Fighting Fund for the Pegasus Residents Group Incorporated

$12,440 donated

Given by 105 generous donors in 20 days

A fighting fund for a community organisation against a developer with deep pockets who wants to turn our green spaces into houses.

Pegasus, Canterbury

Don’t Let Developers Rewrite the Rules - This Is How Community Spaces Disappear

Wolfbrook Residential have bought Pegasus Golf Course, a special purpose area protected for the community as a recreational and tourism area. They have stated that they want to turn it into housing and will try to push it through a fast-track process.

What that means:

- Fewer opportunities for people to object

- Less transparency

- Decisions made with limited community input

- Environmental and infrastructure concerns pushed aside

- Protections for the community that were put in place when the town was being developed wiped away

- Our district plan ignored and housing placed where it is not wanted. Not by residents. Not by council. Not by our local politicians. Not by Iwi. Not by the wider community.

If this is allowed to happen, it sets a precedent and every protected space in New Zealand becomes more vulnerable.

If that is allowed to happen, more development companies with deep pockets will try and grab this opportunity to take what is precious from you for the sake of making more money for them.

This is why Pegasus residents are angry, and you should be too.

Waimakariri already has enough land designated in their district plan for around 30 years of growth. There is no shortage forcing this. This is a developer seeing an opportunity and taking a punt.

Do communities still get a say, or can that be pushed aside when it suits?

We know this is going to be an expensive battle and we are asking for your help.

Use of funds

A broad fighting fund to cover the additional costs around battling a large, well resourced organisation, such as legal costs and advocacy costs. We will post a page update to keep donors up-to-date if any unexpected costs arise.

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Thank You 1 July 2026

Thank you all. The Givealittle page is now closed and raised $12,440 for the fighting fund. Amazing stuff. We've also had contributions directly to our bank account from individuals so this puts us in a good position to fight the good fight.

A breakdown.

- $12,440 donated through our Givealittle page

- 16,054 signatures to the parliamentary petition over a month

- 1.7m views on our Facebook page

- Private donations through other individuals

- Multiple newspaper articles

- Multiple radio segments

- Multiple TV articles

For the petition: When we started we thought we would do well if we got 2,000 signatures. 16,054 signatures later, we are absolutely blown away by the passion of this community and the support from the rest of New Zealand.

On July 22nd we will be presenting the petition to parliament. Our small band of volunteers is beavering away in the background on phase two of our plan. We will keep you updated.

Our most sincere thanks to you all.

Pegasus Residents Group

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