The Exclusive Brethren Church wants to set up its new home on a rural Papakura road but residents are vowing to fight it.
Council hearings start tomorrow to decide whether to grant a resource consent for the church, under the name of the Papakura Gospel Hall Trust, to build a 788-seat building at the end of Park Estate Rd.
Parking for 204 cars, or 181 cars and nine buses, and seating for up to 950 people are planned for the 1.2 hectare site, as well as 8 metre-tall floodlights, soundproof boundary walls and a stormwater treatment pond to discharge into the estuary.