$623,000 for 30 Centimetres.
This is a story about a developer group who did not know enough about working close to power lines. Once they found out, they set about getting the right consents.
It was hard. They needed buffers and were not allowed to de-energise the lines. The result was horrendous delays, sunset dates under threat, large professional fees and financial damage that came at real personal cost to the people involved.
I wonder how many other parts of New Zealand have this problem. Better, earlier education, and the reasonable solutions the safety code already allows for, would help. Who in the regulatory space is looking into this?
To SANZ, this looks punitive.
