{"id":58296,"date":"2023-09-12T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/wellington-divided-as-peter-jackson-land-purchase-halts-housing-plan"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:48:00","slug":"wellington-divided-as-peter-jackson-land-purchase-halts-housing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58296","title":{"rendered":"Wellington divided as Peter Jackson land purchase halts housing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial development proposed in New Zealand capital, which faces a housing crisis, scrapped after film-maker purchased block of land<\/p>\n<p>As news spread on Wellington\u2019s leafy Miramar peninsula that the film-maker Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh had halted a controversial NZ$500m housing development by buying the land it was to be built on, residents of the seaside suburb were joyous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic,\u201d says Miramar local Dan Stickley, as he leaves the supermarket. It matters that it was Jackson \u2013 whose sprawling moviemaking enclave powers the otherwise sleepy suburb \u2013 who bought the land, he adds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/wellington-divided-as-peter-jackson-land-purchase-halts-housing-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial development proposed in New Zealand capital, which faces a housing crisis, scrapped after film-maker purchased block of landAs news spread on Wellington\u2019s leafy Miramar peninsula that the film-maker Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Wals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3933,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,697,56,850,966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-housing","category-new-zealand","category-peter-jackson","category-wellington"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296\/revisions\/58297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}