Residents of Auckland's wealthiest suburb fear a prominent businessman's proposed helicopter flights from his new residence and the effects on their precious beach.
Dirk Hudig of the Herne Bay Residents Association said his organisation had received a significant amount of correspondence from people worried about Briscoe Group managing director Rod Duke's plans for helicopters to take off and land at a boatshed he and wife Patricia have consent to demolish on their Sarsfield St property.
The new boatshed would be built with a James Bond-style roof which would open, turning the structure into a helicopter landing pad, consent documents from the council show.
The boatshed is on the popular inner-city Sentinel Beach.