Making best use of all worlds While attention is focused on City Centre to Mangere Light Rail and the potential to uplift the City Centre (especially in terms of … Continue reading A Transit Line, A Transit Orientated Development, And Affordable Housing? 100,000 Residents in Manukau? No Sweat! #TransformManukau Part 30
First major step under way to revitalise Onehunga It has been a suspenseful few weeks waiting for the grand announcement about Transform Onehunga and it finally arrived yesterday with … Continue reading Council Aquires Onehunga Wharf: #TransformOnehunga Formally Begins with Panuku Putting it Back on Track
ATEED Revives Te Papa North After excitement in 2013 that Manukau would get a satellite campus from Te Papa – the national museum in Wellington it was a bit … Continue reading Te Papa North Comes Back Onto the Cards after Three Years Being Put Off. Will Manukau Get its Creative Hub? #TransformManukau Part 29
New affordable homes right in South Auckland’s Core Today I was privileged to see the marking of a new affordable housing build right in the core of Southern Auckland … Continue reading #OurManukau Barrowcliffe Development (Kōtuitui Place) Sees 300 New Homes. Part 28 of #TransformManukau
Utrecht embarks on regeneration like Transform Manukau. Could the Dutch have Ideas for Us? As Transform Manukau continues along (although with some poor initial outcomes – Manukau Bus Station … Continue reading #ourmanukau – Dutch Ideas (Utrecht Overvecht) Could Help Transform Manukau #TransformManukau Part 27
Opportunity does await Last week Manurewa-Papakura Ward Councillor Daniel Newman and Manurewa Local Board Angela Dalton made an impassioned plea to the Finance Committee of Auckland Council to have … Continue reading Should Manurewa and Papakura Become Unlocks or Transforms (Urban Regeneration)?
Urban regeneration still a pickle, I say no to Manurewa Local Board From Auckland Council: Committee votes to progress urban development – Decision Digest – Finance and Performance committee Published: 20 … Continue reading UPDATE: Finance and Performance Committee March 18 Digests: Urban Regeneration and No to Manurewa Local Board
Best we have towards a full blown Planning Ministry It has been known before and post election that the (current) Minister of Transport, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Phil … Continue reading My Ideal central Urban Development Authority
Takapuna Metro Centre gets over the line From Auckland Council: Committee votes to revitalise major town centres The Planning Committee gave the green light today to plans that will … Continue reading Planning Committee Decision Digests March 18: Town Centre Regeneration Proceeds, Takapuna Metropolitan Centre Gets Over the Line
Main Street in Manukau next to bus station gets streetscape upgrade From Panuku Development Auckland: Pedestrian-friendly main street for Manukau The upgrade of Putney Way into a pedestrian-friendly main … Continue reading #ourmanukau – Putney Way to Get Upgrade – to become a People’s Space #TransformManukau Part 25
