Path plan ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’

Stan Armiger, left, with the anti-path petition and some of his fellow objectors outside Rodney Local Board’s Warkworth offices on March 19.

Controversial plans by Auckland Council to dig up 90 metres of the Snells Beach coastal walkway to encourage more shorebirds to roost roused passions at Rodney Local Board’s Warkworth HQ this month. Over 30 Snells residents gathered outside the Elizabeth Street offices on March 19 to present a petition with more than 700 signatures opposing the proposal. There were frustrations that not everyone could fit into the 16-seater board room for the presentatio...