12 July, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects
Comprehensive walking and cycling maps are now available for all parts of Albert-Eden, and some bordering suburbs. Board member Graeme Easte has been working on these maps for over two years and explains their purpose: “These new maps are designed to help users plan...
9 July, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board
The City Vision-led Waitemata Local Board ensured that when NZTA handed over the beautifully restored Campbell Free Kindergarten building it would be put to community use. The Kindergarten building was constructed in 1910 but had been vacant since the 1980’s....
8 July, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects
Helga Arlington, member Albert-Eden Local Board In Lambeth Road, every second car is over the speed limit, and Halesowen Ave, Calgary and Pine Streets are not far behind. City Vision Local Board members have made sure that speeding in the through streets from...
2 July, 2013 | Our Projects
City Vision and Roskill Community Voice members on the Albert- Eden, Puketapapa and Waitemata Local Boards are committed to waste management to reduce potentially valuable material going to landfill and are supporting work in piloting a joint community- led resource...
8 June, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects
Helga Arlington, member, Albert-Eden Local Board All of us have a Dominion Road story, it seems. My grandparents had a shoe shop on the corner with Balmoral Road in the 1920s – what’s your Dominion Road story? When I realised that the Auckland Theatre Company was...
21 May, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board
The Mayor and the Shale Chambers. Chair of the Waitemata Local Board opened the Pt Resolution/Tauarua footbridge and headland stairway to the public on 21 May 2013. It was is a co-operative project between the whole of Council, Iwi and the local community, conceived...
27 April, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, Our Projects
Margi Watson, Deputy Chair of the Albert Eden Local Board reports on three exciting innovations in the local board area. Improving Community and Recreation Facilities is one of the Board’s key priorities as identified in the Local Board Plan. Kuaka – our newest...
27 January, 2013 | Albert-Eden Local Board, News, Our Projects
Margi Watson reports on news from Albert Eden Local Board At last, improvement works are underway on Owairaka Maunga Much needed work on Owairaka-Mt Albert started on Monday 5 November 2012. This package of work was vigorously sought by Councillors Cathy Casey and...
3 December, 2012 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, 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...
19 August, 2012 | Events, Our Projects, Waitematā Local Board
On 10 August 2012 the Waitemata Local Board celebrated the “lighting up” and the return of the Three Lamps at the corner of Ponsonby Road and Jervois Road. The reinstatement of the Three Lamps was a legacy project inherited from the City Vision – led...