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    • Tackling tagging
      • 1 Sep 2010
      • Hutt Chick
      • Graffiti vandalism is a problem for many councils around the world, costing lots of money to tackle, and many struggle to keep it in check.
      • Tagged as:
      • crime

      • This Hutt Chick newsitem has 2 comments.

        • ‘Thanks Peter. Point taken.’
        • ‘Down by the Huttriver Good post; I support all your comments. Problem is that taggers do not get a decent sentence, Dress them in pink, humiliate them, and make them paint out tags. Grafitti, tagging, whatever, is wilful damage! Just remember the name o’

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    • Patrol
      • 23 Aug 2010
      • Hutt Chick
      • wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I arrived at the police station. The others were waiting. I got into the waiting patrol car, and buckled up. I was going out on community patrol in Naenae. Community patrols work alongside police to build safer communities, providing an extra set of eyes and ears. We drove a random route but to some set areas, through schools, up alleyways behind businesses, making sure the streets were safe and providing a visual deterrent for tagging and other crime.
      • Tagged as:
      • crime

      • This Hutt Chick newsitem has 2 comments.

        • ‘There is a community patrol in Eastbourne too, but a big gap between Eastbourne and Naenae. Yes, decided to stand as I am keen to make a difference and give something back to the community. Felt this was the best way.’
        • ‘There are community patrols based in Taita and Naenae – they work with the Naenae police. The taita patrol is based in the taita community police base. Noted you are standing for council. good effort. I stood twice unsuccessfully during the 80′s. Peter.’

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        • HuttNZ RT @wellynews: Hutt Chick - Patrol http://tinyurl.com/2vepun9

    • Encroachment Policy Update
      • 23 Aug 2010
      • Wellington City Council
      • Councillors have decided further work needs to be done on the Road Encroachments and Sale Policy review. The public feedback received over the last few months has highlighted how complex and varied every individual situation is - especially when it comes to facilitating Council land sales to private owners - and they need to evaluate further.
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      • Tagged as:
      • town belt encroachments

    • Its a money grab
      • 28 Jul 2010
      • Mark Greening
      • Anyone have a balcony on their apartment? Does it encroach over council land (eg, footpaths, roads, etc)? Well, if you do you might be interested to learn that our council is proposing to substantially increase encroachment fees.
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      • Tagged as:
      • town belt encroachments

    • It’s a Council money grab
      • 27 Jul 2010
      • Capital Times
      • Thousands of locals could be stung with large yearly fees if Wellington City Council’s policy is changed. THE council is consulting residents on a draft of the Road Encroachment and Sale Policy, which will determine how to charge the 6,000-odd Wellingtonians who have licenses or leases to use legal road or council land for car parking, property access, and outdoor living.
      • Tagged as:
      • wellington city council
      • consultation
      • town belt encroachments

    • Sighs of relief
      • 29 Jun 2010
      • Capital Times
      • DEPUTY Mayor Ian McKinnon is glad Wellington won’t get a citywide liquor ban, but was surprised by the way some of the councillors voted. McKinnon thinks public reaction and the facts speak for themselves. The council received 604 submissions
      • Tagged as:
      • liquor ban

    • Bullshit, says the mayor to her councilors
      • 26 Jun 2010
      • Wellington Scoop
      • It didn’t seem to be a good day for Wellington Mayor Prendergast at Wednesday’s meeting of her council’s strategy and policy committee. After an amendment to the city-wide alcohol ban was proposed by Cr Wain – to limit its extension to two suburbs where there was public support for it – the mayor instructed the councilors that, by living in the city voted 12th in the world in quality of life, they should “have the guts” to vote for the city-wide ban which she favoured.
      • Accepted from feed: Wellington Scoop features
      • Tagged as:
      • wellington city council
      • liquor ban

      • This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 10 comments.

        • ‘Some Councillors (long in the tooth) bring their knitting to SPC meetings. Others (new age) bring babies, it is a circus really.’
        • ‘Thank you for the clarification, Celia, and your comments in the debate were appreciated as well.’
        • ‘Time for a change, and this may show others what she’s really like.’

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        • missprints RT @wellynews: Wellington Scoop - Bullshit, says the mayor to her councilors http://tinyurl.com/2dy2ky5

    • To ban or not to ban
      • 22 Jun 2010
      • Capital Times
      • A large majority of Wellingtonians don’t want a citywide liquor ban, but Wellington City Council officers do. The council received 604 written submissions on the proposal to amend the city’s Liquor Control Bylaw, which presented three options: to have a citywide liquor ban, no ban at all, or a ban in specified areas. Of the submissions, 76% were opposed to a blanket 24/7 liquor ban.
      • Tagged as:
      • wellington city council
      • consultation
      • liquor ban
        • newswirenz RT @wellynews: Capital Times To ban or not to ban (liquor ban voted by Wgtn council affects Newtown & Mt Cook) http://tinyurl.com/22twfws

