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Basketball hoop hoo-ha: ‘We’ve invited the neighbour over for a BBQ’

Publish Date
Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 4:05PM
Basketball hoop hassles for the Hiha family in Napier (Photo/NZ Herald)

Basketball hoop hoo-ha: ‘We’ve invited the neighbour over for a BBQ’

Publish Date
Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 4:05PM

A basketball hoop that raised the ire of a neighbour in Napier is being moved a few metres to meet council rules, but it's not enough for the neighbour who wants it gone completely.

The trouble began when the Suzie Hiha, a basketball coach, installed a basketball hoop for their boys in the Te Awa subdivision.

Within a few weeks the Hihas were visited by Napier City Council staff who had fielded a complaint by a neighbour and on inspection deemed the hoop to be a structure, meaning it had to be more than 3 metres from the road boundary fence.

Despite feeling the council's request was unreasonable, the family agreed to move it.

Suzie Hiha told Andrew Dickens they’re getting on with their lives, and have extended an olive branch by inviting said neighbour over for a community BBQ.

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