Blogs / March 2024
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Khandallah’s new mega-development
- Eye of the Fish
- Wellington has long been nicknamed the “mini-Manhattan” for its shimmering high-rises sitting on the edge of the harbour. Recent changes to the District Plan will...
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Ngakau Nui
- Eye of the Fish
- So, finally today we had the news that we all knew was going to happen one day – that the Pink Council building (WCC’s CAB)...
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Wellington Housing
- Eye of the Fish
- So, a decision has been made by the Councillors of the WCC – let’s hope it was the right call. I’m not jumping for joy,...
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Save A Spider Day 2024 🕷️
- Te Papa's blog
- You may be surprised to learn March 14 is Save A Spider Day. As they are not always the most popular of animals, some readers may be wondering why on Earth anybody would want to save spiders at all! In this blog, our spider man and spider fan Dr PhilRead more
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How we got here: housing
- Talk Wellington
- There’s a lot written about housing in Aotearoa New Zealand but one piece we’d recommend in early 2024… It’s a piece by Eleanor West and Marko Garlick, pillars of the Wellington pro-density urbanism movement A City For People. It’s called Upzoning New Zealand, published in the online magazine Works In Progress. The standfirst says it...
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ComicFest 2024 is Sat 4 May! Register your interest
- Wellington City Libraries
- This May 4th 2024, Wellington City Libraries in association with the National Library of New Zealand, will be celebrating 10… Continue reading ComicFest 2024 is Sat 4 May! Register your interest →
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Cool events coming up!
- Talk Wellington
- There’s a swag of neat events in Pōneke in the week of 18-20 March… They’re being organised around the 2WalkandCycle conference, and are open to the public! Check out the array in this PDF. They’re labelled “industry events” but we reckon they’re great for anyone nerdy about walking, cycling, scooting, and how they fuel great...
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Some February-March happenings
- Talk Wellington
- It’s always busy at this time of year but there’s an extra lot happening right now! Talk Wellington tries to keep up with this roundup, and please add things we’ve missed… By the way, we highly recommend Greater Auckland’s weekly roundup, always featuring lots of nationally-relevant stuff as well as Tāmaki-Makaurau things. Bus boardings across...
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Is a Prime Minster Entitled to a Nice House?
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s been a lot about this house in the news recently – both the paper kind of news, and the TV kind of news. May as well get my news from proper news sources while they exist, seeing as it sounds like soon nothing is going to exist in the news world. What will we do when 3News and OneNews are ditched, and Stuff has gone bust again? Its hard enough to even buy a paper these days, as increasingly nowhere sells them. What do we do in the future – just make up our own news as we go? Seems to be working fine for some people! Anyway, THIS is the house in question:
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Premier House, 260, Tinakori Road, Paekākā, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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