Wayne Brown: Auckland mayor condemns proposed residential development near Orewa

Auckland's mayor is calling a new residential development near Orewa a 'really dumb idea'.

The 1200-home Delmore housing project has been granted fast track approval.

Watercare has made it clear it can't connect services to the site before 2033, and potentially not until at least 2050.

Mayor Wayne Brown says the council will end up picking up issues with water and transport down the track.

"Four or five idiots in Wellington, who only someone in Wellington would call experts, are being able to make decisions for years to come - instead of the people who've been elected to run this city."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Together due to c Ellen.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Six number. You're welcome to away in Nichola. Willis, as
I say, is with us after six o'clock. Now, the
controversial Delmore development north of Auckland has been given fast
track approval. This is the twelve hundred house development that
has received a bit of criticism as it won't be
connected to the water network until at least twenty thirty three.
The fast Track panel has approved the development as long
as the developer, Vin Whey vine Way Rubber, can arrange

(00:26):
private water and wastewater services. Wayne Brown is Auckland's mayor
and with us high Wayne, you're not happy about this.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh, I'm not happy about just what you said before. Either.
The government will want to have rates caps and they've
earned you know, we're running a lot tighter than they are.
And will we increase the rates for us for the
city railingk which I would have been built Vitamin in charge.
It would have been two billion dollars cheaper and we
wouldn't have had to raise it by seven point nine

(00:54):
four point nine And you gave me over that too,
which is a bit rough. So I let you know,
I'm there's not a lot to be yeah, but not deservedly.
Somehow they mate. I mean, you compare how tight we
are on our budget keeping with how the government I've
been to put up with. These people are saying, oh,
you have a race cap, Well, how about a tax cap?

(01:15):
How about a buddy dead cap? How about all those
other caps yourself you could wear, okay, instead of wearing
a dummies cap, which is what they've put on for
this thing up north. I mean, you know a Surrea's
a subdivision which you truck the sewage to one or
a and then saying that they're going to do it
only in summer. So clearly people who buy those sections
are allowed to go to the toilet in winter. They're

(01:35):
disposing it to the ground. I've done disposal systems. I'm
an engineer, and it disposes of the ground work fine
in summer, but don't work at all in winter. So
it's more likely to be in winter that they'll be
sending the truckship crauckloads are crap north. And then when
I work out the cost of thirty forty three truckloads
of crap going north every day will cost each section

(01:58):
owner thirty five thousand dollars the year, I don't think
they're going to buy that for that. What will happen
is that they will do this stuff there and then
it'll be terrible and people say, oh, the councilor should
fix us. And so having said we shouldn't do it,
everyone will say, oh, why don't you spend a whole
lot of ratepayers money. I don't want to spend ratepayers
money on things that rate payers shouldn't be spending money on.

(02:19):
And so I'm really angry at the whole fast track thing,
not just this. This is just a really bad example
of it is a dumb idea. If you had fast track.
We had fast track for the port extension and for
that surf park of thinking. And they are fine because
they got stuck in straight away. This is fast track

(02:39):
when the guy got eight years to do anything about it.
What's fast about that? All that does is it means
that four or five idiots in Willington who only are
willing to be would call experts, are being able to
making decisions for years to come instead of the people
who have been elected to run the city and the
government are giving us lectures about, oh, we shouldn't have Marrias.
And the thing is that what about these people in

(03:01):
Wellington and what we want that estimates from the council
are that the by doing it this way here, these
developers are avoiding fifty to eighty million dollar million dollars
of infrastructure cross to make their development stack up. So
growth pace for growth, excepting it never does when you

(03:21):
have idiots in charge.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Okay, Now, why why aren't these guys digging the poo pipes? Now?
Because I mean, anybody who lives in a house needs
a pooh pipe, So why don't.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
They just way, They've got to go somewhere. It's got
to go somewhere. And water Care don't want to take
it because Watercare have a sensible plan to do things
where there is a need. And the other thing is
the idea that we need to be keep chopping up
crap farming for houses is nonsense. I run a developer
for them. All the developers come into this fact and
they're telling me that there are decades of land available

(03:52):
within the city. Now this is just some sort of
nonsense that somebody in Wellington has come up with it.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh ass wait, why doesn't Worldcare want to take it?
Is it because of the cost of the piping all
down all the way down.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Town because they spend a lot of money at the
moment doing things in a planned manner around where we
have planned for the city to go. And then some
guy buys a but a cheap shit land talk some
idiots in Willington to say go ahead, and then they say, oh,
we will go and spend one point two billion dollars
to service twelve hundred sections. It doesn't make any sense.

(04:25):
We don't do stupid ship and the government stopped doing.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, listen, Wayne, we'll leave it. There's awesome, Thank you
very much. What a way to start the week, Wayne Brown,
Auckland Mayor. We don't do stupid shit. If only that
was true, then we wouldn't have a lot of the
stupid decisions that we have all up and down the place. Okay, anyway.
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