Howick and Pakuranga Howick Village Market A NAME YOU CAN TRUST! Thursday, June 14, 2018
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Vol 47, No 24
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‘Here’s to you Bindy’
Bo Burns and her niece Anika-Jane Aramanu Mitchell at Sunday’s Memorial Netball Tournament for Belinda-Jane (Bindy) Burns at Howick Pakuranga Netball Courts.
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Struan Place ‘destroyed’ By THERESE HENKIN
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he residents of Struan Place are protesting a possible housing development which will leave their small street over-crowded. Residents have already had to contend with an overbearing development in the street and don’t want to see any further demolition or building. The street’s homeowners have had to watch the sale of 2 Struan Place which has since had the original home knocked down and devel-
oped into two three-storey terraced houses, which is allowed by the Auckland Unitary Plan’s mixed housing urban zone. The development has taken a significant toll on the neighbourhood with the two new houses blocking the neighbours’ street view and sunlight and invading their privacy, residents say. There have also been concerns over unsafe building practices, noise and overcrowding. When 3 Struan Place was purchased by another developer, with
the intention to develop the land into three-level high density housing, frustration boiled over. Maree Harman, a long-time Struan place resident, says they are feeling hopeless after the owners of the property next door to 3 Struan Place felt pressured to sell their property to the same developer. When the sale goes unconditional on July 31 this year, the developer will own the neighbouring properties 3 and 5 Struan Place, she says. “What we have heard is that he
plans to build up to six three-storey terraced houses here or sell the land to somebody else who will and our street just isn’t big enough,” Harman says. She says if the development goes ahead it will bring the total number of three-storey terraced houses to eight. The two properties have already been listed with Ray White Flat Bush, which advertised it as potential building development, she says. “Potential to propose 3 level high density housing, similar construc-
tion project has already started on the same street,” the listing states. The street only has 10 plots of land, all of which either have only one house on it or a house and a small granny flat. “We have one of, if not the smallest street in Highland Park. I just don’t think if somebody from council who was signing off on these consents visited our street would reasonably be able to say our street can sustain such large developments,” she says. ➤ Turn to Page 3
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