    • The drug rules in Wellington
      • 22 Jun 2010
      • Capital Times
      • DRUG related crimes in Wellington are on the rise, and authorities on drug prevention are calling for an overhaul of the Misuse of Drugs Act. In the Capital, drug related crime has gone up 18% from 2008 to 2009, and cannabis offences are up 19% (295
      • Tagged as:
      • crime

    • Down-size me apartments
      • 2 Jun 2010
      • Capital Times
      • WELLINGTON City is in danger of becoming a modern ghetto, say concerned residents who live by the new Soho apartment development on Taranaki Street. Gus Charteris is the president of the Wellington Inner-City Residents and Business Association, and l
      • Tagged as:
      • housing
      • architecture

    • How do think you get healthy and safe communities?
      • 15 May 2010
      • Sharon Blaikie
      • By:Providing access to essential services for allMaking sure all Wellingtonians have access to housing they can afford and that is adequate for their needsEnsuring Wellington’s housing stock and the infrastructure servicing them is of high quality Supporting educational opportunitiesProviding small children with playgrounds and older children and adults with sports grounds they can access easilyMaintaining effective dog controlEncouraging tolerance and inclusiveness
      • Tagged as:
      • housing

      • This Sharon Blaikie newsitem has 2 comments.

        • ‘For me essential services include access to water, good sewerage systems, drainage that works, the ability of people to move about the city whether by car or bus or foot or cycling, clean streets and environmentally friendly refuge collection. None h ave’
        • ‘Can you list the essential services you mention?CheersJohn@Ngai’

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    • Skating on synthetic ice
      • 12 May 2010
      • Capital Times
      • The events manager who brought the last temporary ice-skating rink to Wellington says if a conventional rink is constructed at Queens Wharf it is doomed to fail. Phil Sprey managed the construction and maintenance of the ice rink at Waitangi (formerly Chaffers) Park, in 2002. He says an ice rink might make good political fodder, but it would be financially risky.
      • Tagged as:
      • ice skating rink
      • waterfront

    • A website community fights back
      • 5 May 2010
      • Wellington Scoop
      • Accepted from feed: Wellington Scoop features
      • Tagged as:
      • wcn funding

      • This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 2 comments.

        • ‘Good question – I’ll ask why we are writing letters when a submitter was happy enough to email in the submission! Regards Celia’
        • ‘An observation: I made an email submission on the council’s proposed amendment to the Liquor Control Bylaw. The council could have acknowledged this by email, but today I received a letter through NZ Post from one Sharon Bennett, of the Executive Busin’

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    • The pressure to spend more money, and the worry of a bad reputation
      • 3 May 2010
      • Wellington Scoop
      • The Wellington City Council’s waterfront company is keeping the pressure on councilors to pay for two expensive and controversial projects which haven’t yet been approved. By June next year, says Wellington Waterfront Ltd in its Statement of Intent which was given to councilors on Friday, plans for the temporary ice skating rink and the temporary sideless tent “will be significantly advanced, if not completed.”
      • Accepted from feed: Wellington Scoop features
      • Tagged as:
      • ice skating rink
      • wellington city council
      • waterfront

      • This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 10 comments.

        • ‘Oh dear! Isn’t it a pity that we live in an age where mechanisms such as blogs are able to spread misinformation with gay abandon. Where to start? Just a few comments. I have work to attend to! The reason that a very small number of people (according to ’
        • ‘As I understand not only does the Council’s Parks and Reserves tend the open spaces on the Waterfront but all events are also organised by Council. This begs the question why the Waterfront Company saw the need to increase their staff by five, two ’
        • ‘The motorhome works OK? You must be joking Celia. From casual observation, it appears that there are seldom more than a few vans on site. This must provide a poor return for a half-million dollar investment, ongoing running costs and the expenses of tw’

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    • Operation Lime sours Wellington cannabis industry
      • 28 Apr 2010
      • Wellington District Police
      • As part of the termination of the national Undercover operation "Operation Lime", 45 uniform and CIB staff from Wellington Police executed a number of search warrants at business premises and residential dwellings yesterday morning. The operation targeted businesses and individuals responsible for the commercial sale of equipment used for growing cannabis.
      • Tagged as:
      • crime

    • Zumba! Zumba! Zumba!
      • 28 Apr 2010
      • Wellington Scoop
      • he city council phoned me this week. It wanted to know what I thought about its plan for a city-wide drinking ban 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It wasn’t actually the council who called. It was a market research company, hired by the council. But the questioning were more or less unbiased, except when the researcher told me the police prefer a city-wide ban. However he didn’t push the council view.
      • Accepted from feed: Wellington Scoop features
      • Tagged as:
      • wellington city council
      • liquor ban

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