Shelly Bay

 

PHOTO: FELIX DESMARAIS/STUFF The Shelly Bay site beside Wellington Harbour.

Wellington City Council is set to revisit one of its most contentious deals in years by reopening the decision to sell land at Shelly Bay.

Council chief executive Kevin Lavery on Tuesday night responded to a move by councillor Andy Foster and confirmed councillors would be able to vote again on the sale and lease of the land.

Foster had filed paperwork arguing that a Court of Appeal decision meant the Shelly Bay development no longer had resource consent, making the premise of an earlier decision by the council to sell and lease land there no longer wholly correct.

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