page_title: Shelly Bay
section_title: Development of the area
hierarchical_section_title: Shelly Bay / Development of the area
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing part of Shelly Bay and its ownership as of April 2017
context_page_description: Shelly Bay is a bay on the Miramar Peninsula of Wellington, New Zealand. Most of the land was owned by the New Zealand Defence Force owned for 124 years until 2009. Today it is the site of a controversial planned residential development which, as of July 2020, is the subject of three ongoing court cases and a pending city council vote.
context_section_description: Multiple uses for the land of Shelly Bay have been proposed since the closure of the defence base, including a casino, an indoor rainforest biome, and a movie museum, the latter being proposed by director Peter Jackson. Development of the area has been controversial; news site Stuff reported that it wrote about 400 articles on Shelly Bay between 2011 and 2019.
  Ian Cassels, director of the property development company The Wellington Company, has been planning a $500 million development for the land since 2014 but the project has faced legal, bureaucratic, and other barriers.
caption: Map showing part of Shelly Bay and its ownership as of April 2017
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