AGM 2025 guest speaker – Simon Barber
Responding to requests from the wider Pukerua bay community, here are notes from the guest speaker portion of our latest AGM meeting.
Simon Barber, Pukerua Heights Residential Estate development manager for their current development off Muri Road.
Simon shared some slides of the Muri Road developments noting:
- Silt retention ponds to collect runoff which will make room for the entrance once finished. 144 sites in 6 stages as the market dictates.
- All the pine trees will be taken down.
- Top of stage one – pine trees out, platform for first sites. SNA is fenced off to protect the trees there. Once upper area stabilised the proper access area will be put in.
- Stage two the old woolshed and pine trees will be removed.
- Even though it’s hilly sections are benched out for the houses.
- When trees come down we grind the stumps and mulch the slash then use the mulch to stabilise the site and allow vegetation to grow through.
- Area above the site there is 50 hectares of native bush that PCC says has ecological significance. We want to bring development to the edge of it so people can access that block.
Questions from the floor:
(Community questions in bold, Simon’s answers in italic)
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