Government / June 2023
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Changes to council fees and charges
- Porirua City Council
- Fees have been adjusted to spread costs fairly between users and all ratepayers.
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Annual Plan adopted
- Upper Hutt City Council
- The 2023 – 2024 year will see significant progress and/or completion of a number of Long Term Plan projects, including the Maidstone Community Sports Hub, H2O Xtream upgrade, Stage 1 of the Civic Centre upgrade, and the watermain renewal on Main Street.
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Striking the right balance: Hutt City Council adopts Annual Plan for the year ahead
- Hutt City Council
- Today Hutt City Council adopted the Annual Plan for 2023-24, which comes into effect from 1 July 2023.
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Car-ting around your tamariki?
- Hutt City Council
- Did you know, Hutt City Council began offering free, potentially life-saving car seat clinics to the community in 2021?
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Friday Five: Ways to play this winter
- Wellington City Council
- The fun never stops in our vibrant city. Winter is a great time to explore the outdoors. Here are some of our favourite ways to play in Wellington this winter.
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Annual Plan and rates confirmed
- Wellington City Council
- Councillors have adopted the Wellington City Council 2023/24 Annual Plan, confirming the 12.3 percent rates rise previously signalled. The increase equates to an average of about $8 per household per week and will apply from 1 July.
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Khandallah Pool report complete
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council commissioned a technical report to better understand the existing site conditions at Khandallah Pool and park area. The report covered flood modelling, a geotechnical report, infrastructure review and a site analysis.
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Khandallah Summer Pool, Khandallah Park, Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Know your options when someone’s parked in the wrong place
- Hutt City Council
- Sometimes people park in the wrong place for good reasons, but if it’s illegal, or someone is parking repeatedly where they shouldn’t, there is something you can do about it.
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Council wrap - 29 June
- Porirua City Council
- A wrap of what happened at today's Council meeting.
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Hundreds of students get planting in Porirua
- Porirua City Council
- Schools from Porirua and Wellington have been getting involved.
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Waste Auditor with the gift of the gab
- Wellington City Council
- The cat’s out of the bag – and its body was shoved into a bin. That’s one of the worst things Merv has found in a Council recycling bin in his time as a Wellington City Council Waste Auditor.
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Wellington's greenhouse gas emissions report available
- Upper Hutt City Council
- Greenhouse gas emissions in the Wellington region fell by 9% since 2019, a newly released report commissioned by eight of the regions’ councils including Greater Wellington shows.
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Spicer Landfill fees rise due to Government levy
- Porirua City Council
- Landfill fees and rubbish bags are going up, after an increased Government levy
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Spicers Landfill, Tawa, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Upper Hutt unites with Mesa to revive Mesa Youth Ambassadors
- Upper Hutt City Council
- Upper Hutt and Mesa, Arizona proudly announce the successful completion of the Mesa Youth Ambassadors Exchange Programme yesterday. The exchange programme was last offered in 2019 between the two cities.
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Green light to map what’s beneath Wellington’s streets
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council has approved a New Zealand-leading initiative to build an updateable digital map, recording where all of the underground pipes and cables are beneath the city’s roads and footpaths.
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Upper Hutt Mayor announces upcoming Matariki Puanga Festival event
- Upper Hutt City Council
- Upper Hutt Mayor announces upcoming Matariki Puanga Festival event
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Public notice around privacy breach
- Wellington City Council
- On 20 June 2023, Wellington City Council became aware of a privacy breach.
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Help fine tune climate-friendly street changes for Brooklyn
- Wellington City Council
- A safer bike connection up Brooklyn Road to the shops and lots of safer new crossings for people on foot are among the latest climate-friendly street changes open for feedback from today.
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Brooklyn Road, Fitchettown, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Nairnville Park play area renewal set to swing into action
- Wellington City Council
- Renewal and upgrade work on the Nairnville Park play area in Khandallah is scheduled to start Monday 3 July – if the weather plays nice!
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Nairnville Park, Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Waste concrete gets new life under harbourside paths
- Wellington City Council
- The new bike and walking paths going in around Evans Bay are providing the means to get about in climate-friendly ways – and also helping reduce waste by making use of recycled materials.
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Interested in Pōneke Promise progress? - this Review Report might help
- INNER-CITY WELLINGTON
- Pōneke Promise Review A varied programme of work is currently underway under the vision of the Pōneke Promise, to make central Wellington safe, vibrant, and welcoming After two years of Pōneke Promise programmes, the WCC proposed a qualitative review amongst partners and stakeholders to understand experiences and learnings to date, and to highlight areas of interest and focus moving forward.
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Golden Mile transformation will bring more life into the city says Greater Wellington
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington says Golden Mile rejuvenation plans from Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) will make Wellington City and public transport more attractive and bring more life into the CBD. The plans are ambitious, clear, and unapologetic about bringing as many people as possible into the city says Chair of Greater Wellington Daran Ponter. “The benefits of the rejuvenation plan are plenty and undeniable. Distinct precincts that make it easy for everyone to get around, more reliable and uninterrupted journeys for public transport passengers with modern accessible infrastructure designed to keep people more safe, more sheltered and more informed,” says Cr Ponter.
