Te Awa Lakes a good fast-track candidate

Te Awa Lakes a good fast-track candidate
The proposed Te Awa Lakes project is north of Hamilton. (Image: Supplied)
Maria Slade
As the Government put the final touches on its Fast-track Approvals Act late last year, homes at one of the 149 developments where the legislation anoints for supercharging were already being offered for sale.The law creating a one-stop regime to speed up large infrastructure and development projects was introduced to Parliament under urgency last March and was enacted on December 23.Yet in late November, the Perry family began marketing homes off the plans at Te Awa Lakes, its 90-ha, master-planned lifestyle development north of Hamilton.You m...

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