Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 2 April 2013
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Fish & Chip shop’s $2000 table Owners of a fish and chip shop could be forced to pay more than $2000 a year in council fees after they attempted to upgrade their outdoor seating. Bruce Maxfield and Roy Gray, owners of the Sands Fish & Chip shop in Tahunanui, want to upgrade their current outdoor seating to offer two wooden picnic tables as permanent fixtures out the front of their busy takeaway shop. After seeking advice
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reporter@nelsonweekly.co.nz from Nelson City Council they were told that any outdoor seating needed to have consent as the property outside the space they lease is officially part of State Highway 6.
They received two proposals from the council with an option to place the tables directly in front of the entry to their shop at a cost of $960 plus GST per year or they could occupy a larger area at a cost of $2240 plus GST per year. The fact that they needed consent has come as a complete surprise to Bruce who says the current tables and chairs have been there for years without being paid for.
Karen Gill in her garden which has been recognised as a garden of “national significance”. Photo: Andrew Board.
“The last owner had chairs and tables out there for five years without having to pay a yearly fee, we just don’t understand why all of a sudden it’s an issue.” Bruce argues that having seating, tables, and plants, his shop and the neighbouring businesses are all aesthetically enhancing elements to the area and he doesn’t see
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Family garden rated ‘nationally significant’ Nelson’s Thackwood Garden has been awarded 5 stars and recognised as a “garden of national significance” by the New Zealand Gardens Trust. The rating places it in the same category as both Auckland Botanic Gardens and the Government House Gardens in Wellington. Nestled in a fourth generation, 300 acre farm, in Wakapuaka, it was Karen and Murray Gill’s love of the land that led to the development of a two-acre English cottage garden. The New Zealand Garden Trust inspects registered gardens every three years, assessing them on numerous factors including garden design, planting design, use of ornamentation, horticulture and maintenance. Kerei Thompson, chairman of the New Zealand Garden Trust, says that the trust’s main role is to foster regional networks of gardens that the public can visit. “We provide gardens with a mark of quality assurance, so that visitors can be sure if they’re making a trip to view a garden it’s going to be worth their
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