13 December, 2023 | Featured Post, News
City Vision’s Waitematā Local Board members Alex Bonham, Anahera Rawiri and Richard Northey report back on 2023. This year has been hard in many ways – floods, cost of living – and council has pivoted to address them all. However, behind the headlines, there...
3 December, 2023 | Featured Post, News, Puketapapa Local Board
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...
20 November, 2023 | Albert-Eden Local Board, Our People
I’ve been a member of the Albert-Eden Local Board since 2019. My background is in research and education, and I came to local politics through transport advocacy – getting a bike some years ago opened my eyes to how much work we need to do to make our transport system...
16 November, 2023 | Featured Post, News
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....
12 November, 2023 | Featured Post, News
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...
29 October, 2023 | Albert-Eden Local Board, Our People
I have lived and brought up my family in Albert-Eden since moving here in 1986 to work as a lawyer. Whilst I love living here, I know there are ways we can change and improve. We urgently need to reduce carbon emissions, travel times and road accidents, so I continue...
24 October, 2023 | Our People, Puketāpapa Local Board
“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.” First elected in 2019, I have served as Deputy Chair from 2020-2022 and as Chair of the Manukau Harbour Forum since 2020. In that time we have faced huge challenges – firstly a...
23 October, 2023 | Featured Post, News
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...
