Residents near Auckland's Eden Park will soon find out if a proposed concert at Eden Park will get the go-ahead.
Resource consent for Sir Ray Avery's Life Pod Appeal event on Waitangi Day could cost more $750,000.
- Helen Clark's actions over Eden Park charity concert 'morally wrong' - Sir Ray Avery
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Three quarters of people who made submissions are backing the charity gig, but some submitters, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are against it.
Ms Clark lodged a submission against the concert and argued it would be a "Trojan horse" to bring more noisy events to Eden Park.
She lashed out at Sir Ray on Twitter when he called her opposition to the concert a "fall from grace".
"Amazing way of operating - to hurl abuse, and then say he wants to sit down and talk," she wrote on Twitter.
"Time for 101 perhaps on residents' rights to object to activities which are not permitted under current planning parameters."
Sir Ray responded to say he would apologise if his comments came across as bullying, but Ms Clark was in the wrong.
"If Helen had put in a submission like all the other people from Eden Park nothing would have happened," he told Newshub Nation.
"What Helen did was to go not just on the parapet, [but] on top of the parapet the flag waving 'I'm going to stop Sir Avery's concert'.
"I think that, in my personal view what Helen's doing is morally wrong, so I felt that I had the right to have that same position."
Members of The Eden Park Trust should have an answer on Thursday.
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