
Roskill Community Voice year in review
Puketāpapa Local Board members Jon Turner and Bobby Shen report back on an eventful year. 2023 started off with record-breaking rainfall in January that took a serious toll on Puketāpapa residents and wider Tāmaki Makaurau. In our area we saw many houses flooded...
Art puts a spring in your step
First published in Ponsonby News November 2023 City Vision celebrates arts and events this Spring in Ponsonby and beyond. Arts and Events make up a tiny fraction of council budgets but they can be the most joyful and memorable. You might even argue they are necessary....
State housing is not a sin, it’s a public good
Opinion piece first published in Stuff's community papers October 2023 Julie Fairey, Councillor for Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward For twenty years, I’ve lived in a Kāinga Ora dominated neighbourhood called Waikōwhai, south of Mount Roskill. We bought a 1960s three...
Te Manu Rongonui o te Rautau/Bird of the Century
E koekoe te kōkō, e ketekete te kākā, e kūkū te kererū * City Vision is campaigning for #KoolKererū this year as it is the perfect urban bird that we all want to see in our gardens and street trees. The ideal combo of chonky and beautiful, Kererū is a bird we are...
City Vision: Making progress on recovery from floods and landslides
On January 27th the world changed for many Aucklanders, and some are still living in uncertainty. Climate change in our city has become more obvious than ever; homes were inundated around stream catchments while the land slid on hillsides and around the coast. Some...
Why City Vision supports Māori seats for Auckland Council
Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland Council is currently consulting on the future of Māori representation on council. In October 2023 the decision will be made by the governing body whether to introduce Māori seats for the 2025 local elections. Here Waitematā...
Holding the vision: A community-led resource recovery centre for central Auckland
In 2009, the “godfather” of zero waste in Aoteaora, the late Warren Snow spoke at a Grey Lynn 2030 public meeting about the concept of a resource recovery centre and the economic, environmental and social benefits it could generate. The vision for a centre was...