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Wednesday 25 September 2024
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Hazard map has ‘chilling effect’ on market MAX FRETHEY
Local Democracy Reporter
Proposed hazard maps for Nelson are alleged to be preventing properties across the city from
being insured. The claim has been put to the commissioners overseeing the hearing for the city council’s controversial proposed overhaul of its planning rules.
The original maps the council put out for consultation included several areas shaded with flooding, inundation, fault hazard, and slope risk overlays. One Rocks Rd resident, whose
home falls within the slope risk overlay, said that her property has never failed to be insured until the council put out its map for consultation. “It has essentially rendered our
property uninsurable. This has been incredibly distressing for us as we look to protect our most valuable asset, our home.”
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What’s in a dog’s name? KATE RUSSELL
Fiona Paine and Charlie the cavoodle, who was named after her father. Photo: Kate Russell.
Copy that, Charlie. The results are in, and Charlie is the most popular dog name in Nelson. In fact, there are 69 of them registered here, and that’s not counting the unique spellings of the name too – Charley, Charli, a couple of Charlie Browns – but no Charles’. One of Nelson’s canine Charlies belongs to Stoke resident Matthew Benge. He says that his nearly-one-
year-old rough-coated collie, who is blind in one eye, came from breeders - who are also pilots - in Whakatāne, and all the puppies in the litter were named after call signals. Charlie was born with one good eye. “It was a birth defect, not genetic, they think it was from an infection in the womb. The eye is there it’s just small. “If I get down to his level he puts the blind eye against my chest, it makes him feel safe. I’ve bought him a pirate patch as he might get seeds in there in the summer… the eye socket is a little empty.” Matthew says Charlie can be tentative, but he is now training him up to See page 2.
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