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Coca-Cola Amatil To Build New Factory Out at Airport Industrial Complex

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Pity about the transit links though

Well I am all for decent jobs coming to South Auckland and the economic benefits they will give. This news piece from Auckland Airport yesterday certainly caught my attention.

From Auckland Airport:

Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand to build manufacturing facility at Auckland Airport’s Business Park

16 June 2015

Coca–Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ), the company that makes and sells Coca–Cola drinks and other leading beverages in New Zealand, is establishing a manufacturing operation at The Landing Business Park at Auckland Airport

The move will see Auckland Airport develop a purpose-built, high-tech, 12,000sqm warehouse to accommodate an addition to CCANZ’s manufacturing footprint.

Chris Litchfield, Managing Director of CCANZ, says the company is excited to partner with Auckland Airport on the development of this new facility.

“Auckland Airport has the ability to deliver a product which meets our specific requirements.  We need to consolidate a number of operations into one, meaning that we require a location that ticks all the boxes in terms of connectivity, security and accessible amenities,” says Mr Litchfield.

“We also value the investment that Auckland Airport has outlaid to develop the area into a world-class business park.  CCANZ is committed to producing the best quality beverages and this new facility at Auckland Airport will enable us to continue to achieve this and complements our existing manufacturing operations.”

Mark Thomson, Auckland Airport’s general manager property, says, “The move by CCANZ to Auckland Airport highlights the quality of our real estate products and our ability to tailor solutions to unique customer requirements.”

“We are focused on creating a business environment that caters to a wide range of users.  Our extensive land-holdings allow Auckland Airport to tailor bespoke solutions, not only for traditional logistics activities but also for technology users and selected manufacturers, such as CCANZ,” continues Mr Thomson.

“What remains constant in all of our developments is our emphasis on creating quality buildings within a comprehensively planned and world-class environment, as well as providing outstanding amenity for our customers and their staff.”

“CCANZ is one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific with a portfolio that consists of several leading household brands.  We are thrilled that CCANZ has entrusted Auckland Airport as its property partner,” finishes Mr Thomson.

Further Information

About The Landing Business Park at Auckland Airport

New Zealand’s leading industrial business park offers a world of limitless opportunity.  World-class facilities and infrastructure set amongst expansive landscaped open spaces define The Landing – here you can design and build facilities that are uniquely you.

About Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand

Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ) is a fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturer which employs more than one-thousand people located at several manufacturing locations across the country. It produces, markets and sells a number of its own beverage brands, such as L&P and Pump, and is the authorised manufacturer and distributor of The Coca-Cola Company’s products in New Zealand. It has responsibility for a variety of beverage brands ranging from soft drinks to water, sports and energy drinks, juices, fruit products, coffee and premium beers.

It is part of the ASX-listed Coca-Cola Amatil Group, which is one of the top five Coca-Cola bottlers in the world, and also has operations in Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

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Source: http://www.aucklandairport.co.nz/Corporate/NewsAndMedia/AllMediaReleases/Coca-Cola-Amatil-New-Zealand-to-build-manufacturing-facility-at-Auckland-Airports-Business-Park.aspx

Great to see continued job opportunities in South Auckland. Pity the transport links are absolutely crap out there and the only way to really get there is by car.

Maybe Auckland Transport need to get cracking with better buses until Auckland Airport gets cracking with the Airport Rail Line once the City Rail Link is complete (2025).

Input Sought on Alcohol Ban Areas

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Public Input Open

From Auckland Council:

Public input sought on Alcohol Ban areas

Auckland Council is seeking feedback from the public on alcohol ban areas under the Alcohol Control Bylaw 2014.

The bylaw, a requirement under the Local Government Act, requires Auckland to review more than 1,700 existing alcohol bans by 31 October 2015 and to only retain those that meet stricter national criteria.  Any bans not reviewed by this time or without sufficient evidence to retain, will lapse.

Local Boards have been given the delegation to review the existing alcohol bans in their local board area. Additionally, council will review 17 bans on areas of regional significance including Maunga (volcanic cones) and regional facilities such as the Auckland Domain.

