An extraordinary meeting of the Dunedin City Council planning and environment committee yesterday discussed a request from the trust for a district plan change that would turn what is now industrial zoned land into campus and stadium zoned land. But the meeting lasted for less than five minutes.
Deputy Mayor Syd Brown raised a procedural motion to let a report on the plan change lie on the table, a motion that was carried unanimously.
Cr Brown said after the meeting some councillors had raised concerns about "the completeness and robustness'' of the trust's report.
Asked what issues had been raised, Cr Colin Weatherall said one aspect was the assessment of environmental effects in the "section 32'' part of the report.
"There's been some comment that a little more detail - or depth would be a better word - was required to make it more robust.''
He said it was not possible to modify the plan change at the meeting as the committee only had three options.
One was to adopt the request as the council's own plan change, meaning it would accept the responsibility and costs of processing it, as recommended in a report by acting planning policy manager Paul Freeland.
The other options were to accept it as a private plan change, or reject it.
Cr Brown said he expected the delay would only be for one or two weeks, in a process expected to take until the end of the year, and possibly longer if there are appeals to the Environment Court.
The delay does not affect land acquisition at the site.
The council has a deadline of Monday to be satisfied with property purchase contracts at the Awatea St site, though deadlines have been been exceeded in the past.
