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The writer is an architect. WHENEVER Karachi floods, the government announces the widening of its nullahs that carry the floodwater to the sea. The decision of the extent of widening is taken in an ad hoc manner. As a result of recent decisions, 5,916 houses along Gujjar nullah, 1,049 along Mehmoodabad nullah, and 992 along Manzoor Colony nullah are to be demolished apart from commercial units. The affectees are not being allocated land or funds for rehabilitating themselves and are becoming homeless, having been declared encroachers by the judiciary in Pakistan. Affected communities argue that their encroachments are just one of the reasons why Karachi floods. Other reasons are that the nullahs are choked and as such cannot function to capacity, inevitably flooding the areas through which they pass. Communities also claim they have paid corrupt government officials for the land they sit on and in addition paid billions of rupees for legal electricity, gas and municipal connection

'Stupid and inconsistent': Urban sprawl set to swallow 31,000 hectares of prime land

Stupid and inconsistent : Urban sprawl set to swallow 31,000 hectares of prime land 9 Feb, 2021 06:09 AM 4 minutes to read The Environment Court last month rejected a proposal to re-zone part of the Pūkaki Peninsula near Auckland International Airport. Photo / Auckland Council Other By Stephen Forbes, Local Democracy Reporter Urban sprawl looks set to eat up to 31,270ha of Auckland s most productive land over the next 35 years. And, according to figures included in a recent Environment Court decision, the irreversible, cumulative loss of Auckland s prime horticultural land is accelerating. 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 83ha of land near Auckland Airport. But last month the Environment Court rejected the landowners plans to rezone the land.

After 'recent near-misses', toxic waste to be removed from old Mataura Paper Mill site

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High Court rules consents for agricultural conversion a discretionary activity at Mackenzie station

LINZ Simons Pass Station will need to apply for a discretionary activity consent to carry out direct drilling and irrigation. A farm owner in the Mackenzie District will no longer fight an Environment Court ruling upheld in a High Court decision which environmental advocates say could mark the end of dairy expansions in the basin. In the High Court decision released last week, Justice Robert Osborne upheld the Environment Court’s ruling that the Mackenzie District Council had full discretion to reject or grant a consent application filed by the owner of Simons Pass Station to undertake irrigation and direct drilling for agricultural conversion.