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| Julian Batchelor |
Last week Te Komiti o te Kaitiaki o Opourua urgently requested that the Far North District Council issue Mr Julian Batchelor with a Stop Work Notice effective immediately pending inquiries into breaches of bylaws and the Treaty of Waitangi, regarding work done without consent on land he occupies at Rawhiti, and the serious adverse effects of the breaches of the bylaws and unconsented works on the surrounding environment, and on the tangata whenua, our wahi tapu, and our whanau, hapu and iwi.
The Notice was duly issued by the FNDC and served on Mr Julian Batchelor last week and the komiti are currently awaiting the information that they have requested from the Far North District Council according to the Official Information Act, LGOIMA and other legislation, prior to convening a hui to discuss further action.
Correspondence regarding these requests is copied below: To be updated . . .
Email sent by te komiti o te Kaitiaki o Opourua to FNDC on 14 December -
Tena korua Wayne Smith and Sam Van Ameringen,
Mr Julian Batchelor was given until the 4/12/15 to provide the requested information relating to RC2160177. Additionally he was required to provide information by the 14 December 2015 relating to bylaw and building code breaches.
Has any of this information been provided? If so please provide copies of the information, and please provide all information previously requested, starting with the most recent information and working back, regarding the property Mr Batchelor occupies, and the road in the near vicinity, including the recent collapse of the road in front of 147 Rawhiti Road which we witnessed, all roading reports, photographs of the collapsed road, etc, the consents for the retaining walls, the original one and the replacement one, all other consents applied for whether approved or not, verbally or in writing, and all other information FNDC holds regarding the property at 147 Rawhiti Road.
Hapu can not make informed decisions in the complete absence of any relevant information, and we need to be sure about what has happened and when, and exactly how this situation has come about.
Please provide all information relating to the bylaw and building code breaches without further delay, in particular the information Mr Batchelor was required to provide by 14 December 2015, and all other information requested as soon as possible.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Na Katherine Raue
KaitiakI o Opourua
Far North District Council have confirmed as at 16 December none of the information Mr Batchelor was required to provide has been provided.
This post will be updated and prior emails published as well as updates.
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