Moo-ves afoot for bovine rd

Consultation with the local Iwi has been undertaken in the road naming process. Photo / Ben Fraser

A farmer selling off his land for a housing development wants to call the street Cash Cow Rd. And approval seems likely.

The road is being created as the result of a farmland subdivision near Warkworth. The farm's owner, Glen Ashton, came up with the unusual name.

Rodney Local Board is expected to sign off the moniker when it meets tomorrow. Council documents say local government has no beef with the idea and recommends the local board approve the new road name.

"The proposed road name for the new road is Cash Cow Rd to be associated with the current owner (Cash Cow Limited) who has owned and farmed the land for the last 15 years," the council agenda states.

"The LINZ [Land Information New Zealand] database has been examined and the chosen names are unused and unique."

Two alternatives - Beef Hill Road and Cow Hill Road - have also been floated. Maori equivalents have already been put out to pasture.

"Consultation with the local Iwi has been undertaken in the road naming process. Iwi representative Haahi Walker from Ngati Whatua o Kaipara has not given support for the use of Maori names," council says.

Ashton said he was "sort of under a bit of a non-disclosure agreement with the council on some issues with the subdivision" but did explain how the road came about.

"It's only a short road to service a rural subdivision that was done in exchange for bush and wetland planting to stop erosion on the farm," Ashton said.