“The public is familiar with the concept of alcohol bans. Council has evidence on some bans that can stay in place but we need our community to let us know of any concerns regarding alcohol-related issues in other ban areas if they wish to retain them,” says Cr Calum Penrose, Chair of the Regulatory and Bylaws Committee.

Submissions open on Friday, 19 June 2015.  To keep an alcohol ban, submissions should be accompanied by evidence of crime or disorder attributed to alcohol and specific to an existing ban area.

Examples of alcohol-related crime or disorder include:

  • alcohol-related broken glass and/or litter
  • inappropriate behaviour as a result of drinking alcohol (people congregating in public places, drinking alcohol and being noisy and disruptive to neighbours
  • people drinking alcohol which leads to aggressive, intimidating or offensive behaviours towards others.
Further Information
Local Boards seeking feedback:

  • Albert-Eden, Devonport-Takapuna, Franklin, Henderson-Massey, Howick, Mangere-Otahuhu, Manurewa, Maungakiekie-Tamaki, Orakei, Otara-Papatoetoe, Puketapapa, Papakura, Waiheke, Waitemata, Whau.

Remaining Local Boards:

  • The remaining local boards are able to retain the key alcohol ban areas they want due to evidence gathered.  Great Barrier LB did not have an alcohol ban.

Submission information:

Alcohol bans: submissions open 19 June and close 17 July.

A copy of the Alcohol Control Bylaw, FAQs and submission form can be found:

  • Online at www.shapeauckland.co.nz
  • Call our customer services team on 09 301 0101 and at council libraries/service centres

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Council Seeks a Community Housing Partner

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Council is second largest provider of such housing behind Central Government

From Auckland Council

Council seeks community housing partner

A partnership with a community housing provider could offer long-term security to existing tenants, improved services and a significant increase in the number of homes in Auckland Council’s social housing portfolio.

The Auckland Development Committee has agreed to engage with the Community Housing sector to explore a partnership model for providing accommodation for older people. Through securing a partner, Auckland Council could gain access to the Government IRRS (Income Related Rent Subsidy) which is estimated at $38 million over 10 years.

Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse says “A review of council’s housing portfolio has identified some opportunities for redevelopment that could potentially increase the amount of housing, including social housing that we can provide.

“We are committed to providing safe and secure housing for older people. By gaining a community housing partner we can explore how we develop our portfolio and extend services to tenants. Finding a partner and potentially securing Government funding means we can develop our social housing at no extra cost to Auckland ratepayers.”

Auckland Council owns 1412 Housing for Older People (HfOP) rental units and facilitates ownership of an additional 150 units known as own-your-own units. The housing portfolio covers 62 sites over 26 hectares spread across the city.

 

Further Information

  • Auckland Council is the second largest provider of social housing in the region, after Housing New Zealand.
  • Two substantive criteria to select a community housing partner are the ability of the partner to access the IRRS by being a registered Community Housing Provider and having the necessary experience in the provision of social housing, including tenancy and assets management.

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Auckland Businesses and Council to Explore Global Opportunities

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Trip to LA to Talk Business

From The Office of the Mayor Len Brown

Auckland businesses explore global opportunities

Mayor Len Brown and Councillors Bill Cashmore and Denise Krum are to lead a delegation representing 43 Auckland businesses taking part in the inaugural Tripartite Economic Alliance Summit in Los Angeles.
The summit next week will give the delegates the opportunity to explore business and investment opportunities with contacts from Los Angeles and Guangzhou, with the aim of bringing greater investment to Auckland.
“Auckland is New Zealand’s only global city and we are fast becoming a significant innovation hub in the Asia-Pacific region. The summit gives us the chance to build our trade and economic relations; to create exciting export opportunities for the participating businesses: and share knowledge in the crucial areas of transport and housing.”

The delegation will include Auckland businesses from the sectors of education, innovation such as ICT, clean/green technologies, transportation and screen/creative.

The contribution to the Auckland economy in terms of GDP of these sectors is $10.8 billion (in 2010 dollars); accounting for 17 per cent of the total Auckland economy, and 36 per cent of Auckland’s employment (in 2013).

“The connections we will make on this trip in turn will lead to job creation and help grow our economy,” Mayor Brown adds.

