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Christel Yardley/Stuff That’s something Raglan man Chris Rayner said won t work. “Waikato District Council has done nothing to discourage people from crossing the landing zone, and now they just want to lock us out,” Rayner told the Infrastructure Committee. The council’s proposals include removing the pedestrian access gates at the airfield and building a 1.2 metre fence.
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The current signs at the airfield. Rayner, a Raglan Community Board member, said they want to trial a 40-metre barrier, with signs, directing people to avoid the specific runway zone. The rest of the airfield could be used safely, as locals had been doing for decades.