationship with council is anything but positive.

Kent remains locked in an already several-year legal battle with the council over the commercial valuation of his two-acre market garden business and residence in Trentham.

‘‘Some of the corporate services officers of the Upper Hutt City Council and Quotable Values New Zealand Ltd have, for too many years, illegally persecuted our suburban commercial rated business,’’ Kent’s official candidates profile said.