Saddle Hill

Artist Fay Mitchell holds her painting Saddle Hill Bleeding which will be the focal point of an exhibition of works featuring the controversial landmark next month. She is looking for people with existing images or paintings of the hill to lend, or recent artworks of it to sell, for the exhibition.

The company behind the controversial Saddle Hill quarry says it wants Environment Court confirmation the hill "can be quarried without restriction".

The future of the controversial Saddle Hill quarrying operation will be decided by the Environment Court, after the Dunedin City Council yesterday announced mediation with the quarry owners had failed.

Negotiations over the future of Dunedin landmark Saddle Hill appear to be coming to a head, as David Loughrey explains. 

A Dunedin MP's concerns a company has won "a contract to take the top off"' Saddle Hill are wrong, a city councillor says.

The Dunedin City Council has reached an agreement with the owner and operator of the Saddle Hill quarry over what quarrying will take place while the future of the facility is being negotiated.

The Saddle Hill Community Board wants the Dunedin City Council to consult it and the community on its decision to remove shark nets from Dunedin beaches.

Environment Court action involving the Dunedin City Council and Saddle Hill quarry owner Saddle Views Estates will go to mediation next week, following discussions between the two.

Quarrying rights on Dunedin's Saddle Hill will be decided by the Environment Court later this year.

Hundreds of signatures have been collected by a group trying to save Saddle Hill from what they believe is destructive quarrying.