{"id":6725,"date":"2022-08-18T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/billionaire-peter-thiel-refused-consent-for-sprawling-lodge-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:38:21","slug":"billionaire-peter-thiel-refused-consent-for-sprawling-lodge-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/billionaire-peter-thiel-refused-consent-for-sprawling-lodge-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Peter Thiel refused consent for sprawling lodge in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local council decides proposed bunker-like home would negatively impact surrounding landscape<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s plans for an elaborate bunker-like lodge in a remote part of New Zealand\u2019s South Island have been thwarted, after the local council decided the home would have too great a negative impact on the surrounding landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Second Star, a New Zealand company owned by the PayPal co-founder, had applied to build the sprawling lakeside complex in Wanaka, an alpine South Island region known for its natural beauty and isolation. The plans were fiercely opposed by conservationists, who claimed in submissions that the lodge would \u201cdestroy our beautiful lake environment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/18\/peter-thiel-refused-consent-for-sprawling-lodge-in-new-zealand-local-council\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a97f4e87a91540fab0e7a104a409d9f772147609\/294_0_4193_2517\/master\/4193.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=91639f1c22427f5776fb7ee77fac0873\" title=\"Billionaire Peter Thiel refused consent for sprawling lodge in New Zealand\" \/>Local council decides proposed bunker-like home would negatively impact surrounding landscape<br \/>\nThe billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s plans for an elaborate bunker-like lodge in a remote part of New Zealand\u2019s South Island have been thwarted, after the local council decided the home would have too great a negative impact on the surrounding landscape.<br \/>\nSecond Star, a New Zealand company owned by the PayPal co-founder, had applied to build the sprawling lakeside complex in Wanaka, an alpine South Island region known for its natural beauty and isolation. The plans were fiercely opposed by conservationists, who claimed in submissions that the lodge would \u201cdestroy our beautiful lake environment\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local council decides proposed bunker-like home would negatively impact surrounding landscape The billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s plans for an elaborate bunker-like lodge in a remote part of New Zealand\u2019s South Island have been thwarted, after the local council decided the home would have too great a negative impact on the surrounding landscape. Second Star, a New &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/billionaire-peter-thiel-refused-consent-for-sprawling-lodge-in-new-zealand\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billionaire Peter Thiel refused consent for sprawling lodge in New Zealand<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}