Debbie Porteous

Plans to build a breakwater to protect the beach at Te Rauone are on hold until the community raises the funds it needs to contribute to the project.

Dunedin's apparent obsession with car parking will not be allowed to derail the new cycle lanes project, city councillors warned yesterday.

Ratepayers wanting a new swimming pool in Mosgiel are being urged to attend a public meeting to show their support to Dunedin City Council tomorrow night.

The Dunedin City Council has adopted a policy formally stating its position on smoking - that Dunedin become a smoke-free city - but has asked for further information on how such a policy might be implemented.

A review of the way Dunedin City Council grants are administered proposes to replace the $800,000-plus civic grants scheme with a contestable fund with new criteria and rules.

The Dunedin district licensing committee will hear arguments in public next week after police and the medical officer of health opposed the application for an on-licence for Queens bar at Queens Gardens.

Smoke-free Otago is seeking formal support from the council for a ''smoke-free Dunedin'' policy.

Creating a new city promotion team within the Dunedin City Council looks set to have ramifications for the way the council's commercial property investments are managed.

A Twizel businessman says he has had enough of investing in Dunedin after learning the hard way about complying with local planning rules.

Difficult economic times facing the racing industry have led the Otago Racing Club to apply to subdivide and sell some of its land on the Wingatui Racecourse site, its consultant says.

Concerns the ridge line of Saddle Hill's smaller hump is continuing to change are not shared by the director of the company quarrying the hill and the Dunedin City Council.

Prosecuting the owner of a Maungatua plantation was not a decision taken lightly, the Dunedin City Council says.

Police have recommended a Dunedin bar manager who poured alcohol directly into a customer's mouth as the man was lying backwards on the bar can have his manager's certificate renewed, but be suspended from managing for 30 days.

Angry a member was fined $100 after tenants put out their rubbish too early for collection, the Otago Property Investors Association says there should be some leniency in Dunedin's student area at the end of the year because it is an ''exceptional situation''.

Dunedin has jumped up the leaderboard in the Gigatown competition.