PHOTO: KEVIN STENT/STUFF Shelly Bay in Wellington is a former Air Force base.
Shelly Bay is go, putting Wellington’s new council between a rock, a hard place, and Sir Peter Jackson.
The $500 million development on the western edge of the Miramar peninsula was on Thursday granted resource consent by independent commissioners under special housing legislation, which allows for more-intensive housing than Wellington’s district plan.
But developer Ian Cassels, who already owns much of the land at Shelly Bay, is not counting his chickens yet.
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