When the pipes are rationed

Roger Partridge writes –

This week’s Herald reported the plight of an Ōrewa family hit with a 72% rates hike – more than $10,000 a year. The jump arises from rezoning, with new subdivisions now creeping up to their boundary. Yet Watercare has decreed the wastewater connection will not arrive until 2031 – leaving the land stranded and unsaleable. 

Bureaucratic sabotage

Ele Ludemann writes –

Alan Eggers, chief executive of Trans Tasman Resources (TTR)  in conversation with Leighton Smith:

. . . This is a major commercial project where we have invested over ninety million. I’m sorry, over eighty five million, nearly ninety million dollars and we are now being frustrated by a bunch of bureaucrats. . .