Family home threatened if forced to remove sea wall

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Haumoana beach is rugged and beautiful. Yes, there's the coastal erosion problem but residents Tracy Oliver and Mark Lawrence just love the place.
Haumoana beach is rugged and beautiful. Yes, there's the coastal erosion problem but residents Tracy Oliver and Mark Lawrence just love the place.

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17 Mar 2010 11:34a.m.

Tracy Oliver wrote:

The wall is on our private property. We have just had the biggest swells here in twelve years and the wall hasn't moved an inch. No scouring ever. Neighbours and our house protected and lots of shingle still. Everything the councils "so called experts from Auckland" have said is doing the complete opposite. Council still hasn't made decision as to wether we can keep wall. They just costing us a fortune having to jump through hoops.

27 Jul 2009 11:14p.m.

John wrote:

This wall may protect the property, but will cause major loss of amenity of the beach due to loss of sand by scouring at base of wall. The council will be concerned also at "end wall effects" at either side of wall. We at Waihi Beach are fighting our council which wants to build a rockwall which will destroy the beach in front, for ever. Any walls built should be backstop walls, placed behind dune area and buried. Then dune allowed to build up in front. The new coastal policy will prohibit hard walls on beaches unless on private property. I wonder whether this wall at Haumoana is on private property. If not, then Tracy and Mark will have a hard job to keep it. But they should seek legal advice, particularly if they have the usual building acts on their title. There are different interpretations of these acts.
John Watt

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