[2018] NZEnvC 012 Mt Wellington Highway Ltd & Jaafar Holdings Ltd v Auckland Council [pdf, 879 KB]
...for the Council to compulsorily acquire its interests; (c) the Council had given inadequate consideration to alternative methods of achieving its objective; and in particular (d) the proposed taking rendered neugotary the exercise of a land use consent granted in 2009; (e) development options were so severely affected by the proposed taking that development of the land for commercial purposes was uneconomic and unfeasible; and (f) the balance of the land after the proposed takin...