Getting parking right for Auckland
Opinion piece Pippa Coom, Deputy Chair, Waitemata Local Board A version of this post was originally published on Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan website – Shape Auckland – in response to the draft Unitary Plan proposals for minimum parking...
May update from the Waitemata Local Board
Standing aloft the almost completed new Point Resolution Bridge with my fellow Waitemata Local Board members, I marvelled at how this project had so quickly come together and been completed to such a high standard of design and workmanship within a tight timeframe.
Ponsonby News Column May 2013
So just what does your Local Board do?
Shale Chambers, Chair, Waitemata Local Board If you stopped someone walking down any of our local surbaban shopping centres and asked them what a Local Board of Council does I don’t think they would mention local economic development. For those in the know they...
Heritage issues continue in Ponsonby
Shale Chambers, Chair, Waitemata Local Board Old habits die hard. The many headed monster that was the resource consenting and planning department of the old Auckland City Council we hope has finally had its last gasp and is now dead. Using the old Auckland City...
Good for business priorities of the Waitemata Local Board
In November 2012 the Waitemata Local Board in association with AECOM organised a Good for Business Seminar with Dr Rodney Tolley director of Walk21. He spoke about the economic benefits of investing in walking and cycling based on his report “Good for...
Mid term report of the City Vision team on the Waitemata Local Board
The mid term report of the City Vision team on the Waitemata Local Board. Published in October 2012. Shale Chambers, Pippa Coom, Jesse Chalmers, Christopher Dempsey and Tricia Reade – we said that if elected we would establish a strong Waitemata Local Board that...
Local Government reforms
Back your own horse call to Government On 5 September I joined the Auckland Council delegation speaking to the Council’s submission on the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill at the Local Government and Environment Select Committee Hearings I spoke after the...
Jacobs Ladder re-opens
Shale Chambers, Chair Waitemata Local Board 31 August 2011 Patient locals have waited over a year for the rebuilding and re-opening of Jacob’s Ladder – that wonderful conection between the heights of St Mary’s Bay and the western edge of the...