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Speaker 1: Despite the opposition, Auckland Council is pressing ahead with its

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Speaker 1: plans to chop Takapoona golf course in half. They're going

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Speaker 1: to keep nine holes and turn the rest into a

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Speaker 1: wetland to prevent future flooding. Phil Jagged from Takapuna Golf

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Speaker 1: Club meet with council earlier and is with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, how Phil, Hi, Heather, how's it going? I'm well,

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Speaker 2: thank you. Are you going to accept this or are

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Speaker 2: you going to fight this?

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Speaker 3: We're going to take a step back and take a

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Speaker 3: moment to digest this information. A council has stated that

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Speaker 3: they will be proceeding with their wetland and right attention

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Speaker 3: area and that no further alternatives are being considered.

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Speaker 2: What does the local community think?

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Speaker 3: So the local community is obviously there's been some opposition

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Speaker 3: to the removal of the golf course, but this is

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Speaker 3: what we've been trying to do is create a creative

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Speaker 3: solution to the climate challenge, resolve the flooding issues, protect

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Speaker 3: houses and so forth, but also protect the trees and

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Speaker 3: natural environment and obviously protect our community assets. So that's

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Speaker 3: what we put together with a proposal. Now council has

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Speaker 3: advised us that the Local Board in October and November

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Speaker 3: this year, they will be going out for consultation on

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Speaker 3: the recreational use for a F. Thomas Park, and that's

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Speaker 3: where we'll have an opportunity to put forward at our

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Speaker 3: golf proposal.

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Speaker 2: Now, your proposal, this is the one that record in

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Speaker 2: which you plan to drain the floodwater into Shoal Bay.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that one has been rejected by council. But

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Speaker 3: the original proposal that we put on the table was

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Speaker 3: working with the council landform to create to maintain aiding

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Speaker 3: holes while we still have the wetland and the engineera,

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Speaker 3: so that was still on the table. What we will

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Speaker 3: do now is we've got some further information from Council

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Speaker 3: in terms of their design from that from their feasibility report,

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Speaker 3: so we can have a look in greater detail at

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Speaker 3: that and obviously when this consultation process goes through the

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Speaker 3: local Board after the elections, will go and be part

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Speaker 3: of that process.

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Speaker 1: Phil. Is it true that the reason that they rejected

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Speaker 1: the Shoal Bay plan was because they plan to save

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Speaker 1: Shoal Bay for a possible third harbor crossing for Auckland.

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Speaker 3: We understand that is possibly one of the reasons why.

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Speaker 3: So there is they say that to you. So there

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Speaker 3: is a second harbor crossing in terms of tunnel alignments

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Speaker 3: in the vicinity. So that is an area that you

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Speaker 3: know you do not want stormwater pipes clashing with the

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Speaker 3: tunnel for the third harbor crossing and we understand that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Phil, this listen, thanks very much, best of luck

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Speaker 1: with everything. It's Phil Jagged take a Puna Golf Club spokesperson.

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