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Gibbs is unsure when the decision will be made. The Pascoes could not be reached for comment.
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Landowners Tony and Debbie Pascoe have been ordered to pay costs in relation to a dismissed appeal to the High Court to stop the proposed $200 million Mt Messenger project going ahead. Poutama, which has unsuccessfully claimed to be tangata whenua, or kaitiaki (guardian) of the Mangapekepeke Valley - the route for the bypass – has been fighting against the project alongside the Pascoes, whose land the highway will pass over. Late last year, Poutama and the Pascoes made an unsuccessful bid in the High Court to overturn an interim Environment Court decision to allow construction of the bypass.
“Waka Kotahi and their contracted surveyors were not advised of the landowner’s illness until the day the survey was due to start,” a spokesperson for the agency said in an email. “On hearing about the landowner’s health, the decision was made to delay the survey by a day to give the landowner space to rest and recuperate.” The agency said the landowners were notified that the survey would begin on January 11 and take place over five days to establish the boundary of the land required for the bypass.
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The stoush over building the $200m Mt Messenger bypass continues.