PHOTO: ADAM POULOPOULOS/STUFF – Murray Livingstone stands where Livingstone Gardens used to be – a site acquired by the Government to make way for the Kāpiti Expressway. (File photo)
His valuers claimed the New Zealand Transport Agency was offering less than a third of what his property was worth, so Kāpiti businessman Murray Livingstone took the agency to court – and got a settlement.
Livingstone has been locked in a valuation dispute for several years over the compulsory purchase of his land to make way for the $630 million Kāpiti expressway, which opened in early 2017.
Before the new road came along, he had run the Livingstone Garden Centre, on the corner of State Highway 1 and Poplar Ave in Raumati, north of Wellington, for almost two decades.
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