An Otago Peninsula landowner has been granted consent to subdivide his farmland and build four homes in an outstanding natural landscape area. Steven Clearwater said he was not surprised by the outcome, following a Dunedin City Council hearing last month. Mr Clearwater initially applied for consent for eight homes on the isthmus between Hoopers and Papanui Inlets, and on the northern slopes of Mt Charles. But he halved that number when the consent hearing began. "Everyone agrees what I have proposed is a far superior outcome in the long term for the landscape."

Source: Otago Daily Times April 06, 2017 18:11 UTC