Post by Brent George on Mar 2, 2023 2:44:21 GMT
'Future slums' coming to your neighbourhood, residents' petition warns
Stuff - Business: 2-Mar-2023
A plan to bulldoze a block of pensioner flats for higher density townhouses has drawn criticism from angry neighbours worried about young couples and drugs.
A petition has been launched to stop Kāinga Ora’s development of 68 terraced houses and duplexes in Auckland’s Blockhouse Bay. It has 1183 signatories, several of whom called it a “future slum”.
“Neighbours will be unhappy as their views will be gone, there will be more noise and traffic, over-population and perhaps higher crime to a generally peaceful neighbourhood,” one commented.
The petition warned if townhouses could be built in Blockhouse Bay, “soon it will be happening in your neighbourhood”.
Stuff - Business: 2-Mar-2023
A plan to bulldoze a block of pensioner flats for higher density townhouses has drawn criticism from angry neighbours worried about young couples and drugs.
A petition has been launched to stop Kāinga Ora’s development of 68 terraced houses and duplexes in Auckland’s Blockhouse Bay. It has 1183 signatories, several of whom called it a “future slum”.
“Neighbours will be unhappy as their views will be gone, there will be more noise and traffic, over-population and perhaps higher crime to a generally peaceful neighbourhood,” one commented.
The petition warned if townhouses could be built in Blockhouse Bay, “soon it will be happening in your neighbourhood”.