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Residents in Carterton are fighting a proposed subdivision of up to 108 small urban sections even in its early planning stages.

Hornsby Street resident, Lorraine Garrity is leading the charge by distributing leaflets in letterboxes calling Carterton people to object to the proposal on the grounds that the town's infrastructure could not cope with the extra services required.

She says both water and sewerage services are pushed to their limit already with the burgeoning development in the town.

A meeting has been arranged at the Carterton RSA at 3pm this Sunday, May 20.

"I'm not against development, it's great for the town, but the council has to wake up before it's too late and our services fall over."

Both water and sewer mains are expected to be extended from the existing ones in Armstrong Avenue.

Town planner Edita Babos said that issue is one for the hearing of the resource consent application, a date being set once submissions close on Friday June 2.

Upper Hutt Developments Ltd has put in an application to the Carterton District Council to turn farmland north of the Armstrong Avenue/Hornsby Street area into a subdivision, which would ultimately involve new roads, a reserve and an area for small unit housing.

It would be a staged development with just 13 lots being established first off.

The company had bought the almost 10ha of land from June Koers and her daughters, Karen and Jennifer in 1992 and has been waiting for the right time to establish a new subdivision. Entry to the subdivision would be off the end of Armstrong Avenue and Feist Street.

Ted Stammers who lives in the neighbourhood helped deliver the protest leaflets.

He described the land, a former swamp area as a "duck pond", especially after weather like we've had.