Consultation and Blogs
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Draft District Plan, Hutt City: so hot right now! Here’s your submission guide
- Talk Wellington
- Famously (amongst nerds) Hutt City is the first “city” to enable a denser, more vibrant urban environment by removing old barriers to people doing more good stuff with land – or at least proposing to. Submissions close 15 December Our experts are crafting a great submission guide for you, and it’ll be up in the...
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Let’s be less rubbish about waste – have your say pronto!
- Talk Wellington
- This one almost got away on us: the Wellington Regional Waste Management and Minimisation Plan needs your shove – closing Friday 5pm! There’s a lot of good intention in there and it’s badly needed. We are a bit rubbish about waste in New Zealand, including Wellington region. At the Southern Landfill, which has probably the...
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e-scooters: don’t ban them by accident
- Talk Wellington
- A temporary exemption in official classifications means we get to have e-scooters in NZ. But that exemption’s expiring and there’s real “baby goes out with bathwater” risk, so pop in your 2c BY 5PM MONDAY 7th! If you want to do this real quick, scroll to …. you guessed, it, our friend the typing cat!...
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Brooklyn Hill cycleway
- Eye of the Fish
- I’m all in favour of cycleways – they are a great addition to the city, and may even allow me one day to ride a...
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Brooklyn Road, Fitchettown, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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District Plan Hearings
- Eye of the Fish
- Right now Wellington is undergoing hearings on what may be the most important discussions on the future – the Hearings on the proposed new District...
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Your handy submission guide: LGWM City Streets proposals
- Talk Wellington
- LGWM has 4 surveys open for feedback on city streets changes they’ll make soon! This is good stuff that should’ve been done years ago, so take a couple of mins to whack in your feedback by midnight TUESDAY 23! The City Streets programme is the fastest-moving part of LGWM with good basic street changes for...
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Do we really need to heritage list any more of central Wellington?
- Talk Wellington
- Heritage NZ are currently consulting on Category 1-listing the Hannah Playhouse. Some bigwigs support it but guest poster Peter encourages us to oppose it in the consultation – open til 3 March Much criticism of heritage listing modern buildings, particularly those of this architectural style, Brutalism, is rooted in architectural snobbery. This post is not about...
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Hannah Playhouse, 12, Cambridge Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Building on top of a sewer tank
- Eye of the Fish
- This post was going to be called “New School of Music” but then I thought – no, hold on, this could really cause a stink. What if…? Is it? Was it? No, surely not. But maybe….? Who knows? I’ve just been alerted to the revised scheme for what was at one stage known as the new “School of Music” down by the Michael Fowler Centre – or more accurately, on the site of the MFC carpark and smack bang in the viewpoint of the Amora Hotel. Amazingly, it is a full public notification, and must be costing someone millions to do this – and it closes in just a very few days. Monday?
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Royal New Zealand Ballet, 115, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Four District Plans and a Funeral
- Eye of the Fish
- Today (Monday) is the last day for submissions on the proposed District Plan that will govern the shape of the city for the next 50...
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Golden Mile feedback window closing soon! Your guide for feedback…
- Talk Wellington
- The plans for Golden Mile are coming into focus! There’s still time to provide your ideas and feedback on their details. Hop on LGWM’s interactive map or flick them an email by August 14th to have your say! Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) has been moving slowly forward on a better Golden Mile for some...
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Submission guide: biking between Botanics and the big blue briney
- Talk Wellington
- Safe cycling and scooting between the Botanic Gardens and the harbour needs needs your support to become real – because of course “just being a no-brainer essential thing” isn’t enough. Biking and scooting safely between the Botanic Gardens and the harbour is something that’s vital for the city, a route identified by exhaustive analysis and an...
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Wellington Botanic Garden, Salmont Place, Paekaka, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Feedback time again
- Eye of the Fish
- Slowly but surely, at a majestic but glacial pace, Let’s Get Wellington Moving are moving forwards. Well, moving, at least. Maybe it is forwards. Maybe it is sideways. But at least it is not backwards. They’ve released some proposals, and want your / our feedback. And that means it is time for a closer look.
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Council votes today
- Eye of the Fish
- Today is the day that the elected Councillors will vote on the Proposed District Plan, which will shape our city for the next thousand years...
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Help us to improve our website content!
- Wellington City Libraries
- We’re doing some work to improve our library website, and want to hear from our users – what do you love, hate or want to see? What do you mostly use our site for? To find out, we’ve put together a short survey, which should take no more than 5 minutes of your time. We’d… Continue reading Help us to improve our website content! →
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Transitional? Transformational!
- Talk Wellington
- With the “transitional cycleways”, Wellington’s using a better method to make roads safely bikeable. And when you’ve got a joined-up bikeable network, something amazing happens In case you’ve forgotten (it’s been a busy few weeks), the Transitional Cycleways are key routes… whose streets and roads were selected and confirmed with last year’s consultation based on...
