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The developers want to build a new town on the 650 hectare block that stretches
from the bird refuge on the Manawhai sand dune to Te Arai Point.
This area is currently zoned specifically to protect it from losing
it's "remote" and "non-urban" feel.
To enable them to build a new town the developers have proposed that the district
plan be changed so that the area would be a "Special Zone" that would allow development
including:
- 850 Houses
- A Resort Hotel / Conference facility
- Shops
- Restaurants
- 18 Hole Golf Course
For a comparison Wellsford has 600 houses (as at 2001 census).
There are two endangered species on this beach including the Fairy Tern of which there are less than 40 left in the world.
We at the Te Arai Preservation Society believe that this area is unique for many reasons and that no urbanization of this area should take place, and certainly not on the scale proposed. We suggest that the land could be purchased as a regional park to be enjoyed by generations to come.
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