Lack of planning leaves locals paying price

Members of Mahurangi Community Planning Group paid for concept designs to illustrate alternatives to a proposed retirement complex on Bowls Warkworth land. Members of a Warkworth community group are literally putting their money where their mouth is in their determination to get proper town planning in place to cope with the glut of new development. Rodney Local Board heard last week that planners, engineers and economists on the Mahurangi Community Planning Group (MCPG) had already donated countless hours of time, energy and expertise on issues affecting Warkworth, most of which had been nece...