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There goes the neighbourhood

When Grey Lynn vicar Hugh Kempster learned his diminutive church was to be dwarfed by five-storey apartments, he appealed for reason. When that failed, he started stirring.

Thursday, November 06th 2003

For Kempster, attending to parishioners' spiritual concerns now extends to providing website updates on resource consent issues.

"We are helping Auckland City Council and property developers come to understand the depth of public opposition to recklessly placing the interest of big-money developments ahead of the good of the local community," Positively Grey Lynn's website proclaims.

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