Has Goff done the deal with the Nats? The scuttlebutt has lit up Twitter since The NBR, and Political Science academic Dr Bryce Edwards alluded to earlier on today … Continue reading Scuttlebutt Abound on a Goff-Simpson Mayor, Deputy Mayor Ticket #Auckland2016
Adjournment until December 21 From Auckland Council: Auckland Council continues action to recover rates from Penny Bright Auckland Council is today continuing action to recover outstanding rates and penalties … Continue reading Council vs Penny Bright Continues #AKLPols
Does the opening of the North West Mall in Westgate have wider implications ? The recent opening of DNZ’s new North West Mall in Westgate (north-west Auckland) has attracted … Continue reading DEBATE POINT: Wesgate-North West Mall and Any Implications to Wider Auckland Planning #AKLPols
Auckland Ratepayers Alliance Briefing Paper needs to be Peer Reviewed to hold any authenticity The Auckland Ratepayers Alliance seems to have commissioned a report and subsequent briefing on Auckland … Continue reading To Be Authentic the ARA Briefing Paper Needs to Undergo Full Peer Review
Unitary Plan Hearings Panel Directs Council to rerun and peer review Auckland Council Development Capacity 2015 Model AGAIN! The issue of how much existing urban Auckland can take in … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan: Oh Council Wont Like This With the Development Capacity Model Being “Pinged”
Basically “NO” On Thursday the Governing Body of Auckland Council will consider a Notice of Motion to revoke a Special Housing Area (SHA) in Mangere (Notice of Motion to Revoke … Continue reading Nick Smith’s Warning on Revoking Special Housing Areas #AKLPols
#Auckland2016 – looking to the future not the rear vision mirror Councillors behaving badly, Councillors being absent from crucial committees and workshops, a mayor who needs to rationalise and not … Continue reading Wanted: One Competent Council and One Visionary but Prudent Mayor #AKLPols #Auckland 2016
Time to shine the light in preparation for #Auckland2016 Metro Magazine ran a brilliant piece on Auckland needing a Mayor post 2016. Metro also had this to say on the … Continue reading Your City Leaders Behaving (In)Appropriately #Auckland2016 #AKLPols
Try on current proposed provisions 316,000 (approximate) short Finally the updated Residential Capacity Model has come out for submitters to use in their Hearings, and for the Unitary Plan Panel … Continue reading Unitary Plan Falls Very Short of Enabling Those 400,000 Homes Needed by 2041
Labour bottles the narrative on an actual valid point That valid point was there is a demand side issue fuelling Auckland’s housing situation (as well as a supply side (something … Continue reading Political Management 101 – Never Bottle the Narrative
Talking Southern Auckland 