Former home of Picton rugby to become car park for trucks

PHOTO: Marlborough Sounds ward councillors, including David Oddie.

A truck park on green space in Picton has got the green light from locals, but it must look pretty.

Community consultation revealed more than 75 per cent of 119 residents wanted the truck park at Waitohi Domain, in order to rid nearby streets of parked trucks waiting for ferries.

The Marlborough District Council was divided over whether to rush through the project to get extra funding, or to stop and ask residents their opinion when the truck park was first floated in September.

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