ATEED Chief Executive Brett O’Riley says Auckland’s economic growth agency will implement a three-year business and investment attraction strategy to seize opportunities delivered by the Tripartite.

“It is not about a summit once a year. We aim to deliver long-term outcomes from an ongoing business programme. The 2013 America’s Cup regatta was the catalyst for an expanded emphasis on California for Auckland’s world-class emerging tech and screen and digital companies,” Mr O’Riley says.

The summit follows the signing in November 2014 of the historic Tripartite Economic Alliance, designed to boost economic co-operation between the three cities.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown says Guangzhou and Los Angeles are Auckland’s most well-established and economically important sister cities.

Prior to the summit, the Mayor will be attending a World Cities Summit mayoral forum in New York.

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New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects – Auckland, Guangzhou & Los Angeles Tripartite Economic Alliance Summit

Auckland’s architecture and landscape architecture bodies are delighted to support Mayor Len Brown’s

promotion of a ‘Design Led City’ at the upcoming Tripartite Economic Alliance Summit in Los Angeles.

The summit, to be hosted by Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, will also be attended by the Mayor of

Guangzhou, as well as business leaders and companies from all three cities. The theme, Innovation –

Commercialism and Connectivity, will explore a range of subjects including renewable energy, transportation

and infrastructure, of which architects and landscape architects have a keen interest in promoting.

New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) president, Shannon Bray, says that ‘the meeting is a

chance to support Auckland Council in the promotion of design–‐led outcomes for the advancement of our city.

The NZILA supports Auckland’s widely shared vision to become the world’s most liveable city, and believes that

this can be achieved through high standards of urban spatial design and architecture.’

Mr Bray will be attending the summit as joint representative of both the NZILA and the New Zealand Institute

of Architects, and sees this coming together of the professions as an important collaboration. ‘It is important

that as design professionals we work together with Auckland Council to find innovative and creative solutions

to the city’s transportation and infrastructure needs’.

The recent entering of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize is an important step in the recognition of the exciting

work undertaken to date, including the development of vibrant public spaces such as the Wynyard Quarter,

shared spaced streets such as Elliot Street, and the advancement of Auckland transport initiatives such as train

electrification.

Mr Bray says that the collaborative involvement of members of both the architecture and landscape

architecture professions in the design of future Auckland projects, such as the City Rail Link, future Harbour

Crossing and public open spaces is crucial to the enhancement of the city. ‘Together we can create a city that is

both enjoyable to live in and functional to travel across’.

‘The tripartite initiative is a catalyst for the promotion of high quality design’ says Mr Bray. ‘We look forward

to being involved in the sharing of information with our sister cities, as well as developing stronger

relationships with our worldwide colleagues facing similar design considerations. Auckland, and New Zealand,

should be proud of the quality of our urban environments.’

The tripartite summit is being held in Los Angeles 10th – 12th June, and will be attended by a range of Auckland

Council, Government and private company representatives.

Further information on the summit can be found at http://laedc.org/ts/, on the New Zealand Institute of

Landscape Architects at www.nzila

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Bus Console Batteries to be Replaced

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Thales to replace batteries after driver injured

From Auckland Transport

Bus console batteries replaced

Consoles on Auckland’s bus fleet are being modified after an incident yesterday in which a driver was taken to hospital with facial injuries.

A malfunction within a console, which is used to store ticket and route information, caused a plastic casing to fly off, injuring the driver.

The fault was with an internal lithium battery.

Thales Australia, which installed and maintains the machines, recommended they be replaced with upgraded batteries, which have a short-circuit fail-safe. Technicians are being flown in and the new batteries will be fitted on buses by Saturday.

AT also wants Thales Australia to look at modifications to the console casings.

Incidents involving faulty batteries of this type are rare worldwide.

“We don’t believe this is a systemic issue but rather a freak accident. Thales have never had any experience of an incident like this and they advise the possibility of a similar event is extremely low, and reduced even further with the latest fail-safe battery” says AT’s Chief Executive, David Warburton.

Since the machines were installed last year, Auckland’s 1150 buses have travelled an estimated 46 million kilometres (or approximately 1.9 million hours on the road).

Mr Warburton has also expressed concern for the bus driver involved whose welfare is being looked after by his employers.

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