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Development versus environment

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Environmental issues are close to the heart of many Coromandel residents. When in 2010 there were plans to develop the unspoiled New Chums Beach near Coromandel, local environmental campaigner Linda Cholmondeley-Smith urged the government to protect it by making it a national reserve.

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Paul Monin, Hauraki–Coromandel region – Government and politics, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/30487/development-versus-environment (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Monin, published 13 December 2010, updated 1 April 2016.

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Linda Cholmondeley Smith
15 December 2010
Would like to email you a short video we made of New Chum. Additional historic information for you. Please give me a call or email me as to where I could email or upload to. Many thanks Linda Cholmondeley Smith