More industrial land needed for jobs and growth, Mayor says

Warkworth needs new jobs as well as houses. Inset, Wayne Brown. You can’t have the massive growth planned for Warkworth without jobs, and communities and local government need to start saying no to developments that don’t include commercial and industrial land. That was the message from Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown when he visited Warkworth last month for the Northern Action Group (NAG) annual meeting on April 28, which focused on how growth should be managed. “Where you’re going to have growth, you’ve got to have jobs,” he said. “Beachlands (south east of the city) had a very big developer out ...