All about the budget As Winston Peters announces which way he will well swing today (Labour or National) I have a short but sharp message when it comes … Continue reading Talk is Cheap. Transport Authorities Need to Put Money Where Their Mouth Is With Transport
People first Given the carnage on the roads and our urban areas just being plain ugly for people to walk about it is time to have a talk about … Continue reading Time to Talk Speed – That is Residential Speed Limits Being Lowered
Devil is in the detail Yesterday the National Party announced rather quietly that it would if re-elected it would move to create legislation specifically for urban planning taking it … Continue reading National Proposes Separate Urban Environment Legislation Away From Resource Management Act
Quake dents Kiwi Rail Financials For those who say rail is not viable I have this from Kiwi Rail: Earthquake doesn’t diminish strong KiwiRail result 25 August 2017 12:12PM … Continue reading Kiwi Rail Posts $52m Surplus
What are these contraptions NOTE: This post was written in 2017, and needs to be updated for the 2025 environment! In my Regional Rapid Rail, Inter-Regional Planning, and a … Continue reading The Planning (Super) Ministry and the NZIA. What Are They?
On assignment – blogging slow down I have embarked on a research assignment for the University of Waikato looking in the critiques of the Planning system and its effects … Continue reading On Assignment – Researching NZ Housing and Critiques to our Planning System
New Scholarships Awarded From Housing New Zealand: Housing New Zealand awards new scholarships to future public housing professionals Housing New Zealand last night awarded the first of its annual … Continue reading Bright Future Ahead for Public Housing Pro’s. Housing NZ Awards New Scholarships
Galling or prudent? The announcement of $53m to be spent at the World Expo in 2020 managed to rile both sides of the political spectrum up one way or … Continue reading A Matter of Priorities: How Would You Spend $53m?
Divide up into smaller pieces By now you would have seen the doom and gloom Herald articles about the Isthmus’s sewer network spilling sewerage into the harbours on a … Continue reading How to Handle Auckland’s Growth: Do We Divide Up or Go All In?
Tauranga could learn from Auckland example After Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers wrote a lot of tripe (you could say Alternative Facts) how Tauranga should be an example of how … Continue reading Tauranga Suburban Dystopia: Could Learn Urbanism from Auckland
Talking Southern Auckland 