SUBMISSION TO RPTP – CTD
Part One Down, Onto Parts Two and Three As mentioned in my SUBMISSION TO RPTP post, my submission is currently being written in response to Auckland Transport‘s call for feedback on the Regional Public Transport Plan: Have Begun Writing Submission to Regional Public Transport Plan As mentioned in the ALL THINGS PUBLIC TRANSPORT, Auckland Transport has released the Regional Public Transport Plan … Read more
Lets Dig Ourselves a Nice Hole!
Who In Council is About to Dig a Nice Hole? That being a $30 million HOLE after the Long Term Plan (2012 – 2022) has been set in (virtual) stone and monies both in and out “accounted for.” Well it seems after the former Manukau City in which Len Brown was Mayor rejected this … Read more
Time to Go?
Is it time to replace the Chair of the Strategy and Finance Committee I am been thinking to myself over this rather wet weekend on what do I expect from my representatives on Auckland Council. The list would rattle on and bore just about everyone to death so I’ll get to the point: I … Read more
2013 – Part Two
2013: The Issues and the Views of Auckland September-October 2013 Auckland will be conducting their postal ballot to elect our second Super City council and subsequent mayor. Already candidates and incumbents alike will be: gnashing the teeth, muddling through the options, and for sure making those “phone calls” in their weigh up of the … Read more
We Need To Move!!!
Low listings prompt property market stall warning – Business – NZ Herald News. Not good news especially for new home buyers. While The Auckland Plan is now in effect, and the Long Term Plan and Regional Land Transport Program up for hearings (and to which I submitted on) before their own adoption – there … Read more
Agenda for The Draft Long Term Plan is Up
15th February the Debate begins After the Herald mentions it, and I ask for it, Auckland Council released the agenda for its Strategy and Finance Committee meeting on Wednesday 15th February. The meeting will kick-start the debate into The Draft Long Term Plan and the process on how submissions will be taken before The Long Term Plan … Read more
Draft Long Term Plan (2012-2022)
The Draft Long Term Plan – Up for a read and consultation Volume Two of The Draft Long Term Plan was released yesterday for a read – before public submissions and feed back are called for in March. Strangely though according to Councillor George Wood the document disappear from the Auckland Council website. Never … Read more
The Draft Auckland Plan (#3) (Serial)
The Centralised Master (Community) Plan In the last Draft Auckland Plan Series post I gave an introduction and outline into the land use and transport aspects of my submission. In particular the post looked at the Land Allocation/Development/Utilisation system I had devised, and the two LADU methods also devised in the submission. The two … Read more
An Introduction
Auckland since 2010 thanks to one Royal Commission of Enquiry into Auckland Governance and some good old fashioned central politics in Wellington has been united under a unitary authority. Gone are the days since 1989 where Auckland had five city councils, three district councils and one regional council. Auckland now has one single authority – … Read more
