Building suspended over Waikakahi Beach dispute
All building permits for Waikakahi Beach sections near Birdlings Flat will be withheld until an independent arbitrator can settle boundary disputes between landowners, the Wairewa County Council decided yesterday. Land boundaries had been disputed for several years, and the council had to know who owned what before it could grant building permits, said the County Chairman, Mr Bill Thompson.
The land was originally a no-man’s land where people built baches; The. bach owners bought shares In the area anti formed the Waikakahi Beach Association to administer it. Plans of the area had been drawn up in 1974, 1980, and 1985, each with small boundary changes. The association’s members could not agree which plan was correct. ' Several bach owners wanted permits to build
extensions or new buildings but the bounddries had to be settled before i any building could begin, Mr Thompson said. The association met Mr Thompson and Cr Dave Cadman earlier this month but no decision was made. The association had to get its 57 members to agree before the boundaries could be settled, Mr Thompson said. r Cr Cadman said the only way to get the association to agree on boundaries would be to use an independent arbitrator.
- He would meet the association tomorrow to suggest this. The council’s solicitors had’said that building permits could not be issued while boundaries were being disputed, so that the council was quite within its rights to withhold permits, he said. Mr Thompson said the association was meant to handle its own affairs, but the council appeared to be getting blamed for problems it had not caused.
“They called us in to try to sort it out and now it is suddenly the council’s fault,” he said. The council was only responsible for matters such as the correct issuing of building permits and checking sewerage regulations; not for boundary disputes where 57 owners had bought shares in one piece of land.
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