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Elections again!
- Sarah Free
- It’s been a difficult three years for Council, Wellington- and indeed the entire country and beyond. Following the 2016 earthquake, it became increasingly obvious that Wellington’s pipes-already decades old- were starting to leak and break with increasing frequency. To add to that, the Kaikoura earthquake had thrown up new engineering issues with relatively new buildings […]
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Free Walking Solution- Hataitai to CBD
- Sarah Free
- Would more people walk to work or school from the Eastern suburbs if they didn’t have to use the dark, crowded, loud and smelly Mt Victoria tunnel? Here’s the idea: can WCC and GWRC work together to give walkers a free trip from one side of the Hataitai bus tunnel to the other? Once the bus system is up and running with a bit of spare capacity, think what a boon that could be for walkers.
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Election Flyer 2019
- Sarah Free
- Other Policies: Shelly Bay- Shelly Bay needs a rethink. I believe the scale and intensity of the proposed development is too great for the site, especially given the revised (upwards) estimates of traffic movements.
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What about walking?
- Sarah Free
- Walking is the most fundamental and universal means of transport, but can get the least attention.
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Q and A for the Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay Residents Association
- Sarah Free
- SARAH FREE STANDING FOR WCC EASTERN WARD POLICIES: Rates: Ideally we would keep rates at not much more than the rate of inflation, but this is often not possible, partly because the costs of things Council provides (roads, water infrastructure etc) have risen faster than the average rate of inflation, and partly because residents and businesses often want more for their city.
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Caring for our beaches
- Sarah Free
- Today I joined some of local community in their regular monthly beach cleanup of Lyall Bay beach (it’s always the first Sunday of the month, meet at the Lyall Bay Beach playground play ground at 10.
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My Answers to Lets Get Welly Moving
- Sarah Free
- Will we ever get Wellington moving? And what does that mean? The Kilbirnie Lyall Bay Residents association recently asked Eastern Ward councilors to give their views on the following questions (These are also published on their Facebook page).
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Where did the last three years go?
- Sarah Free
- Hello to you all, Tena kotou katoa! Its been a huge privilege to have been your Eastern Ward Councillor for the last three years and I’ve very much enjoyed working with local communities, staff and colleagues to get many good things done.
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Where did the last three years go?
- Sarah Free
- Hello to you all, Tena kotou katoa! Its been a huge privilege to have been your Eastern Ward Councillor for the last three years.
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Campaign Speech- Hataitai Candidates Meeting
- Sarah Free
- The candidates meetings have all been interesting, with good questions asked from the floor.
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Campaign Speech- Hataitai Candidates Meeting
- Sarah Free
- The candidates meetings have all been interesting, with good questions asked from the floor.
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A bit more about me
- Sarah Free
- An interested resident recently asked about my engineering background.
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A bit more about me
- Sarah Free
- An interested resident recently asked about my engineering background.
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The runway extension- at what cost?
- Sarah Free
- Submissions are now open until 12 August 2016, for you to have your say on the runway extension resource consent, which is to go to the Environment Court.
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The runway extension- at what cost?
- Sarah Free
- Submissions are now open until 12 August 2016, for you to have your say on the runway extension resource consent, which is to go to the Environment Court.
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We will need to protect our coasts from sea level rise, but how?
- Sarah Free
- A recent Wellington city Council news release highlights the amount of money spent on sea walls around our coasts.
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We will need to protect our coasts from sea level rise, but how?
- Sarah Free
- A recent Wellington City Council news release highlights that in the last three years around $4 million has been spent on sea walls at Shelly, Princess, Karaka, Island and Breaker Bays, plus there have been numerous smaller sea wall and road repairs around the southern and eastern coasts.
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New Johnsonville Library- Preliminary Designs Open for Comment
- Sarah Free
- Planning for the Johnsonville Library and Community Hub has reached the next stage, with preliminary designs now up on the website.
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New Johnsonville Library- Preliminary Designs Open for Comment
- Sarah Free
- Planning for the Johnsonville Library and Community Hub has reached the next stage, with preliminary designs now up on the website.
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Artist brightens Lyall Bay
- Sarah Free
- Going to an appointment today in Lyall Bay I went past local artist Gene Van der Zanden, working away on his mural on the retaining wall at Lyall Bay school.
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Artist brightens Lyall Bay
- Sarah Free
- Going to an appointment today in Lyall Bay I went past local artist Gene Van der Zanden, working away on his mural on the retaining wall at Lyall Bay school.
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Getting Together
- Sarah Free
- It’s not often I write specifically about my portfolio area of Community Facilities, but I am starting to feel a sense of pride in all that has been achieved this triennium.
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Getting Together
- Sarah Free
- It’s not often I write specifically about my portfolio area of Community Facilities, but I am starting to feel a sense of pride in all that has been achieved this triennium.
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Fruit tree photos
- Sarah Free
- The last post was getting too long, so I’ve put photos here. These were all taken today. The hot dry summer has been great for everything except the feijoas, which are looking smaller and sparser than usual.
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Fruit tree photos
- Sarah Free
- The last post was getting too long, so I’ve put photos here. These were all taken today. The hot dry summer has been great for everything except the feijoas, which are looking smaller and sparser than usual.
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Edible Garden Tour
- Sarah Free
- Over the last few years, Wellingtonians have embraced community gardens and orchards, and have planted edibles in their own gardens.
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