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Help us BEAT THE BISH!
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- LIVE WELLington has launched a game and a fundraising appeal - we want New Zealanders around the country to send a message to the Minister for RMA Reform, that he can't shut down local voices. Help us BEAT THE BISH!
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Doing density well
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- In this third installment of a series on Copenhagen, Jane O’Loughlin looks at how the Danes approach urban design.
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On your bike
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- In this second installment of a series on Copenhagen, Jane O’Loughlin checks out the city’s famous cycling culture.
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Show us the money and the plan
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- LIVE WELLington is issuing a challenge to Victoria University: “Get the funding and the plan in place before you demolish the Gordon Wilson Flats.”
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Copenhagen - the city urban designers dream about
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- What can Wellington learn from the world’s most liveable city? In a series of articles LIVE WELLington convenor Jane O’Loughlin reflects on her experience of urban planning and design in Copenhagen, and considers what New Zealand could learn.
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The market is not the silver bullet for housing affordability
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- LIVE WELLington congratulates MP Tamatha Paul for pushing the Government on housing solutions that aren’t just market led.
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Outcome of judicial review
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- A judicial review taken by LIVE WELLington against decisions made regarding character areas in Wellington has been dismissed by Justice Churchman in the High Court.
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Consents low in the wake of new District Plan
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- New analysis shows that Wellington has seen the lowest number of new houses being consented on record, in the period since the new District Plan passed.
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New apartment development demonstrates District Plan flaws
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- The proposal for a new apartment block in Mt Victoria, the first major housing development enabled by the new District Plan, demonstrates that the wealthy will be the only winners from changes that were supposed to bring about affordable housing.
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Wellington District Plan: The Wellington City Council’s decision must be reviewed.
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- LIVE WELLington has announced it will shortly lodge judicial review proceedings in the High Court. These ask the Court to review the District Plan decision on character areas made by the Wellington City Council and the Minister for RMA Reform. LIVE WELLington is an advocacy group for density done well. The group (comprising more than 150 members) has been involved in the District Plan process from the beginning. LIVE WELLington believes that with smart urban design, Wellington’s iconic character areas can be retained at the same time as new, denser housing is introduced to the inner city and central city areas.
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Will evidence and reason prevail?
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- OPINION PIECE by Jane O'Loughlin, convenor of LIVE WELLington. Very soon Chris Bishop, the Minister for RMA Reform, will announce his decision on the Wellington District Plan.
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Wellington City Council spends $1.7 million on experts then rejects their findings
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- MEDIA RELEASE 22 April 2024 The Wellington City Council spent over $1.7 million on a set of experts to hear submissions on the District Plan, and then went on to ignore their key findings.
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Wellington’s District Plan debate: It’s got that 80s vibe and not in a good way
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- BLOG POST It may not be dressed in fluoro lycra, but sometimes the furore over Wellington’s District Plan feels like the 80s all over again, say LIVE WELLington convenor Jane O'Loughlin.
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Living with Earthquake Risk - have we got it right?
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- 27 February 2024 The ongoing frustration of trying to meet earthquake building standards was evident at a meeting we hosted on 22 February 2024 at St Peter’s Church on Willis. Here's our report of the meeting.
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New Basin Reserve housing precinct warrants careful design
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- News that ‘a housing and urban growth precinct’ will be part of the new developments around Wellington’s Basin Reserve has been welcomed by LIVE WELLington.
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The rise and fall of the housing market
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- BLOG BY PHIL KELLIHER. Just two years ago the housing market was in a frenzy, with properties going for silly money. But now it’s the opposite. For property manager Phil Kelliher, this was vividly illustrated when he noticed a large property in Mt Victoria listed for nearly one million dollars less than its RV.
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Kāinga Ora spends $800,000 to influence Wellington District Plan
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- Kāinga Ora has spent $800,000 hiring a vast team of lawyers, planners and architects to influence the outcome of the Wellington District Plan, drowning out local voices, says Wellington community and urban design advocacy group LIVE WELLington. “Citizens who know and love their city and neighborhood attempt to get involved in the District Plan process however we struggle to compete with highly paid lawyers and planners flown in from other cities to argue for inappropriate planning rules that are not conducive to a liveable city,” says LIVE WELLington convenor Jane O’Loughlin. The panel of Independent Commissioners at Wellington District Plan hearings (left) are well outnumbered by Kāinga Ora’s legal and planning team (right).
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Wellington’s new council – what does it mean for housing and planning?
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- With a new Wellington city council now in place, it’s time to examine the views of our new councillors on urban form, housing and a liveable city. During the election, the excellent website Policy.nz asked candidates around the country to submit their policies and priorities under a range of headings, including ‘housing and planning’. Using this, LIVE WELLington has extracted the policies of our new Wellington City councillors. This summary table is available here, and our analysis follows.
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10 reasons to support character
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- So much has changed since the Wellington City Council voted in June 2021 to strip demolition protection from more than two-thirds of the city's character areas. LIVE WELLington argues it's time for a re-think, and to strike a better balance. We provided this letter to Wellington councillors, in the lead up to the notification of the proposed District Plan on 23 June 2022.
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Wellingtonians support retention of more character areas
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- A survey of Wellingtonians has found that while there is support for increasing density in the inner city suburbs, it must be done with care, and there is considerable unease about the Wellington City Council’s plans to remove protections for pre-1930s houses in the inner city suburbs.
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Council report shows no need for radical planning changes in inner city Wellington
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- The latest official assessment of Wellington’s housing needs shows sufficient capacity in Wellington’s inner city suburbs to meet future growth for the next 30 years, meaning the drive by the council to decimate inner city character areas is unwarranted and must be abandoned now, says LIVE WELLington.
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Why letting the market loose will not deliver housing affordability
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- Will letting developers loose on our inner city suburbs deliver us from the evil of ever-escalating house prices? Phil Kelliher explains the issues in this blog for LIVE WELLington.
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Density done well discussion attracts numbers
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- An audience of around 90 people turned up to hear a panel discussion on urban design and density done well, at St Peter’s Church on 5 May 2022, organised by LIVE WELLington and Inner City Wellington.
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Championing Liveable Wellington
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- Wellington needs robust people-centric design and thoughtful planning to remain a liveable and attractive city, says LIVE WELLington, a new group set up to champion Wellington as a liveable city for all. Housing, climate change, earthquake resilience and ageing infrastructures are among the many challenges we face, says spokesperson Jane O'Loughlin. “This needs joined-up thinking to prepare for the future while protecting what we love about Wellington.”
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Pop goes the high rise?
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- Get ready to have your say on the first draft of the new Wellington District Plan by December 14th. The District Plan is the rule book for land use and determines what needs a resource consent so it's vital we all speak up for a liveable Wellington for all.
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Daylight Robbery?
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- Submissions have closed on the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill as of midnight on Tuesday 16th. This blunt one-size-fits-all Bill allows three storey buildings on any residential site, without regard to the landscape or effects on sunlight or amenity. Everyone deserves a warm, dry, affordable home in a thriving community. This includes people in existing homes.
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