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Andrew Dickens: The jungle drums are starting to thrum for the fast-track regime
Well, the jungle drums are starting to thrum for the fast-track regime.
Word on the street is that legal action is coming for a number of the proposals currently before the committee.
Meanwhile, there was a fiery Auckland Council meeting yesterday full of anger at residential fast-track developers.
Mayor Wayne Brown has vowed to be a thorn in the side of subdivisions looking to circumvent the council, considering telling fast-track developers —and future residents— it won’t provide or fund basic services to them.
The problem is the developers are using the new system to gazump planning rules…
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