Mark Price

While taxpayers will pick up the tab for building the $6.8 million cycleway between Dunedin and Port Chalmers, Dunedin ratepayers will foot the bill for its maintenance.

It is one of the final stages of the NZTA State Highway 1 cycleway through the city.

A crane has been brought in to begin replacing railway bridge 217 at Burkes Bay.

"Leave it the way it is."

That was the message industrial workers in the harbourside area had for the Dunedin City Council after a series of meetings yesterday.

The Otago Peninsula house at 100 Camp Rd, which was subject to a mortgagee sale, has been sold.

Workers at two businesses in the harbourside area of Dunedin will meet today to discuss the implications of the Dunedin City Council's proposed plan change 7: harbourside.

The Otago University Students Association has abandoned court action against the university's code of student conduct.

The Dunedin City Council will damage the city's economy by changing the zoning of harbour-side land, according to Dunedin planner Don Anderson, of Paterson Pitts Resource Management Ltd.

Last year, 3024 New Zealand houses were sold in mortgagee sales - a 500% increase on 2007 and the highest number since records began. One of those forced sales involved the Corish family's Otago Peninsula "dream home", which has a rateable value of $3.75 million.

Philippa Mitchell is off to Perth on holiday next week.