18-08-2023, 12:11 PM
After 30 years, locals have now finally had a win. The court ruled that bach owners  (Preserve Dory park domain group) will not get a judicial review.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3009528...t-to-shred
The community was ÔÇ£ecstaticÔÇØ over the ruling, said Gage-Brown.
ÔÇ£We are ecstatic and fair to say, so is the Tairua community. This is a long anticipated project that will finally come to fruition. The perseverance and effort to get this across the line with the reward being a skate park for our community."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3009528...t-to-shred
"A 30-year battle over a Coromandel skate park between locals and bach owners that involved ÔÇ£dirty tricksÔÇØ, ÔÇ£briberyÔÇØ and accusations of nimbyism has reached its conclusion in court.
The community and waterfront property owners had been pitted against each other over a skate park in TairuaÔÇÖs Cory Park Domain, near the estuary.
A High Court judge has this week dismissed the request for a judicial review, mounted by Preserve Cory Park Domain Inc. This group, many of whom were from Auckland, opposed the park for its proximity to houses, potential noise, anti-social behaviour and sanitary fears about toileting.
It was a last-ditch bid to stop the skate park to block the project, with legal wrangling meaning costs have blown up to more than a million dollars.
ThereÔÇÖs been plenty of skulduggery in the battle.
Stuff revealed in June how an Auckland rugby club encouraged members to stack a community survey with opposition to the park to help out a benefactor with a holiday home in Tairua who opposes the facility.
The community was ÔÇ£ecstaticÔÇØ over the ruling, said Gage-Brown.
ÔÇ£We are ecstatic and fair to say, so is the Tairua community. This is a long anticipated project that will finally come to fruition. The perseverance and effort to get this across the line with the reward being a skate park for our community."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
