Napier faces insulation bill

Located at the port’s inner harbour area, the development has also freed land at Cashin Quay for its burgeoning coal and container throughput.

The hearing, which received about 250 submissions, arose out of residents’ frustration at growing noise levels being generated from the increasingly-busy port.

Inner and outer port noise zone limits of 65 decibels and 55 decibels respectively, are now in the process of being written into the council’s district plan.