The man behind a controversial development in Cable Bay hopes a meeting today will help clear up ``misinformation'' about the $50 million scheme.
Auckland-based Crystal Waters Ltd has consent from the Far North District Council for the apartment development.
But the plan has outraged many Cable Bay residents, who have rallied to
stop the development going ahead.
Locals have prevented further work on a footbridge across State Highway 10, linking the development to the beach.
But Crystal Waters director Chris Hook said a lot of misinformation had been spread about the development.
He hoped to ``correct'' that at a public/iwi meeting being held today at the Cable Bay reserve and continued at the Mangonui Hall.
The meeting is primarily to discuss stormwater concerns in the area. The stormwater from the condominium development will go through the public reserve.
``We will using this meeting as a means of trying to bring a bit of balance into the debate,'' Mr Hook said.
He said the bridge across the highway was not being built by Crystal Waters, but by McBreen Jenkins, which had the consent for the work.
``It will be a public bridge with access for all the public that goes through our land,'' Mr Hook said.
``The locals seem to think it is for our exclusive use, but it's not.''
He said the council requested that the development's stormwater be discharged through the reserve.
``We've got a $50 million development there. We are just going about our lawful business and we are going to get it finished.''
Meanwhile, Beach Watch Network, which is behind much of the opposition to the Crystal Waters Development, said it would mobilise if work on the overbridge restarted.
At a meeting on Friday the group also unanimously supported a motion for work on the whole development to be halted.
The motion cited several concerns, including the non-notifiable consent granted to the overbridge, iwi anxieties, environmental impacts, stormwater disposal and health and safety issues.
The next meeting of the Beach Watch Network will be at Cable Bay on April 6, unless work restarts on the bridge.
