Plans by the Highcliff Trust to use land in the Waikouaiti
recreation reserve for an equestrian cross-country track have
been opposed by other East Otago sporting groups.
The lessees, the Waikouaiti Golf Club and the
Palmerston-Waikouaiti Clay Target Club, do not support the
proposal for land at the southern end of Edinburgh St, next
to the golf course.
The Highcliff Trust hopes to use the land to stage the
Springston Trophy, New Zealand's major pony club event, in
2012.
But the Waikouaiti Golf Club has advised the Waikouaiti Coast
Community Board it wants to extend the golf course by nine
holes.
At this week's board meeting in Waitati, community board
chairman Gerard Collings said efforts had been made with
Dunedin City Council staff to see if both parties could be
accommodated on the land.
They have been asked to forward business plans to the board's
meeting at Waikouaiti on January 26.
"We need two firm proposals sitting in front of us," Mr
Collings said.
Negotiations had been ongoing for 12 months without solution.
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