East West Link also presenting issues The Planning Committee meetings for the first time on Tuesday at Town Hall for what is a heavy agenda. The Planning Committee chaired … Continue reading Planning Committee Meets for First Time. What Are Kiwi Rail Doing?
AUT students make most of food waste AUT culinary students have been busy making most of food waste which on average takes up 40% of our general waste we … Continue reading Making Most of Food Waste
Anti Urban Councillor? After the shock upset in Manurewa-Papakura Ward with Daniel Newman tipping out Calum Penrose in the recent elections it was always going to be interesting to … Continue reading We Know the Problems, We Know the Actual Solutions. What is Needed is $ Councillor Newman
Enjoy the Tūpuna Maunga car free From the Tūpuna Maunga Authority Safer spaces on the way for Auckland’s ancestral mountains Pedestrian-only areas at the tihi (summits) of five Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountains) … Continue reading More Auckland Volcanoes go Car Free
Productivity still missing 2% target About every November I usually will go checking up on Auckland’s productivity and see how it measures against Outcome 3 of the Auckland Plan … Continue reading Auckland Productivity Returns to Positive – Still Misses Target
Turning a former State Highway into a human people space Earlier in the Transform Manukau series I did comment and provide an alternative to Manukau Station Road (see: #TransformManukau … Continue reading Manukau Station Road Humanising Therapy #Part 19 of the #TransformManukau Series
Plans are there, all subject to cash Just after the Local Government Elections there was a rather large spiel in one of the Papakura Facebook community pages about the … Continue reading Auckland Transport Reply on Great South Road, Takanini Issues. Bus Lanes Coming!
Better use of land a good way to get on top of housing supply in Auckland Recently a presentation was given where four houses (especially large Housing New Zealand … Continue reading 18:4 Housing Solution. Is it a solution?
It already is In my previous post I looked at whether there was a preference for suburbs or whether that was a myth based on restrictive planning processes against … Continue reading Rich Cities and Poor Suburbs? Could it Happen in Auckland and Does the Onus Fall to Panuku?
No It has been suggested that the Drury South industrial complex and surrounds (currently all Future Urban Zone land in the Unitary Plan) could be the next Manukau in … Continue reading Will Drury South Be the new Manukau of the deep South (of Auckland)?
Talking Southern Auckland 