New Chum for Everyone

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TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

We the undersigned request that the House of Representatives oppose any development of the New Chum–Wainuiototo Beach and the surrounding area; and that it support the immediate establishment of a protected area in perpetuity, In which the landscape is left untouched in every way apart from restorative planting of kauri and other natives.

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2010-08-17 17:57:49Added on:

one year ago 

Linda Cholmondeley-Smith By:

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

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beach, coromandel, mercury bay, native, new chum, preservation

 

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30/9/11
New Chum for Everyone
Please do not donate to the New Chum cause as requested above. Petition Online are dubiously seeking funds for their own purpose, not Preserve New Chum for Everyone requesting funds.
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22/10/10
Jamie Marshall
I support this petition, and I want to add that I am from Canada (although a huge portion of my family does call New Zealand home). I've been travelling around New Zealand for the last 8 months, and had heard about New Chums beach well before I got here. New Chums Beach is consistently rated in the top beaches in the WORLD!! It will no longer have this status once it is developed. It would be a real shame for this to happen... houses visible from the beach will truly ruin the amazing atmosphere and ambience that exists on this very remote-feeling beach. Tourism and the associated revenue will lose out, a beautiful beach will be ruined, all so that a very small number of people can make some money. Is it really worth destroying something like this?
3/9/10
Ray Buckmaster
I would like to support this petition and add some personal comments. It is unfortunate that the TCDC district plan permits subdivision down to 600sq. m. plot sizes. New Chums is an outstanding example of the threats that exist to wild beaches in the Coromandel. The Upper Coromandel is, in many ways, a National Park in waiting, being exceptional in terms of landscape, diverse biomes and biodiversity. A move in this direction would promote the type of situation we find in Snowdonia National Park in the UK. People, landscape and the natural life it supports coexist and are all protected. There has to be a way of preventing the Queenslandisation of our valuable coastal strips. Waikawau Beach, a little further to the north,also an equally valuable site for NZ dotterel breeding, was bought by the then Govt. for the sum of $10 million when it was similarly threatened. New Chums could be bought, probably for a somewhat larger sum. Recent evidence would suggest that the current Govt. has little difficulty in finding the massively larger sum of $1.76 billion for other purposes!
The future of the Coromandel aligns very well with the Clean and Green image that we use to promote our nation overseas. We must not tarnish this image. Tourism is a major earner for the Coromandel and overseas trends make it obvious that one of the major growth areas in this industry is ecotourism. Let us not weaken our brand and turn these people away as a result.
The glaring anomaly in our planning regulations that existed at the time of the Waikawau purchase continues to present problems. New Chums, if it falls to the developers will signal open slather on other such beaches in the future. The country must purchase this land and then move to protect all other such sites within NZ.

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