Best of BusinessDesk: Maria Slade’s columns

Best of BusinessDesk: Maria Slade’s columns
Property editor Maria Slade has written some cracker columns this year. (Image: NZME)
Maria Slade
Govt riding roughshod over local council plans (First published Nov 11) A few weeks ago, concerned representatives of the Balmoral Residents Association met with their new(ish) MP, National’s Carlos Cheung.These good citizens are worried about the fate of Auckland’s ‘special character’ areas, the protective overlay the city’s Unitary Plan puts over certain areas where original turn-of-the-century villas and bungalows still dominate.The northern end of Cheung’s Mt Roskill electorate has a small cluster of thes...

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