19 September, 2015 | Featured Post, News
Today is Suffrage Day – a day to celebrate those feisty women who worked so hard for New Zealand to become the first country in the world to give women the vote. As we celebrate today with the suffragists of the Auckland women’s suffrage memorial looking...
12 September, 2015 | Featured Post, News
Major upgrades are planned for the city centre’s only community centre and the square in front of it, and Aucklanders are being asked for their thoughts on the draft concept design. The redesign of Freyberg Square and refurbishment of Pioneer Women’s and Ellen...
27 August, 2015 | Featured Post, News
City Vision elected representatives in the Owairaka ward are fed up with broken promises by Auckland Transport on the funding of the Mt Albert rail station over-bridge, and have started a petition to gain public support against the Great Mt Albert Rail Over-bridge...
17 August, 2015 | Featured Post, News
The Independent Hearings Panel hearing submissions on the council’s Unitary Plan last month released interim guidance on Special Character and Pre-1944 Building Demolition Control Overlay. The independent panel rejected a council proposal to protect all...
16 July, 2015 | Featured Post, News
Opening of the Howlett Reserve Walkway The Howlett-Waterview Esplanade upgrade is part of the consent conditions for the SH20 Waterview Connection project. 3½ years after the consent was granted, the walkway reopened in July 2015. Albert-Eden Local Board Member, Margi...
13 July, 2015 | Featured Post, News
Report back from the Melbourne Urban Forest Masterclass The Masterclass on 25 June 2015 was offered free by Melbourne City Council to Councils across Australia and extended to the Waitemata Local Board when they heard, through Penny Cliffin of Unitec, about the...
13 June, 2015 | Featured Post, News
If all goes well, commuters and those wanting to shop in Mt Albert may soon be able to access Mt Albert Railway Station from the town centre via a pedestrian bridge, says City Vision Deputy Chair of the Albert Eden Board Glenda Fryer. With an eye to pedestrian safety...
5 June, 2015 | Featured Post, News
Book Launch ‘Parnell Baths: a jewel in Auckland’s crown’, 4 June 2015 Good evening ladies and gentleman. Thank you all for being here to share this occasion. I am Shale Chambers, chair of the Waitemata Local Board of Auckland Council, your MC for this evening on...
2 June, 2015 | Featured Post, News
On 23 May I took part in a panel discussion with Patrick Reynolds (Transport Blog contributor) and Phil Twyford MP (Labour’s Transport spokesperson) on the future of transport in Auckland. The event was organised by the Auckland Labour Isthmus Hub...
2 May, 2015 | Events, Featured Post, News, Waitemata Local Board, Waitematā Local Board
Call for nominations Council documents are peppered with words like ‘empowered communities’, ‘flourishing communities’, ‘engaged communities’ ‘vibrant communities’ and ‘connected communities’. But it is people; mostly volunteers, who make our communities empowered,...
