By Lindy LairdOpposition noise is building against construction of a commercial wharf at a quiet Opua bay. Opua residents want plans for a commercial wharf, sea dredging and heavy traffic access to a small bay on the Waikare Inlet scuppered. Local residents who want to stop the small bay being converted into a commercial site say they support the Vintage Railway plans. The Save Our Beach group is concerned about the lumping together of the Vintage Railway's plan with the unrelated commercial wharf in the same resource consent. The commercial wharf plan could also sink longer-term tourism proposals, including a jetty at the small headland on the north side of the beach to berth the Minerva steamship, the group said.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 16, 2016 22:31 UTC