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The Detail podcast hears how decades after the last big company town was built, Kiwi bed manufacturer Sleepyhead is pouring new life into the concept. In May, a panel of independent commissioners decided in favour of rezoning the 176 hectares of farmland, but that decision now faces a delay in the latest appeals. Waikato Chamber of Commerce chief executive Don Good said the regional council’s appeal looked like “nitpicking”. “The business community has had a bit of a gutsful of councils using bureaucracy to slow progress down when we live in a country that needs housing, that needs infrastructure, and we needed it yesterday,” Good told