Ōpihi Whanaungakore: Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa has lodged an appeal in the High Court “Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa have today lodged an appeal against this decision in the High Court.
“Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa, alongside Hapū members, are opposed to the consent application which seeks to develop culturally significant land. Ngāti Awa, consider the subject site at 77 Bunyan Road and the broader areas surrounding the site to be ancestral land of significant cultural value.
The consent application was made by MMS GP Ltd which outlined developers’ plans to build 240 residential lots, a retirement village, 13 access lots, eight reserve lots, and seven public road lots.”