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All good, thanks to Martyn and TD B for bringing this. Geoff, your comments re Sandringham are not correct and appropriate, it is NOT that nice centre with all these restaurants and so you talk about, it is a tiny suburb, I bused through it today, it remains to be DEPRESSING.
Penny is right re the corruption, all those in the Independent Hearing Panel, perhaps except the Judge, were consultants who have repeatedly worked for Council and private businesses, who all submitted to the so called Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan. They showed their pro private enterprise and business and developer bias by the recommendations they made to Council.
Councillors adopted it, all in their majority very mindful of business, not so much the citizens.
Mt Albert is important, Julian Genter does not convince, nor does Geoff Simmonds, more so the others, but they will be marginalised by media. Why is La bour’s candidate shying away, obviously shying away from takin g a clear position, another thumb down for Labour, who are not to be trusted, in my view.