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Density in Island Bay
- Eye of the Fish
- Having taken the chance to venture south of the city, to deepest darkest Island Bay, home of the Empire, the old Terminus, the Parade, and...
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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A bikeable Wellington: finally the wheels are turning, give it a shove
- Talk Wellington
- After becoming a byword for cycleway SNAFUs, Wellington has been quietly getting its act together. Now a big step forward: a network, principles and who it’s for. Submit to help get the wheels turning – by 14th Dec! We promise, no more bike-related puns! Submissions are due soon – Tuesday 14th December (just before the...
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42m is TOO Tall
- Eye of the Fish
- While there is a need for good commentary on the Draft District Plan, expecting us ordinary citizens to go about our everyday jobs and still have the coherence to comment authoritatively on several hundred pages of new District Plan is asking a little too much of this particular Fish and their day job. So unless I get particularly creative and energetic over the next weekend, I think that on the whole the DP is going to go uncommented on. With the exception of just one area: Height.
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Wellington District Plan: submission guide!
- Talk Wellington
- We need more homes, good ones, close to where we want to be, and quickly please. The District Plan is not a silver bullet but it’s a big limiter! Let’s get it rightererer It’s all a bit complex and confusing, what’s the value of submitting on this? Good question. Here’s our take. As a general...
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Four upcoming submittals
- Eye of the Fish
- We are being asked to submit comments on four completely separate but highly important matters at the same time. If you thought that the run up to Christmas was getting tight for time this year, then get ready for it to be even more tight in terms of your time. Firstly, one you may not have been aware of: the proposal by KiwiRail and InterIslander to build new terminus stations in both Picton and Wellington, in order to tie in with the arrival of two new ferries due here in three years time. You can find out more about this proposal here. I’m not sure when they want the feedback by, but I’m sure that they want some feedback!
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Kaiwharawhara Point, Kaiwharawhara, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Medium Density Residential Zone
- Eye of the Fish
- The Draft District Plan is up online and is calling for submissions. Consultation closes on 14 December. Many people will not have viewed it online,...
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Adelaide Hotel
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s seldom that projects get publicly notified these days – the developers usually have it their own way with everything being done behind closed doors. You have to do something seriously different to raise the ire of the Planning Department enough that they feel they have no option but to make it known to the public. The Adelaide Hotel is one such scheme.
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Adelaide Hotel (former), Drummond Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cobham Drive
- Eye of the Fish
- You may already be aware of this world-breaking event, but in case you are not, here’s the news: LGWM have actually made a decision! Of course, now having made a decision, they now want to ask us our opinion on their momentous decision. So, this post, the topic of discussion is all about the proposed Cobham Drive crossing. Seeing as their method of discussion is all behind closed doors (they are calling for submissions by the end of July), I though that it might be more useful to have some discussion in public, and the Eye of the Fish seems to be a good place to discuss that.
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Cobham Drive, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Appropriate height limits
- Eye of the Fish
- While it was vaguely entertaining / terrifying / gratifying / intimidating to listen to some of the 10-hour debate on the Spatial Plan the other day (pick your own adjective according to your political persuasions), what became very clear is that NO ONE – not the Mayor, not the Council Officers, Not Liam Hodgetts the City Planner, and certainly not the rabid band of Councillors – have any idea about height limits that is bounded by any semblance of the actual factual truthiness of the situation.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Growth for Growth’s Sake
- Eye of the Fish
- “Art for Art’s sake – Money for God’s sake”. Or as we have it now, Growth for Growth’s sake. We now have a Council that has passed the Spatial Plan, in a decision that some have described being a battle over young vs old. Up to 80,000 more people will be able to live in our city, in a gradual process over the next 30+ years.
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How High is Too High?
- Eye of the Fish
- This Thursday is a big day for Wellington – the Council will vote on the Draft Spatial Plan and will decide whether or not to accept its recommendations.
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Less death please and thank you: Thorndon Quay/Hutt Road submissions in quick!
- Talk Wellington
- Let’s Get Wellington Moving, our old frenemy. It’s popped out of the woodwork to ask for your thoughts on Thorndon Quay and Hutt Road. If you want to catch up on the Let’s Get Wellington Moving saga start here. Otherwise scroll right on ahead and get to submitting! Submissions close June 8th, 5pm.
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Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Future of Hutt Transport: Survey Time!
- Talk Wellington
- If you live in the Hutt, make sure you have your say by completing this actually quite fun survey to help inform future transport decisions.
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WCC Long Term Plan: Your Submission Guide
- Talk Wellington
- “Don’t tell me what you value; show me your budget and I”ll tell you what you value”.
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“It’s really good but where’s the consultation?!” tactical urbanism, social licence and blowing minds
- Talk Wellington
- A bunch of towns are discovering tactical urbanism right now through the Innovating Streets programme, and a Low Traffic Neighbourhood project in Onehunga is a theatre for some very familiar angst – and some very unfamiliar progress.
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