notoriously difficult”.

Just a couple of months after residents in St Albans, Christchurch, pushed back over the design of an intense housing development, there is now a battle over who pays for the new fence when the developer says the existing one is inadequate and the resident disagrees.

Peka, who has previously voiced her disapproval about the design of medium-density housing in her suburb, has been asked by developer Wolfbrook Residential to pay half of the cost of the new fence between her property and its new five-unit development.