A company owned by property developer Shannon Tawhiti has been fined $14,000 after pleading guilty to illegally moving houses onto four Hastings sections. Photo / Duncan Brown.
A company owned by property developer Shannon Tawhiti has been fined $14,000 after pleading guilty to illegally moving houses onto four Hastings sections.
The sentence, in relation to a breach of the Resource Management Act, was imposed on SHT Holdings Ltd, trading as Relocate Homes NZ, by Judge Geoff Rea
in Hastings District Court this morning.
Earlier this month four charges laid against Mr Tawhiti were withdrawn and replaced with a representative charge against his company.
Mr Tawhiti outraged Mahora residents in January when he relocated three buildings on to a Totara St property in the suburb without the required consent, in a move which also violated housing density rules.
The council initially issued an abatement notice requiring the removal of the Totara St houses, but later granted resource consent and dispensation from density rules.
