“NOT ALL SOILS ARE BORN EQUAL” - Bay Buzz.

Jul 17

Written By Richard Gaddum

Our councils’ tortured effort to plan urban development.

By Mark Sweet, Bay Buzz, July + August 2025

Richard Gaddum talks to Mark Sweet about the 2025 Future Development Strategy outcome, and how the people in charge of these incredible precious soils at the two Hawke’s Bay City Councils, are continuing the same old rhetoric of destroying our highly productive land with concrete and asphalt.

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Richard Gaddum

The fertile soils on the Heretaunga Plains have spoken!

The Government as of today, is discarding LUC Class 3 soils for development