The Dunedin City Council will attend a sound check at Forsyth
Barr Stadium today after complaints about noise levels
reverberating from a concert on Tuesday night.
Hundreds of University of Otago students are signing a
petition calling for an alternative to the proposed extension
of the central city liquor ban in Dunedin.
A decision to consider spending $20,000 to allow access for
community groups to a well-used Dunedin City Council function
room sparked a second passionate debate at a council meeting
yesterday.
A cost-sharing deal that could help tackle erosion at Te
Rauone Beach, on Otago Peninsula, has been ruled out by the
Otago Regional Council before it has even been discussed.
Access for community groups to a well-used Dunedin City
Council function room appears to have been ensured, but the
mechanism by which that takes place may change.
The second day of the Dunedin City Council's spatial plan
hearings again brought more than 30 submitters with a diverse
range of opinions to the council table.
Dunedin city councillors took in their first days of a
week-long hearing on the future of the city yesterday, the
first 30 or so residents giving their thoughts on a draft
spatial plan.