Auckland's SkyPath is getting the go ahead.

The Auckland Council Finance Committee has voted in favour of the public private partnership.

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It took five hours of public submissions and intense questioning from the SkyPath team before councillors made their decision.

The public private partnership means it will be owned partially by council and partially by private investor H.R.L Morrison and Company.

It will be a user-paid system until the project is paid off, then council hopes to buy back the full ownership of the path.