development

Oamaru will get a big boost next year when work starts on a new business park.

The finer points of the legal argument against a proposed new Dunedin City Council charge on developers began to emerge yesterday, the second day of hearings on the draft development contributions policy.

The risk of being landed with heavy legal costs may stop a community group from appealing the proposed Shotover Country development.

Developers behind a proposed subdivision at Arthurs Point have gone back for round two, after being declined consent in March this year.

Colourful Auckland developer Nigel McKenna is finally bankrupted.

Proposals for the controversial housing cluster at the end of Broad Bay's Bacon St will not be supported in the draft management plan for the Harbour Cone property.

Dunedin property developers fear a new city policy will make projects unviable and bring development to a halt.

An area of rural land near the confluence of the Shotover and Kawarau Rivers would probably be developed whether or not the Shotover Country plan change application was approved, a hearing was told yesterday.

A new commercial building under construction in Alexandra is a vote of confidence in the community, a business leader says.

A process to handle development in the Mackenzie and Omarama basins could come from Minister for the Environment Nick Smith within two weeks.