St Patrick’s Catholic Church Arrowtown - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sat, 02 Dec 2023 04:01:39 +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 St Patrick’s Catholic Church Arrowtown - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Court upholds decision against parish building https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/11/02/court-upholds-decision-against-parish-building/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:54:52 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=165759 The backers of the contentious Olive Leaf parish building proposed for Arrowtown have lost an Environment Court appeal, six years after applying for resource consent. The Olive Leaf Centre Trust appealed a decision by independent planning commissioners in 2020 turning down its proposal for a multipurpose parish and community centre on land beside the St Read more

Court upholds decision against parish building... Read more]]> The backers of the contentious Olive Leaf parish building proposed for Arrowtown have lost an Environment Court appeal, six years after applying for resource consent.

The Olive Leaf Centre Trust appealed a decision by independent planning commissioners in 2020 turning down its proposal for a multipurpose parish and community centre on land beside the St Patrick's Catholic Church in Hertford St.

After a week-long hearing in May, Judge Prudence Steven and commissioner Kathryn Edmonds released the decision on Monday.

It said the proposal would likely have significant adverse effects on the "openness and spaciousness" characteristic of the church's heritage values, and on the church's "primacy" on the site. Read more

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