26 August, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, Waitemata Local Board
The resource consent hearing for Weona walkway gets underway today (the application is available here). Hearing commissioners will decide if the Waitemata Local Board can build a proposed 1.4km long coastal walkway on Westmere Park Reserve land between Westmere Park,...
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...
22 August, 2013 | City Vision, News
Recently, columnist Brian Rudman wrote that candidates at local level should “embrace the labels we’re all familiar with”, while conservative Colin Craig called City Vision a “pseudonym.” But City Vision has been proudly been flaunting its...
22 August, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, Waitemata Local Board |
Living Streets Aotearoa has been advocating for changes to No Exit signage around our streets. No Exit street signs are there to indicate to vehicle drivers there is no exit but don’t reveal if there is in fact accessway for walking and/or cycling. This is...
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...
18 August, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, Waitemata Local Board |
As part of the Waitemata Local Board’s Greenway Plan, I’ve championed for investigation into opening the closed Parnell rail tunnel (an original rail tunnel immediately adjacent to the present day tunnel) so that a Greenway could be created between Newmarket...
