{"id":151466,"date":"2025-11-24T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151466\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:01:12","slug":"hastings-sikh-temple-consent-extended-to-2027-after-project-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151466\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Sikh temple consent extended to 2027 after project delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEverything is running nicely and smoothly through &#8230; and, hopefully, very soon, we will start developing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">A Hastings District Council spokeswoman confirmed the update status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLast year the NZ Sikh Society (Hastings) applied for and was granted an extension of time to their 2018 resource consent,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe extension allows them until 5 November 2027 to give effect to their consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">When Hawke\u2019s Bay Today visited the site on Friday, only fencing and hazard boards were in place, with no active machinery.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The approved Sikh temple site on Richmond Rd, Tomoana.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The approved Sikh temple site on Richmond Rd, Tomoana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">The original process of gaining consent to build on the land was complex, as the proposed temple sits within Plains Production Zone land, where places of assembly are generally discouraged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">After the Sikh community objected to the initial decision to decline the application, a Hastings District Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/backflip-new-hastings-sikh-temple-granted-resource-consent-by-council\/F5W7W75GE7ST3FQC3E4NBRCS4Y\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/backflip-new-hastings-sikh-temple-granted-resource-consent-by-council\/F5W7W75GE7ST3FQC3E4NBRCS4Y\/\">hearings committee reversed its position and granted consent<\/a>, citing the social and cultural wellbeing of the community as a key factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEverything is running nicely and smoothly through &#8230; and, hopefully, very soon, we will start developing.\u201d A Hastings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18516,74,8996,16492,36305,5194,111,43,139,69,3263,101122,79677,61],"class_list":["post-151466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-18516","tag-after","tag-consent","tag-delays","tag-extended","tag-hastings","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-project","tag-sikh","tag-temple","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}