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Post by kiwiruna on Sept 5, 2019 16:41:33 GMT 12
Hi Guys
Would be great but I'll bet Dollars to donuts the neighbours will kick up a hell of a stink, and it not be worth the hassle.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 5, 2019 17:10:29 GMT 12
This old story again.... It won't happen. Before it had any chance of becoming a useful airport Labour will cut it all up for housig first, whih is their ultimate goal.
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Post by saratoga on Sept 5, 2019 17:14:24 GMT 12
Come on Dave, Labour will do nothing about housing.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 5, 2019 17:15:54 GMT 12
You're probably right about that but they'll still carve up the land into little tiny pockets so it's no good as an airfield if they had their way.
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Post by pjw4118 on Sept 7, 2019 12:48:27 GMT 12
Having been involved last time ( I am a local resident and support a regional airport next door ) the greatest opposition will come from a company you will never see object , the Auckland International Airport. Three quarters overseas owned, they have made squillions from land taken under the Public Works Act for an airport , yet today most of that land is retail and warehousing. So they will Lobby unseen , and fund numerous societies with cute names and show approach paths , normally wrong , that will upset not just the Whenuapai residents but all of North Shore and west Auckland causing noise , shadows and potential for disaster as airliners plummet from the sky.
Common sense and a quick look overseas will show that Whenuapai its a perfect to develop , but such sense is lacking in most levels of Government whether it be an airport or which road to seal.
The previous Labour Government stole Hobsonville , the current one is trying to do the same with the Bomb Point reserve and sadly it is so inept that they will never decide on a regional airport without years of reports and consultations . Better Air NZ buys the coastal forest at Muriwai and build anew in the sand dunes . Oh I forgot , thats home to the endangered lupin flea and theres a bombing range close by.
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Post by madmax on Sept 7, 2019 19:27:40 GMT 12
Just as well all those noise-abatement,tree-hugging, mamby-pamby scare mungery lobby groups were not around in the 1950s otherwise Wellington International would never have been developed. In the area where the Air New Zealand (NAC) hangar is built were pristine sandhills and a frog pond. I spent many hours playing there while Tiger Moths and Herons buzzed overhead.
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Post by madmac on Sept 7, 2019 19:52:26 GMT 12
The alternative would be to wait till Auckland airport builds the 2nd runway and then have the commerce commission require them operate each runway as a separate entity.
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Post by oj on Sept 7, 2019 20:29:24 GMT 12
Forget all this beforehand.
The answer is to get Hamilton back up to international status again.
The Waikato Times today reports at least one prospective councillor is going to push for that.
I hope it comes off.
The millions that all the people south of the Bombay Hills right down to Taupo and coast-to-coast, spend on getting overseas from Auckland is a huge hole in our regional economy.
The respective share-holder local councils that own Hamilton airport lost their nerve a few years back and let it slip away through a mealy-mouthed attitude.
I regard that as being morally indefensible.
Look, the projected increase of Hobbit tourism to Matamata is ramping up so quickly that alone would pay a substantial amount.
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