Stop shrinking my playground!
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...
Our View on Rates
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’...
St James Theatre and the billboard
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...
Hiding behind brands? No, we flaunt our allegiences!
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 allegiances all along. City...
Legible Auckland: Access signage for pedestrians
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 common...
Puketapapa Garden Web
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...
A Vision for Three Kings
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...
Reining in Ports of Auckland
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...
Opening up the old Parnell Rail Tunnel
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 and...
Nominations are in and confirmed
Nominations for the local government elections closed yesterday with all of City Vision’s candidates successfully registered. City Vision has nominated 34 candidates covering the Albert-Eden- Roskill Ward (Cr Cathy Casey and Peter Hayes), Waitemata & Gulf Ward (Cr...