Signs advertising Mangawhai Central are visible on the farmland between Mangawhai Village and Mangawhai Heads. Auckland-based Mangawhai Central Ltd has applied to Kaipara District Council for a private plan change to develop about 130 hectares of former sheep and beef grazing land between Mangawhai Village and Mangawhai Heads. Independent commissioner David Hill, left, Greg Hill, and Anna Curnow will rule whether the development should go ahead. It's believed the number of submissions from a small town like Mangawhai towards a proposed development of this nature is unprecedented in Northland. The site is subject to the council's Estuary Estates Structure Plan that caps residential house numbers to 500 - provisions Mangawhai Central Ltd felt were overly restrictive.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 24, 2021 16:07 UTC