1 June, 2016 | Local Issues, News
Waitematā Local Board member Deborah Yates, who leads the natural portfolio, has been working to raise awareness about glyphosate spraying and to push for options to reduce its use in our parks There are many people who are very clear that local weed spraying has been...
26 April, 2015 | Events, News, Waitematā Local Board, Waitemata Local Board
25 April 2015 I am honoured to stand before this magnificent commemoration mural this year on behalf of your Waitemata Local Board of Auckland Council. Deputy Chair Pippa Coom and I are here to support the Grey Lynn Returned Services Club and local residents and...
4 February, 2015 | Featured Post, Local Issues, News, Puketāpapa Local Board |
From the Puketapapa (Mt Roskill) end it’s a very, very, cautious welcome to Auckland Transport’s proposals to extend tramlines (light rail) along key routes on Auckland’s isthmus. Don’t get us wrong – we like the idea. Fact, efficient,...
12 May, 2014 | Featured Post, Local Issues, News, Puketāpapa Local Board
Since our last update in early March, your Roskill Community Voice members on the Puketapapa Local Board have certainly continued to be busy! The main work of the Board as a whole is currently finalising our draft Local Board Plan to go out to our community for...
16 March, 2014 | City Vision, Featured Post, Local Issues, Parks, Waitemata Local Board, Waitematā Local Board
In a controversial recent decision, the City Vision members of the Waitematā Local Board voted to approve an events protocol – commissioned by the Board following recent events causing severe damage to the grounds – for the use of Victoria Park in central...
24 September, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, Local Issues, News, Our Projects
Graeme Easte of the Albert-Eden Local Board has been campaigning for almost ten years to have safety issues resolved at the 48 railway level crossings in the Auckland Region, particularly the 23 on the core commuter rail network. Each crossing represents a conflict...
28 August, 2013 | Cathy Casey, Local Issues, News |
The first day of three days of Unitary Plan deliberations ended with Cathy Casey successfully moving an amendment to the affordable housing provisions. She got support by 12 votes to 8 for “A requirement for all residential development of 15 or more dwellings...
28 August, 2013 | Local Issues, News
After a day debating urban zoning in the Unitary Plan, the Auckland Plan Committee will vote tomorrow on the minimum parking requirements in the Mixed Housing and THAB zoning. Cr Brewer has foreshadowed that he intends to move an amendment to increase MPRs in 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’...
