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Wellington City councillor Tamatha Paul has removed a tweet referring to public submitters at a council meeting as “absolute knobs”.

City councillor removes tweet calling public submitters ‘absolute knobs‘

A post by Wellington City councillor Tamatha Paul referring to public submitters as “absolute knobs” has been removed from Twitter.

Paul made the comment about a group of Mt Victoria residents who were part of a video submission on the council’s draft spatial plan on Wednesday.

The plan proposes removing demolition protections for many pre-1930s buildings and allowing new builds up to four storeys in parts of the suburb outside designated character “sub-areas”.

It is part of the council’s wider plan to squeeze in tens of thousands of extra residents across the city over the next 30 years.

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