The owners of Pokeno said to shell out for retrospective resource consents

CHRISTEL YARDLEY / STUFF

The owners affected are, from left to right, Cara Watson, Jasmine Crosbie with Mason Parsons, 18 months, and her partner Joshua Parsons, Phill Crosbie, Paige Collins and Lynne Collins.

Landlords were asked to shell out thousands to obtain retrospective resource consents after what they say is a council yawn.

The Waikato District Council warned four Pokeno landowners that they are too close to a global mining area and must apply for resource approvals before their homes can be declared. legal.

Despite the fact that the four houses got the full construction agreement and the final certificate of conformity when they were built less than two years ago.

And although the council said to the four […] ", that means that houses can not be easily sold because there is a cloud over titles.

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The Council had no problem two years ago when its own building was built, said Joshua Parsons, owner of one of the four affected homes and spokesmen for the four.

should pay money for board mistake.

This was a classic case of big guys trying to bully the little guys, said Parsons, who hired a lawyer and filed an official complaint against the council.

Poken o, once a sleepy hamlet nestled between Waikato and Auckland, has become a sprawling city with new buildings and businesses.

When Parsons obtained consent for the subdivision of family lands in 2015, the extraction area was not used. It was used as farmland.

He was informed by the surveyors at the time of the area of ​​extraction, but they said that no signature of the owner of the adjacent lands would be necessary.

"The Council agrees with that, there was no activity, so no further action was necessary," Parsons said. "We did sign, paid [Waikato District Council] the $ 17,000 in administration and contribution fees."

Two year advance and McWatt Group Ltd purchased the surrounding land and applied for a land use permit for a clean site for filling and crushing concrete. This consent has not yet been formally granted.

Nine months after the application, the council notified the four owners of the alleged violation, Parsons said.