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A grey new look for Civic Square
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Food trucks? Fountains? Civic Square confusion
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A loss is a loss
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Singing for the Begonia House
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Begonia House, Serpentine Way, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Secret or not? WCC discusses recruitment, and Civic Square
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Not too late to save Civic Square
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New generation of campaigners
- Wellington Scoop
- A new generation of city campaigners emerged last week, when a group of Wellington College students launched a campaign to oppose over-development in Civic Square.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A trip to the Empire above Pae Kawakawa
- Wellington Scoop
- Last Sunday my family found ourselves unexpectedly home early from a class noho marae. So we ended up doing a cycling trip to the Empire Cinema in Island Bay to see Encanto Reo Māori. Because the cycleway connection in Berhampore is only half built, we took a short-cut from our home in Berhampore to get to the Parade. The kids were very keen, as they always are, to get their “bikes on the road.” These streets from Adelaide Road in Berhampore to the Parade in Island Bay, Tapu te Ranga, are another group of city streets built above waterways. The Pae Kawakawa stream starts near Macalister Park and runs along these roads with feeder streams in Mornington and Southgate as well.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Metlink Still Doesn't Like Ōwhiro Bay (or te reo)
- Salient
- While Metlink reports an overall 79% satisfaction with its public transport service, public transport advocacy group Better Buses Ōwhiro Bay (BBŌW) argues their suburb is being left behind. Mimicking the questions Metlink uses during its satisfaction survey, BBŌW’s own survey found 84% of Ōwhiro Bay residents were dissatisfied with the coverage the suburb receives. Comparatively, only 10% of Metlink’s region-wide survey recipients expressed dissatisfaction.
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Owhiro Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What we want for Stride’s J’ville Mall
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Johnsonville Shopping Centre, Bill Cutting Place, Johnsonville East, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Student Health On Break From Pipitea Campus
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- Student Health has gone exclusive with Kelburn campus, temporarily leaving Pipitea citing a GP shortage.
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Free ride to Khandallah
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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City Bus Service Blindspots: Ōwhiro Bay Residents Develop Killer Calves
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- Ōwhiro Bay has been abandoned by the bus network, according to a new report. During off-peak times, it takes two buses and over 45 minutes to get from Ōwhiro Bay to the city centre. The suburb is disproportionately affected by bus cancellations. Its residents are fed up. Now, they’ve taken matters into their own hands, writing a twenty-thousand-word report to prove their own experience. Jack Graham and Arunan Noble are both Ōwhiro Bay residents and, in the spirit of full disclosure, friends of the author. They both live with their parents while studying at VUW. After many years of being disappointed by the bus system, hope was initially raised when Metlink announced incoming improvements at the start of 2024.
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Owhiro Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cuba Street Meal Steals
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- Served by Bianca Maria Schioler (she/her) Kia ora tātou and welcome back to another season of Meal Steals which your StudyLink budget won’t kick up a fuss about. On today’s menu we’re going to take a trip to the famous Cuba Street, well known to any Wellingtonian as the street for excellent food and creative expression. Sadly, Covid-19 saw the closure of many iconic Cuba Street restaurants, and only a few new ones have popped up in their place in the following years. However, we can contribute to making Cuba Street the same vibrant, cultural-mixing glass of culinary excellence it once was by taking to the streets, and filling our tummies.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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No swimming – 15 wasted years
- Wellington Scoop
- Sixteen years ago, the Wellington city council said it didn’t want to have a large empty building site in Mt Cook. A year later it got what it didn’t want. And the large empty building site in Mt Cook has stayed empty for fifteen years. The prime site has been empty since the city council allowed the Boys Institute swimming pool to be demolished to make way for a supermarket. Only the street frontage remained.
