Planned 15-storey apartment block waits on council's hearings committee

The Far North District Council's hearings committee was to consider on Monday whether to publicly notify South Pacific Apartments Ltd's resource consent application to build a 94-apartment complex on an 8200 square metre site next to the Paihia Beach Resort and the Nihonui Scenic Reserve.

In recommending public notification, the council's consents manager Pat Killalea said the applicant hadn't provided the council with sufficient information to enable it to determine whether the development would have only minor effects on the environment.

Mr Killalea said, until such effects were known, the council was not in a position to determine who may be adversely affected by the development.

"Given the likely impact of the development on users of the public road, foreshore and reserve areas within 50 metres of the subject site, special circumstances exist that warrant public notification of the application," he said.

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