2 September, 2013 | Featured Post, News
Day 4 of the Unitary Plan decision making marathon started at 9am this morning going through till 7pm. Significant gains were achieved for the Waitemata communities. Mike Lee’s motions, seconded by Sandra Coney (with strong supporting advocacy from Waitemata...
1 September, 2013 | City Vision, Featured Post, Local Government, News
“A living wage is the income necessary to provide workers and their families with the basic necessities of life. A living wage will enable workers to live with dignity and participate as active citizens in society.” – Living Wage Aotearoa “We urge the...
30 August, 2013 | Featured Post, News |
Significant developments from the Unitary Plan deliberations today. Big box retail in the Mixed Use Zone The controversial proposal by Bunnings to build a development on Mixed Use zoned land on Great North Road has brought into the spotlight the undesirability of the...
26 August, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, Featured Post, Local Issues, News
As Auckland grows, the sections are subdivided and the apartments are going up and sadly the playgrounds are shrinking. Swings, slides, roundabouts and flying foxes are literally disappearing. Safety concerns and minimalistic design aesthetics are stripping...
24 August, 2013 | City Vision, Featured Post, Local Issues, News
The new Auckland ‘supercity’ promised by the National and ACT parties has turned out to be less than what was promised to our many local neighbourhoods. Communities have been hit hard by amalgamation as all community facilities have been up for review and ‘fitted in’...
24 August, 2013 | Featured Post, News, Waitemata Local Board
How the billboard on the St James Theatre came to be removed Assigned the Heritage, Planning and Urban Design portfolio (with Tricia Reade) at the beginning of the Waitemata Local Board term, the challenges within the portfolio were exemplified by one larger than life...
20 August, 2013 | Featured Post, News, Puketapapa Local Board, Puketapapa Local Board, Roskill Community Voice |
By Roskill Community Voice candidate Julie Fairey. One of the projects I’ve set up in my time on the Puketapapa Local Board has been the Puketapapa Garden Web. I have very much enjoyed working on this very low-level community development initiative aimed at...
19 August, 2013 | Events, Featured Post, Local Issues, News, Puketapapa Local Board, Roskill Community Voice, Roskill Community Voice
The Roskill Community Voice team, who are standing for the Puketapapa Local Board had a successful launch of their Vision for Three Kings policy package over the weekend. The RCV team, who have been represented by Julie Fairey and Michael Wood on the Board over the...
19 August, 2013 | City Vision, Council Controlled Organisations, Featured Post, Local assets, Local Government, News
One of the major controversies of the first three years of the new Auckland Council has been the behaviour of the wholly Council owned company Ports of Auckland (POAL). POAL are one of those entities deliberately put at arms length from democratic control under Rodney...
15 August, 2013 | Council Controlled Organisations, Featured Post, Local Government, News
One of the big concerns of people at the time of the Supercity reforms was a loss of democracy. A particular concern was that many important Council functions were being packed away into “Council Controlled Organisations” (CCO’s) with little...
