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Auckland Council, via its property arm Panuku Development, has taken a further step towards selling properties it owns on Whangaparāoa Road.
It owns 23 properties that extend from just past D’Oyly Drive around the corner into Brightside Road. Their potential sale was revealed in Hibiscus Matters, in 2019.
The properties were originally purchased under the Public Works Act for safety work, including road widening, by the former Rodney District Council, between 1997 and 2000. Because the land was not used for this purpose, before the properties can be put on the market, Panuku must try to locate the former owners (or their successors) and offer them the chance to buy the land back. Owners of 10 of the sites have been contacted, and owners are sought for a further nine.
The former owners are: Rosemary Martha Meek; Mary Patricia Cavell; Kent Woodward La Rue and Janice Mary Barlow; Bernice Adelaide Evans; Noleen Alice Walker, Collin George and Allan Dyson; Lyall David and Christine Martin; Norma Valerie Revell, Brendan Ronald Thickpenny; Ronald Frederick and Verna Doreen Pilbrow.
Panuku has set a deadline for contact to be made before July 9, after which the properties can be put on the market. They are zoned Residential Single House, but because most are adjoining, local board members fear they could be amalgamated by a developer, impacting a difficult stretch of road.
Backstories, localmattersne.wpengine.com May 8, 2019, June 17 and November 4, 2020
