[2018] NZEnvC 131 Grattan Investments Limited v Waikato District Council [pdf, 18 MB]
...a 6-lot subdivision and associated, albeit restricted, residential development could be located in this part of the Tamahere Country Living zone with relatively minor adverse visual and landscape effect over and above that generated by a fully permitted, - complying 4-lot subdivision. In that regard the context of SH1 is significant. [10] The landscape experts for both the Council and the appellant have agreed that the visual and landscape character effects would be no different to...