Seawall owners see red at board meeting

One of three Point Wells properties with a seawall built more than a decade ago, but without resource consent or landowner approval.
Landowners who built private seawalls on the Point Wells foreshore reserve without consent have voiced heated objections to Auckland Council suggestions that the structures be removed.
At a Rodney Local Board meeting on August 16, residents of two of the three properties, together with lawyers, coastal engineers, consultants and planners, made lengthy presentations. Board members were due to decide whether they should retrospectively grant or decline approval for...