Hoteliers will appeal
Two of Ohakune's multi-million dollar tourism projects. may be placed in jeopardy by an appeal by T.B and M.E Leggatt. The proprietors of the Ohakune Hotel will consider lodging an appeal against the Railway Hotel resort at the Junction and The Hamlet 200-bed hotel complex, if ongoing negotiations between developers and the solicitors of both parties come to nothing. Both projects were approved at a town planning hearing on Thursday 2 8 January. Mr Leggatt said he was considering the appeal "because until something is resolved we have t o lodge an appeal to preserve our rights." Mr Leggatt said he bases the appeal purely on the objections lodged at the town planning hearing. He insists he is not trying to stop competition from another hotel. In the case of the Railway Hotel resort, Leggatts' ob-
jections were on the following grounds: •'"inappropriate use for land zoned Industrial." • "is contrary to public interest." • "will have Town and Country Planning significance beyond immediate vicinity." • "scheme could not remain unchanged." • "inappropriate when Council intends reviewing scheme." For The Hamlet objections were: • "inappropriate use for land zoned Residential A."
• "sufficient land exists for the proposed development in appropriately zoned areas." • "it will constitute an overdevelopment of the site." • "inappropriate when District Scheme subject to review and attention likely to be given to zoning o f appropriate areas for intended use." • "none of criteria o f section 74 (constituting a specified departure) can be satisfied by this application." Cont'd on back page
Hoteliers appeal
C ont 'd from front page Mr Leggatt said it is nov in the interests of the town to "plonk" a large hotelrelated complex in the midst of land zoned Residential A. "The public benefit must be considered by referral to the District Scheme," he said. "Questions of the public benefit are not simply matters which, in the view of the council, will promote the town." Representative for the applicants, Mr Duncan Harvey, said that Council could be forgiven for assuming that Leggatts' objection was "substantially a trade objection thinly disguised as a town planning objection." Mr Leggatt countered that
the Ohakune Hotel business was not afraid of opposition. "If they (the applicants) are going to proceed with the proposal .to the extent they have laid out, it can only help to entrance the area," he said. "I believe there is room for two hotels in the area - ccrtainly no more."
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 230, 9 February 1988, Page 1
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