SKP chairman David Baigent said the outcome was “disappointing”. “For over a decade the community of Waiheke have said that they do not want a marina – that it isn’t good for the environment, the Hauraki Gulf eco-system or mana whenua.”
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The Supreme Court has declined SKP’s bid for the case to be reheard. SKP’s case for a rehearing was based on the argument mana whenua of Waiheke Island had not been appropriately heard from because Ngāti Pāoa Trust Board was not consulted. Danella Roebeck, co-chair of the Ngāti Pāoa Trust Board, said “as tangata whenua of Waiheke, the Trust Board, on behalf of Ngāti Paoa, expresses its strong opposition to the Kennedy Point marina”.
Mainfreight founder Bruce Plested battling Waiheke Island marina development
5 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Project director Tony Mair discusses the Kennedy Point Marina. Video / Kennedy Point Marina
Plans to develop Waiheke Island s first marina are opposed by Māori as well as rich-lister Bruce Plested, chairman and founder of Mainfreight with a $6.8 billion market capitalisation. It s a disgrace, a kind of madness, quite extreme. It s grotesque if you see what they re trying to do, Plested said of Tony Mair s 186-berth marina proposal for Putiki Bay, Kennedy Point.
Ngāti Pāoa iwi members have also been camping at the site where Mair s business began development in early March. Those iwi members are also vowing to stop the scheme, citing the kaupapa of the moana.