Major plan change thrown out by council

The proposed plan change area outlined in red. The seemingly unstoppable train of development around Warkworth came to an abrupt halt last week, when Auckland Council threw out a private plan change application that would have meant almost 2500 new homes on Paddison Farm, opposite Te Honohono ki Tai (link) Road. Mayor Wayne Brown led the charge against retirement home provider Arvida’s plans to rezone 140 hectares off Matakana Road for mixed housing, including 29 hectares currently classed as highly productive rural land, near Warkworth Golf Club. He said the scale of the proposal was “ridicul...