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Wednesday 9 November 2016
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Council to focus on residential growth Simon Bloomberg
Nelson MP Nick Smith believes the Tasman District Council has been caught “flat-footed” by the increased demand for sections after a report shows that its long term plan underestimates residential growth around the district by more than 300 per cent.
The report, to be discussed by council’s engineering and services committee on Thursday, shows that 555 sections are now coming on stream around Richmond, Mapua and Wakefield. However, that’s still nowhere enough to meet demand and developers are asking council to fast-track capital projects so they can keep
up with the “frantic pace” of the residential growth. The report concedes that council’s failure to accurately predict the rate of residential growth has resulted in a “limited number of lots on the market in a period of very high demand” which has “contributed to escalating section prices”. Although Nick, who
is also the Housing Minister, agrees that predicting residential growth can be challenging, especially when “you get a market turning as quickly as you have in the housing sector”, he says council should have seen that the demand for sections was about to skyrocket. “The challenge for councils is to
try and predict the number of sections that are needed in the future so they can build the sewer and water and roading infrastructure. But if you look over the last four years, the number of houses being built in New Zealand has gone from 12,000 a year to 30,000
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Curious, cute and cuddly at show Simon Bloomberg It takes a lot of work to set up one of the favourite displays at the Golden Edge Nelson A & P Show but for Sonja Kamphuis assembling a menagerie for the animal nursery is one of the highlights of the year. The animal nursery is always one of the biggest attractions at the show and it won’t be any different this year, thanks to Sonja and her helpers who have been busy selecting another curious, cute and cuddly line-up for the Town & Country Vet Animal Experience Barn. Sonja says the animal nursery is popular because it appeals to families. It is also
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Town & Country Vet staff Jenny Pollitt, Sonja Kamphuis and Annette McFadgen with Olive and Tuffy, will be running the animal experience barn at the Golden Edge A & P Show at Richmond Park on November 19 and 20. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
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