PHOTO: KEVIN STENT/STUFF Shelly Bay in Wellington is a former Air Force base.

Shelly Bay is go, putting Wellington’s new council between a rock, a hard place, and Sir Peter Jackson.

The $500 million development on the western edge of the Miramar peninsula was on Thursday granted resource consent by independent commissioners under special housing legislation,  which allows for more-intensive housing than Wellington’s district plan.

But developer Ian Cassels, who already owns much of the land at Shelly Bay,  is not counting his chickens yet.

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