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Riders are due to be in action over Easter at the Top of the South motocross champs in Motupipi, Golden Bay. (File photograph of another event)
Some residents of a Golden Bay settlement say they are shocked to hear of the planned return of a motocross event this weekend.
“It’s really noisy and horrible,” said resident Paddy Brennan, adding that she believed such events on the Harwood property off Packard Rd had been silenced permanently several years ago. “This just drags it all up again.”
Brennan was referring to a March 2012 letter from then Tasman District mayor Richard Kempthorne that says in part that “motocross events are ... effectively prevented from being held at that site”. That letter from Kempthorne came after the council obtained a legal opinion, which followed an Ombudsman’s finding on the long-running matter.