Synlait Supreme Court hearing on Pokeno underway

Synlait Supreme Court hearing on Pokeno underway
Rebecca Howard
Covenants over part of Synlait Milk's Pokeno site have been overtaken by the area's development into a commercial hub, the company told the Supreme Court today. The restrictions the covenants impose on the site of the firm's $260 million dairy factory are unjustified given the degree to which the nature of the area has changed since the covenants were initially imposed in 1998 and 2000, Julian Miles, QC, said in his opening address. “The neighbourhood and the use of the land has fundamentally changed over the past 20 years. The original p...

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