The Warehouse has opened a new store in Royal Oak. Photo / Dexter Murray
Retailer The Warehouse has hit back at accusations it demolished a historic textile building and chopped down protected trees.
A spokesperson for the retailer said the old building on the site of a new store at 100 Pah Rd in Royal Oak had no standing as historic and although trees were removed, they were done so for good reasons and extensive landscaping had been completed.
When permission was sought to develop the site, Clare Covington of planning consultant Harrison Grierson told Auckland Council a historic industrial building once occupied by Alliance Textiles was on the land.
The distinctive block had also been a gymnasium, office, and an education facility, Covington said, recommending against permission to develop a new store.