The Environment Court has rejected a proposal to rezone part of the Pūkaki Peninsula.
Farmland in the heart of south Auckland will remain a green idyll after the Environment Court dashed the hopes of the landowners to rezone it.
A group of farmers and landowners had sought to overturn an Auckland Council decision rejecting their proposal to expand the Rural Urban Boundary and the Future Urban Zone across more than 83 hectares of land near Auckland Airport.
But after bouncing between the Environment Court and High Court over the last four years, the quest to overturn the decision was rejected in an Environment Court ruling at the end of last year.