Jamie Cleine: Buller Mayor on the plans to move the town of Westport

Westport residents have been berating their council over a plan to move the flood-prone town. 

Draft master planning began in 2023 on a proposal to move to Government-owned Pamu-Landcorp farmland southwest of the current settlement. 

Buller Councillors yesterday voted to continue to the third stage. 

Mayor Jamie Cleine told Kerre Woodham that step enables more conversations. 

He says the plan has never been to just pick up and move Westport, it will be an inter-generational process. 

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