22 December, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, Featured Post, News, Our Projects |
Albert-Eden Local Board’s recently opened splashpad has given Potters Park a new lease of life. Already more people are using the playground and grass areas than for many years. “Improving our parks so more people enjoy them is one of the Board’s...
7 November, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, Featured Post, News
Peter Haynes Speech from Chair at the Inaugural Meeting of the Albert-Eden Local Board, 6 November 2013, Raye Freedman Centre E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e rau rangatira mā o ngā hau e whā, tēnā koutou katoa. Greetings, on behalf of the Board, to our distinguished guests....
27 September, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, Events, Featured Post, News
Street Corner Meetings in Albert-Eden: ‘accountability and listening’ City Vision candidates in Albert Eden will be face to face with voters Saturday and Sunday this weekend and the next. There is a heavy schedule of street corner stops so that all residents who...
26 September, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects |
Dominion Road carries more people in buses than in cars! Making it even more effective as a bus transport route is a major focus of the upgrade that will start early in 2014 – but people are to the fore as never in the past. Gone are the days when the car is king in...
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...
20 September, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects
A big problem for big cities is how to strengthen neighbourhoods. With the new city, Auckland had an opportunity to develop new local projects. I had a vision that would support neighbours and in doing so create connections, improve community resilience and decrease...
1 September, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, News
Lisa Loveday, candidate for the Maungawhau subdivision of the Albert-Eden Local Board Sadly, Lisa’s dear husband, John Druzianic, aged 59 passed away after a short illness on 23 August. We offer our great sympathy to Lisa and her family. John had been...
30 August, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, News
The rugby season winds up this weekend for City Vision candidate Godfrey Rudolph (Albert-Eden Local Board – Maungawhau subdivision) I’ve enjoyed being engaged with community sports as a rugby coach at school, club and representative level. A highlight has...
29 August, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects
Every month, Sandringham’s farmers’ market gets its boards up around the street, and hundreds of locals come along on “second Saturdays” between 9am and 12.30 to the local community centre. The market’s run of perfect sunny Saturdays has only been broken once since...
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...
