24 December 2004

Independent commissioner gives Ferrymead Tavern site green light

The resource consent application for a 14-storey office block on the Ferrymead Tavern site has been allowed to proceed without public notification by an independent commissioner.

The commissioner found that the environmental effects of the matters that breach the Council’s City Plan (vehicle access and parking layout) are less than minor. Furthermore, the recommendation that the resource consent be granted has been approved.

The commissioner was not able to take into account other issues such as the bulk or height of the building (the structure complies with the City Plan rules) as his discretion is restricted to the matters of non-compliance only.

A full copy of the report and decision is available from the Linwood Service Centre.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>