 A hearing was set for 28 May 2007.Speaking on behalf of the rezoning were Council, Friends of the Library (represented by Mrs Adrienne Wright), Plunket (by Ms Jane Sheridan and Jenny Kirk); speaking against were Abraham Holdings, Graham Milne (Airborne Asia Pacific), Clyde Scott, Peter White and David Brook.After three months' deliberation the Environment Court approved the building of a new library on the former site, but reaffirmed the rezoning commissioners' restrictions, notably the restriction on height which dropped the maximum from 11 m to 9 m, and the constraints on the footprint.