Lower Hutt Apartment Tower
Yesterday the Hutt News published an article on a proposed 14 storey tall apartment building to be built on the existing site of the Angus Inn.
The tower will overlook the houses and backyards of many houses in the neighbourhood and will block the evening sun for some residents so natually they are a little peeved about it. But they can't object to it as it's permitted under the district plan.
This stand-off is actually caused by a loop-hole in the Resource Management Act - because Council and Residents didn't contemplate a tower block being built there is no restriction was included in the district plan about the site preventing the building going up.
Of course, if the old common law process was in place - that is, a property owner could prove some injury (like loss of privacy and sunlight) would occur because of the actions of the Tower developers - then they could prevent the construction until all parties had negotiated an agreeable course of action.
Another nail in the coffin for the RMA.
The tower will overlook the houses and backyards of many houses in the neighbourhood and will block the evening sun for some residents so natually they are a little peeved about it. But they can't object to it as it's permitted under the district plan.
This stand-off is actually caused by a loop-hole in the Resource Management Act - because Council and Residents didn't contemplate a tower block being built there is no restriction was included in the district plan about the site preventing the building going up.
Of course, if the old common law process was in place - that is, a property owner could prove some injury (like loss of privacy and sunlight) would occur because of the actions of the Tower developers - then they could prevent the construction until all parties had negotiated an agreeable course of action.
Another nail in the coffin for the RMA.
posted by Michael at
7:59 PM
1 Comments:
Ain't the RMA grand- you can't paint a fence an unauthorised colour, but you can build a tower block.
The sooner this crock of shite is dumped, the better.
In the meantine, those affected can always move to Masterton ;-)
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Oswald Bastable, at 3:58 PM
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