A planned Environment Court hearing on Dunedin's stadium was cancelled yesterday, meaning all appeals against district plan and roading changes to allow the project to go ahead have been dropped, and no costs will be pursued.
Stop the Stadium announced this week it had dropped its appeals, days before preliminary hearings were to begin.
The group's president, Bev Butler, claimed the cost of the appeal would have been at least $200,000, making it imprudent to continue.
Port Otago's property division, Chalmers Properties, had earlier appealed the notice of requirement for roading changes in the area, but later dropped its appeal.
An Environment Court spokesman said earlier this week the court would meet yesterday to see if the Dunedin City Council would be applying for costs from Stop the Stadium, but yesterday he said the hearing had been cancelled, and files relating to the case had been closed.
"There are no cost issues between any of the parties."
