‘Answer Our 10 Questions’ – Challenge To Airport Developer

The Paraparaumu Airport Coalition is challenging the airport’s new owner, Aucklander Noel Robinson, to provide definite ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers to ten key questions.

The Coalition convenor, Cr Alan Tristram, says these are questions that are in the forefront of people’s minds.

So far, Cr Tristram says, Mr Robinson has failed to give clear and unequivocal answers to many questions.

“Now is his chance.” Cr Tristram says “We are only too willing to work with him if he can give us straight answers to the 10 straight questions.”

Cr Tristram says Coalition members ask Mr Robinson to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the following:

1. Do you, or do you not plan to close down the East/West runway at its present site?

2. Do you recognise the fact that the Kapiti Aero Club, the Coalition and many of the public demand that the East/West runway is retained at its present site?

3. You say you want full Iwi support for your plans. Do you recognise Mr Peter Love as the representative of the former Maori landowners?

4. Have you got Mr Love’s agreement for your plans?

5. You told a meeting of the KCDC last year that you would go on talking to local people until you got 100 per cent approval for your plans. Do you recognise that you have failed to do this?

6. Because there is widespread opposition to your plans in their present form, are you willing to postpone your application for a District Plan change at the airport?

7. Are you willing to front up to a public meeting to answer public concerns about development plans and the loss of even more ‘open space’?

8. Are you or your agents lobbying in Parliament about Mr Darren Hughes’ Airport Authorities Amendment Bill?

9. You said last year that airport fees are far tool high. In the year since you bought the airport have you cut these fees?

10. Do you recognise that massive development and the creation of several thousand jobs will mean traffic chaos and a major loss of valuable Open Space in the heart of Kapiti?

Cr Tristram says all the questions can be quite simply answered with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and the public deserves this respect from the developers before another huge area of open space is lost in the heart of Kapiti.