Issues and Election Candiates 2010
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Our community housing
- Mark Greening
- The Wellington Housing Trust sent a survey on housing affordability to all candidates.
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We don’t need poor quality infill housing
- Hutt Chick
- The last thing residents need is a relaxation in planning regulations as suggested by Mayor Odgen.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Tackling tagging
- 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.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- crime
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Patrol
- 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.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- crime
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Encroachments Episode Four (Final)
- Sharon Blaikie
- Councillors hearing submissions on the encroachment policy said that they hadn't realised the proposed changes would have on individual ratepayers.
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- town-belt-encroachments
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Encroachments Three
- Sharon Blaikie
- Well for many years the Wellington City Council has charged ratepayers who beautify or build garages over Council embankments or roadside verges anything from about thirty to a few hundred dollars a year.
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- town-belt-encroachments
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Encroachments - Episode Two
- Sharon Blaikie
- Sidewalk cafes have graced the pavements of Europe for centuries.
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Its a money grab
- 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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How do think you get healthy and safe communities?
- 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
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Councillors happy with high numbers of Pokies
- Hutt Chick
- A report in the Hutt News showed there are problems with the number of pokie machines in Lower Hutt, but councillors will not do anything to change the status quo.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington is facing rising sea levels
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- At the Wellington City Council Strategy and Policy Committee briefing of December 1 we were shown a computer model of the areas of Wellington that would be flooded by sea level rise as a consequence of global warming. One of the areas that may be impacted is the site of the Indoor Sports Centre. There is no doubt there will be consequences that will be beyond our control even if Wellington were to reduce green house gas emissions.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- indoor-sports-centre
ASB Sports Centre, Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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PUT THE INDOOR SPORTS CENTRE ON HOLD - Cr Pepperell
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- I have consistently warned that we face serious economic times over the last six years. Furthermore I’m of the belief that we are about to take a turn for the worse and that we must face affordability issues in a more urgent way.
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- indoor-sports-centre
ASB Sports Centre, Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Update on save the point / the true cost to the ratepayers
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- I'm picking this has cost the ratepayers over 1.5 million dollars so far. This does not include the $7 million non-recourse loan towards building MEC. Opponents have had to meet legal and experts' costs of over $200,000 plus time of the core of volunteers and expert witnesses who gave their time, etc gratis.
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- marine-education-centre
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Save the point has won in the environment court
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- In 2000 I began one of my longest political battles . Yesterday it finished in the Environment Court with a ruling that the South Coast is not an appropriate place for an Aquarium. In that time I was supported only by Cr David Zwartz. In 2004 I was joined by Cr Jack Ruben in my opposition. This proposal divided the community. While the political battle was raging and we were overwhelmed by a developer friendly Council, Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point was formed. It was this group that in the end won the day.
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- island-bay
- marine-education-centre
Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Te Rae Kai Hau Point - Keep It Natural!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- This is my seventh year in the battle to Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point. As seven is a special number I see this as a positive year to do things. It has been seven years where many people have played a part in opposing the shameful proposed Marine Education Centre ( Fish Zoo and Cafe) on this wonderful piece of natural heritage.
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Manufacturing Consent in The Capital / Media Collusion in Wellington?
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- This week in the Capital's politics the temperature rose steeply over the District Plan and infill housing. That was driven by the City's news maker the Dompost with a series of reports designed to give a favourable impression of a Council that has been papering over the cracks of a permissive District Plan.
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Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point 2007
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The $22 m cost of this project(the fish zoo) continues to escalate due to its proposed location at Te Rae Kai Hau Point and the need to protect the building from the relentless force of the sea. Not only will ratepayers be press-ganged into paying the inevitable shortfalls and ongoing costs, we will lose our precious natural heritage to so called environmentalists.
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Save Te Raekaihau Point
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Come and help the Save the Point Group raise funds for their legal battle against the destruction of an iconic headland on our South Coast by joining them for a glass of wine and the chance to view the movie from the Wellington Film Festival everyone is talking about, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
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