A proposal to expand an Outram subdivision to 41 lots on the site of a former market garden has been rejected by a Dunedin City Council hearings committee. Balmoral Developments Ltd’s application for resource consent to build a 15-lot residential development on rural zoned land at 94 Holyhead Rd in Outram, has been declined. The hearings committee of commissioners, chairman Matthew McCallum-Clark, Rosalind Day-Cleavin and Cr Andrew Whiley found the resource consent application was not consistent with the council’s district plan after a hearing was held last month. In May, the company was granted consent for a 26-lot subdivision next to the proposed development. Under the council’s district plan, residential development on sites less than 15ha is a non-complying activity.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 30, 2017 16:07 UTC