Showdown over green fairways looms for Coutts

Showdown over green fairways looms for Coutts
Russell Coutts at the NZ Open down the road at Millbrook Resort in 2017.
Paul McBeth
Champion sailor Russell Coutts and his family interests are set for a testy showdown centred on irrigating their private golf course near Arrowtown when it gets a public hearing next month.BSTGT, the trustee of Barley Station Glencoe Trust, is seeking to renew its water permits from two creeks on the Crown Terrace above Arrowtown and wants to amalgamate its four permits with the neighbouring McQuilkin family’s take.Their application to the Otago Regional Council has been changed several times since it was first submitted in April 2019, tw...

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