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...
15 September, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, Waitemata Local Board |
Total parts per million of carbon in our atmosphere is, at time of writing, around 397. This is reaching levels not seen for three million years. Not 300 hundred years, or 3,000 years, but three million years. Back then, the world was a different place; sea levels...
6 September, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects
This week work commences on Albert-Eden Local Board’s flagship project, the splash-pad at Potters Park. Project lead and board chair Peter Haynes says he can’t wait to bring his own two year-old son down to play amidst the fountains, showers and sprays, and to hear...
5 September, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, Waitemata Local Board
This article was first published in the September edition of Ponsonby News We all have a personal connection to Ponsonby Road. It is far more than just a thoroughfare. It is a celebrated destination and home to many residents and businesses. Over the years plans have...
3 September, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, Our Projects
The sight of ugly infrastructure can make our streets look very unloved – however Point Chevalier received a bit of loving recently with two utility boxes getting makeover. I proposed the sites as stand out candidates for the transformation. While the library got a...
3 September, 2013 | Albert Eden Local Board, Our Projects
One of the key projects that Margi Watson, Deputy Chair of the Albert Eden Local Board has pushed is for free, community based, family friendly events. No such events had featured on the Council agenda and it needed to change. “On the ground, there appeared to be...
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 | 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,...
