[2018] NZEnvC 012 Mt Wellington Highway Ltd & Jaafar Holdings Ltd v Auckland Council [pdf, 879 KB]
...often oppose the taking of their land for reasons based on personal attachment which give rise to a sense of value based on their plans for their property as distinct from the intrinsic value of the land itself. I recognise that this is part of human nature and therefore to be expected. It forms part of the foundation for the principle that private interests in land are to be safeguarded by closer scrutiny of the basis for any proposed taking of those interests. It generates continu...