No Resolution
4/05/2006 12:00:00 a.m.
Disputes over access to and parking on Taranaki Street Wharf continue to divide the rowing clubs and the groups that propose to develop the area, Wellington Waterfront Limited (WWL)
and the Tenth’s Trust.
THE clubs and the developers are still at loggerheads over the allocation of parking spaces for Star and Wellington Rowing Clubs, which the clubs feel should be increased while the Tenths and WWL believe should be decreased.
"We didn’t come to a conclusion," says Laurie Counsell, spokesperson for the rowing clubs, with reference to an April 11 mediated meeting.
Organised by the Environment Court, the meeting was part of the appeal process against conditions of the Resource Consent granted for the Wharenui at Taranaki Street Wharf.
"We discussed things for the
better part of the day but the meeting was adjourned to May 11," Counsell says.
The rowing clubs are concerned that the lack of parking will deter people from renting the function rooms at the clubs, and that there will not be parking for the club members who go there to train.
"The parks have to be there for rowing-related activities but they (WWL, the Tenth’s Trust) are trying to cut it back to less than we can manage," Counsell says.
In the Resource Consent Proposal, 30 parks (15 each) were allocated to the clubs which WWL and the Tenth’s Trust would like to see reduced to 22.
Ian Pike, CEO of Wellington Waterfront Limited, would not comment on the mediation process nor on what was discussed at the April 11 meeting.
"It is a little difficult to discuss the issues while in the negotiation process – lest it compromise the mediation phase," Pike says.
However Pike is confident that a resolution will be reached at the next meeting with the rowing clubs.
