The overall merits of a proposal to create four subdivisions on an Otago Peninsula isthmus were ''finely balanced'', Dunedin City Council planner Lianne Darby said yesterday. It was the undersized nature of the proposed lots that was ''non-complying''. The application was ''finely balanced'', the applicant having raised some ''sound arguments'' in justifying the proposed number of houses, and granting consent would result in the benefit of covenanted wetland areas. Before the hearing ended, hearing commissioner Colin Weatherall said he would receive more legal submissions before reaching his decision. Mr Page said the land lots that were subject to the hearing could have been reorganised to allow them to meet the official size requirements, including the 15ha limit.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 09, 2017 17:03 UTC