Opening up Chamberlain Park for everyone
Imagine a big, new park in your neighbourhood. Open space to play, picnic, stroll, jog and take the kids Restore the stream (currently a concrete-lined drain) improving habitat and water quality to the harbour Plant thousands of native trees to bring birds back to the...
Improvements planned for all the community at Chamberlain Park
Voters in Albert-Eden are receiving information from a group of golfers suggesting the Chamberlain Park is going to be chopped up and developed. A misleading campaign is causing unnecessary alarm about the future of well-loved and needed Auckland parkland. Here Dr...
Working for the community in Albert-Eden
City Vision a strong voice Albert-Eden Local Board Achievements 2013- 2016 Your City Vision team of Helga Arlington, Graeme Easte, Glenda Fryer, Peter Haynes and Margi Watson have been bringing wide-ranging skills and experience to work for you and your community....
Working to provide park and facilities in Mount Albert for all the community
City Vision: Working for you. A look at the great park and facilities in Mount Albert for all the community Mt Albert’s ‘Rocket Park’ is a playground and a regional beacon for all our visitors and residents…but do you know that there is a whole swag of great...
The transformation of Gribblehirst Park
City Vision members of the Albert -Eden Local Board have been working for the Sandringham, Morningside and St Lukes communities to make big improvements to Gribblehirst Park In the 1920s colonial Sandringham settlers the Gribbles and the Hirsts gave their estate which...
Facelift for Potters Park
One of central Auckland’s favourite parks is getting a much-needed facelift and Albert-Eden Local Board’s City Vision team were at the dawn blessing on the morning of 28 July for the imminent start of works. Speaking at the ceremony, Local Board Chair Dr...
Celebrate the Point Chevalier Plaza upgrade
Celebrate the Point Chevalier Plaza Upgrade. Albert-Eden Local Board is committed to supporting its local town centres which have been struggling in the face of challenges from alternatives such as malls and big-box retail centres. By investing in place making...
New shared paths making progress
Shared Path progress in Pt Chevalier, Waterview, Mt Albert and Owairaka Shared paths are progressing across the Central Isthmus with several new paths being built as part of the SH20 Waterview Connection project. By 2017, it is expected that safer walking and cycling...
Chamberlain Park not for sale
Albert-Eden Local Board Chair, Dr Peter Haynes, is quite clear about the future of Chamberlain Park in response to suggestions by consultants and others that it be sold for housing. The park is needed for the community, he says. At no time has the Local Board...From our Facebook page
Some strong advocacy from our Puketāpapa Local Board representative Bobby Shen - Puketāpapa Local Board has paid off. Have a read through about how he managed to get this mahi done - it included busting out the tape measure!
Road Safety Week 2023 has raised awareness of our road safety heroes and the steps that everyone can take to stop needless deaths and injuries year-round. At current rates of road harm, over the next five years one in two Aucklanders is expected to be personally connected to someone seriously injured or killed. ![]()
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City VIsion supports evidence-based, best practice road safety that aims towards “Vision Zero” that was adopted for Auckland in 2019. Vision Zero is an ethics-based approach that puts human life ahead of any other benefits, and has now been adopted around the world. The key principle is that, given that people inevitably make mistakes that result in crashes, we should strive to make those crashes “survivable”. You should be able to walk away, rather than be carried away by first responders. ![]()
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We are working to make our communities safer for everyone especially for kids travelling to school with new pedestrian crossings especially near schools, safer speeds, and improvements to footpaths.