Anthony Tosswill told the Otago Daily Times yesterday he was not prepared to discuss his hotel because of previous media coverage, which he claimed had turned the public against the project. Mr Tosswill said at the time he had "no choice" but to go back to the drawing board by developing a "whole new design". Mr McGowan said Mr Tosswill had been talking "positively" earlier in the year, and "hopefully that’s still the case". "But the reality is we haven’t heard [from Mr Tosswill], which is never a good sign," he said. His comments came after a panel of independent commissioners last year declined consent for an earlier hotel design, prompting Mr Tosswill’s appeal to the Environment Court.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 21, 2018 16:41 UTC