Throw the case out and start again? As the East West Link Board of Inquiry continues it seems a rather piece of damning revelation has come out from the … Continue reading NZTA Caught Telling Porkies over the East West Link? NZTA Used Inaccurate Visuals In Consent for EWL
What do residents have preferences for Yesterday in Amenities and Residential Development. What Goes Missing When Planning? I wrote: A question often asked in the real world as well as Cities Skylines: How … Continue reading Amenities and Residential Development. What Goes Missing When Planning? Part Two
Different styles give different results Simon Wilson of The Spinoff – Auckland division delivered a cracker into Mayor Phil Goff pretty much missing the boat on putting Auckland front … Continue reading Len and Phil: Two Very Different Approaches to the America’s Cup
Turn Queen Street into a true Golden Mile Given the amount of times Queen Street is closed for parades and protests without City traffic going to hell in a … Continue reading What is Stopping Queen Street Becoming a World Class Pedestrian Mall? Nothing but NIMBYs and Politics
Time for safer humane speeds A debate about Te Wero Island being flipped from parking spaces into a park generated this response from Pippa Coom in regard with Wynyard … Continue reading Wynyard Quarter Goes 30km/h. Time For Residential Streets to do the same
Government over-riding due process From the Office of the Mayor Phil Goff and the Chair of Maungakiekie- Tāmaki Local Board Josephine Bartle: Aucklanders denied say on Point England’s future The Mayor … Continue reading Passing of Point England Bill Disappoints
Last update before refresh While I continue my research assignment (On Assignment – Researching NZ Housing and Critiques to our Planning System) I went looking through the Auckland Plan Implementation … Continue reading Latest Auckland Plan Implementation Update (2016). Hit and Miss on Targets. UPDATED
Local Board Chair not amused From Josephine Bartley, Chair Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board. With the change in Local Government in Auckland in 2010 the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board is responsible for local … Continue reading Point England Reserve Bill Further Frays Nerves as Minister Dictates on Local Matters
Another chance at an informal say Currently the Auckland (Spatial) Plan is out on targeted consultation and will be seeking formal feedback from the Local Boards from next week … Continue reading Auckland Plan Refresh: Local Boards Feedback, Another Opportunity For Your Say
An outside the box idea to an upper North Island situation A recent article in The Listener on how things went so very wrong with Auckland (mainly due to … Continue reading Why Wellington Should Be Removed Out of Regional Matters – Granting Auckland Semi Autonomy
Talking Southern Auckland 