Shelly Bay

 

PHOTO: KEVIN STENT/STUFF Shelly Bay, where Ian Cassels wants to put a $500m development.

If Shelly Bay doesn’t happen, Wellington will be $100 million poorer. If it doesn’t happen, Wellington will further behind. It it doesn’t happen, due process will be out the window.

But after delivering those messages to a Wellington City Council committee looking into Shelly Bay, developer Ian Cassels said it would happen – 100 per cent.

Over recent years, the Wellington developer’s name has been tied to the $500m development he wants to do at Shelly Bay in Miramar but the project has been bogged down in courts, hearings, public spats, and allegations the Maori land there was sold without many members of iwi’s okay.

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