Catholic Church land - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:38:00 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Catholic Church land - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 How the Church came to own properties in Manly https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/07/15/how-the-church-came-to-own-properties-in-manly/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:59:50 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=173220

The first plans for British settlement in Manly, NSW, Australia, emerged in the 1820s following the acquisition of land from the local Gayemagal people. A smallpox outbreak at the end of the 18th century severely reduced their population, paving the way for the British settlement. Around 1850, the NSW Legislative Council granted the Catholic Church Read more

How the Church came to own properties in Manly... Read more]]> The first plans for British settlement in Manly, NSW, Australia, emerged in the 1820s following the acquisition of land from the local Gayemagal people. A smallpox outbreak at the end of the 18th century severely reduced their population, paving the way for the British settlement.

Around 1850, the NSW Legislative Council granted the Catholic Church sixty acres on North Head in Manly. At the end of the 18th century, the Anglican Church had already been granted a swathe of dispossessed land in what is now Glebe, in the city's inner west, originally home to the Gadigal people.

Upon receiving the land, the Church embarked on a significant development project. They constructed the castle-like St Patrick's Seminary, now part of St Patrick's Estate, on the headland's peak. Subsequently, they subdivided and leased the remaining land. In its 2013 environmental management plan, the estate said "most of the land to the east and north" of the Seminary had been sold on a "long leasehold basis",

Leaseholders have the right to sell their leases to another party at any time. However, the buyer must be willing to pay the current lease price and the cost of renewing the lease when it expires. Read more

How the Church came to own properties in Manly]]> 173220 New Plymouth ratepayers could pay Catholic Church nearly $2m for land council has rented for $1 a year since 1984 https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/02/10/new-plymouth-catholic-land/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 06:54:43 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=143432 New Plymouth ratepayers might have to pay the Catholic Church nearly $2 million for a Bell Block section for which they have paid just $37 in rent since 1984. The Wynyard St section, which is occupied by pensioners in nine separate flats and has been independently valued at $1.95 million, has been rented by the Read more

New Plymouth ratepayers could pay Catholic Church nearly $2m for land council has rented for $1 a year since 1984... Read more]]> New Plymouth ratepayers might have to pay the Catholic Church nearly $2 million for a Bell Block section for which they have paid just $37 in rent since 1984.

The Wynyard St section, which is occupied by pensioners in nine separate flats and has been independently valued at $1.95 million, has been rented by the New Plymouth District Council for just $1 annually since the church signed a 40-year lease in 1984.

With the lease about to expire, the council approached the church about the land's future.

Instead of carrying on the lease for the council-built flats, the church offered a land swap - Wynyard St for the Powderham St car park opposite its New Plymouth cathedral - with $250,000 added on. Read more

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