Closure prompts packed meeting

The meeting at the Gulf Harbour Yacht Club was standing-room-only. The closure of Gulf Harbour Country Club (GHCC) last month brought hundreds of locals together at a public meeting last Wednesday night, to share concerns about the future of the prime 89 hectare property. Organised by the lobby group Keep Whangaparaoa’s Green Spaces (KWGS), the meeting followed a petition and appeals to Auckland Council to retain an encumbrance registered in 2006 that restricts for 999 years the use of the site “in its entirety solely as a golf course and country club”. Since the shutdown, local residents have...