Recently in class we have been learning about the possible effects that SNA would impact on our land.
SNA FNDC (Significant Natural Area Far North District Council) is planning to take 40% of northland. Although there are pros and cons of this situation. Most, if not all people that are affected by SNA are not liking this. If you have property in the SNA zone that means that there are certain restrictions that apply to you and your land.
If you wanted to either sell, subdivide or clear vegetation on your land you would have to get consent from the government.
There are pros and cons about the SNA. The pros are that if they were to go ahead with the SNA vegetation thing, that means that all of the native animals and plants would be partially protected, by partially I mean that, sure, they can stop you from cutting down the vegetation, but they can’t stop all of the possums, and all of the pests from from killing all of the native vegetation and native animals. The cons for us are, we won’t be able to cut down vegetation to improve our property value without consent from the government. If we were to subdivide or sell we would have to build a big fence that we would have to pay for supplies and put the fence up ourselves. And it would definitely not benefit us. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to waste my time putting up a fence that doesn’t benefit me or my property.
So over all of this, all i’m saying is that, the government think that this will benefit us and the land. But there are many ways that they could do it. This is just the wrong way.
