Waitara Lands Bill passes Third Reading

[Brent George]

The New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Bill has passed its Third Reading and will become Law.
Taranaki News (Stuff) 13-Dec-2018

It will be interesting to monitor property prices and land development proposals in this location over the next few years.  
No doubt some local survey firms will have a responding increased workload....

[Brent George]

$17m community fund courtesy of land law starts to flow in Waitara
Stuff - Taranaki Daily News: 11-Nov-2022

More than $17 million dollars destined to be pumped into the Waitara community is starting to trickle out.

Four years after the New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Act became law in 2018, the first release of money from a community fund is becoming available to fund initiatives which benefit the town.

The community fund is one of a trio which benefits from land sale proceeds made possible by the Act, which was mooted to total about $90m.

The law allowed for 770 Waitara leasehold sections, originally confiscated off Manukorihi and Otaraua hapū and Te Atiawa in 1865, to be bought freehold, and at market value.