Wellington Scoop / January 2023
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Not just a bookshop
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- As Wellington mourns the loss (at the end of March) of one of its oldest bookshops, there’s agreement that Vic Books is in fact … not just a bookshop.
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Vic Books, Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What’s going on at Te Motu Kairangi?
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- Ian Cassels’ Wellington Company and Taranaki Whānui need to throw a much clearer light on their development plans for the Miramar Peninsula/Te Motu Kairangi, as reported in a front-page DomPost article, beyond PR puffery. At present, the waters are decidedly murky.
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Mount Crawford Prison (former), Nevay Road, Karaka Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A park? Or houses? Or both?
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- A regional park above Shelly Bay on the Miramar Peninsula? Or houses? Or is there room for both? A DomPost report today says that hundreds of new homes could be fast tracked on the Peninsula. Michael Daly writes that iwi Taranaki Whānui and developer Ian Cassels are applying for consent to build 600 to 700 houses on 8 hectares of the former Mt Crawford Prison which closed in 2012.
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Mount Crawford Prison (former), Nevay Road, Karaka Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A year of slips
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- It was Wellington’s year of slips. There were 900 EQC claims for land damage in Wellington, after the exceptional winter rain. MetService’s weather station in Wellington had its wettest year since records began in 1928. The city council counted 550 slips in a six week period, 150 of them within two days
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