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Boys' Institute & S.A.Rhodes Home For Boys, Tasman Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Saving Petone’s wharf
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Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Defending Civic Square
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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More Pedestrians on Cuba St Will Destroy Business, Say Campaigners
- Salient
- A coalition of business owners on Cuba St are petitioning the Council to reconsider its plan to remove 20 car parks along the stretch of road between Ghuznee and Vivian. Organised by (unsuccessful) Lambton Ward candidate and famed Kaffee Eis creamslinger, Karl Tiefenbacher, the “Park It” campaign hinges itself on business owners arguing that losing the 20 car parks will make a significant impact on their profit margins. “The thing to remember is that a lot of people walk here, obviously, and I get stupid statements like, ‘cars don’t spend money, people do’, but cars don’t drive themselves either, so every car brings an extra person to Cuba St,” he told Salient. “You know, we’re selling a low cost product, and we need a lot of turnover, so if we lose something like 10% of our business [by having no car parks], that’s enough to send us under.”
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: After the Storm
- Salient
- Emma Salzano's After the Storm was originally a project created at Te Auaha, then went through a development season as a Lift-Off piece, and now it's making its world premiere at the New Zealand Fringe Festival. And let me tell you, I'm thrilled that it's back. It's been quite some time since I've seen a play that has genuinely touched me. And I don't say this to be disrespectful, but perhaps to acknowledge my own desensitisation towards such things. After the Storm changed that. Maybe I'm just a sucker for a good love story. But this play is more than just a romance; at its core, it's about grief and how our emotions shape our lives. The story takes place in the 1930s and follows a group of Italian immigrants who leave their volcanic island of Stromboli and start anew on the shores of Island Bay.
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Te Auaha, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Berhampore home with a Swiss twist
- Capital Magazine
- From native wood floorboards to hidden craftsmanship, Orane and Olivier got lucky when they renovated their weatherboard cottage. We take a look around. The post The Berhampore home with a Swiss twist appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Going bush with Ōtari-Wilton’s manger Tim Park
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- Return to childhood memories. Tim Park talks to Hannah Zwartz about his work with endangered species. The post Going bush with Ōtari-Wilton’s manger Tim Park appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Ōtari-Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Exhibit Gallery founders show us why it’s good to be a little impulsive
- Capital Magazine
- Everything seemed to fall into place for friends Lucy Jackson and Allen Maher. From their first meeting to the decision to open a gallery together. The post Exhibit Gallery founders show us why it’s good to be a little impulsive appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Why silence is golden inside a Quaker meeting house
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- After a dalliance with Quakerism in his late teens, several decades later Craig Beardsworth visits a Quaker meeting house, to find out what first attracted him. The post Why silence is golden inside a Quaker meeting house appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Moncrieff Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Seeing the potential in a damp house with a wonky floor
- Capital Magazine
- Calling this house a "doer-upper" is a bit of an understatement. Find out how one couple took on this intense DIY project and came out the other side. The post Seeing the potential in a damp house with a wonky floor appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Why one couple swapped Hollywood for Wellywood
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- Our cool little capital has a way of pulling people back. The Dunhams tell us why they returned to windy Wellington after 20 years and show us around their Seatoun home. The post Why one couple swapped Hollywood for Wellywood appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Seatoun
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Nursery Rhymes
- Capital Magazine
- New parents Nicola and Reuben have used their combined knowledge of art and design to style their Miramar home, and give their spare room a dream jungle makeover. The post Nursery Rhymes appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Climb the many stairs to the house on the hill
- Capital Magazine
- We promise it's worth it for the view. The Thurston family tell us what they love about their about their renovated home. The post Climb the many stairs to the house on the hill appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Unchained Melody: An ode to Newtown Market
- Capital Magazine
- With the cost of food soaring Melody Thomas puts forward a case for buying at your local vegetable market. If you can handle it. The post Unchained Melody: An ode to Newtown Market appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Tongan artist tong-popping from his Lyall Bay bungalow
- Capital Magazine
- Telly Tuita has home down to a fine art. From Tonga, to Sydney, to Wellington, he tells us how a beach bungalow became the place for him. The post The Tongan artist tong-popping from his Lyall Bay bungalow appeared first on Capital Magazine.
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Lyall Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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