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Let’s Get Wellington Moving: please, councillors, keep your eyes on the prize
- Talk Wellington
- A bunch of WCC councillors are poised to throw not just the proverbial baby, but our whole reproductive system out with the bathwater. Sounds stupid? It is. Yet here we are, so please help keep their eyes on the prize! What’s happening on Thursday? Wellington city councillors have to vote whether to support or oppose...
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List of the 25 buildings being checked by City Council following fatal fire
- Wellington City Council
- In the immediate aftermath of the 16 May Loafers Lodge fire, Mayor Tory Whanau asked Wellington City Council’s Building Consents and Compliance (BCC) team to urgently identify any similar buildings providing residential accommodation across Wellington City.
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The team behind the Council's welfare response
- Wellington City Council
- When the phone rang at 1am about the fire at Loafers Lodge, the Connected Communities team at Wellington City Council kicked into gear to start helping those who had been affected with a welfare response.
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Friday Five: Explore Island Bay
- Wellington City Council
- Loved by locals, this beach-side suburb has it all – a gorgeous sandy beach looking out at Taputeranga Island, a popular park overlooking the water, a range of tasty eateries and much more. We’ve put together five things you can do to explore the area.
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Newtown's refreshed Community and Cultural Centre
- Wellington City Council
- The upgraded Newtown Community and Cultural Centre encompasses all the personality of Newtown – quintessentially quirky, retro, and full of life.
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Newtown Community & Cultural Centre, Colombo Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Prime Minister visits new Naenae Pool construction site
- Hutt City Council
- The Prime Minister and MP for Remutaka Rt Hon Chris Hipkins visited the site of the new Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre in Lower Hutt this afternoon, where construction is progressing well and towering 16m concrete panels and 37m manufactured timber beams are now in place.
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Naenae Olympic Pool (closed), Everest Avenue, Naenae, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Think twice before throwing food in the bin
- Wellington City Council
- Food waste accounts for a staggering 409,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in New Zealand annually. The average Wellingtonian throws out 3.2kg of food per week, which adds up to 30,000 tonnes of food scraps going to landfill each year, the same weight as 62 jumbo jets!
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Colin Feral’s criminal past: EXPOSED
- Wellington City Council
- He’s the cutest security champion at the Council and the floofiest ginger – but will his dark past as a serial trespasser be his downfall? Or will his reformed ways prove an inspiration to many?
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Porirua City Mayor Anita Baker supports change for Local Government
- Porirua City Council
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Welcoming the community back to the heart of Wainuiomata
- Hutt City Council
- On a brisk Tuesday morning the long-awaited redevelopment of Wainuiomata’s civic heart was officially handed back to community with a karakia led by Te Ati Awa.
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Hutt City Council welcomes direction signalled by FFLG Panel’s Report
- Hutt City Council
- Lower Hutt Mayor, Campbell Barry, says local government needs to change. He is looking forward to working with councils around the country, and central government, to consider the recommendations in the final report from the Panel of the Review into the Future for Local Government.
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Maidstone Community Sports Hub tracking well
- Upper Hutt City Council
- The new shared clubrooms and indoor training facility over at Maidstone Park are coming together nicely.
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2022-2023 Sustainability Stimulus Grant recipients announced
- Upper Hutt City Council
- 2022-2023 Sustainability Stimulus Grant recipients announced
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Whakamaru: Wellington City Mission’s new community hub
- Wellington City Council
- The Wellington City Mission is embarking on one of its biggest initiatives since the organisation began almost 120 years ago. After discovering a near-derelict building in Mount Cook four years ago, City Missioner Murray Edridge had the vision for Whakamaru – a new 24/7 residential and community services hub.
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From your Mayor - 20 June 2023
- Porirua City Council
- The latest from Porirua Mayor Anita Baker.
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Porirua to light up for Matariki
- Porirua City Council
- Come and join in on the celebrations.
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H2O Xtream project update
- Upper Hutt City Council
- Everything is going swimmingly for our H2O upgrade. Concrete is now being poured to separate the main pools, including the junior leisure pool.
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Te Wai Takamori o Te Awa Kairangi: New name for next stages of RiverLink project
- Hutt City Council
- Mana Whenua have gifted the name Te Wai Takamori o Te Awa Kairangi – The Soothing Waters of Te Awa Kairangi to the Alliance that will deliver the project previously referred to as RiverLink.
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Wellington City Draft Speed Management Plan withdrawn from public engagement
- Wellington City Council
- Public engagement on Wellington City Council’s Draft Speed Management Plan has been halted after a significant error found in consultation papers.
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Get to know Vondy Thornton, Empowering Communities Manager
- Wellington City Council
- From setting up a Council Rainbow Advisory Group to championing a pool event for transgender and non-binary folks to safely swim – community work has always been Vondy Thornton’s bread and butter.
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Community Survey 2023
- Upper Hutt City Council
- Once a year we survey a group of residents to seek feedback. This feedback will help us understand resident satisfaction and will help with our decision making so we can prioritise resources and effort to the areas that will deliver the best outcomes for our city.
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Spike in landfill complaints attributed to faulty gas well cap
- Porirua City Council
- The smell mainly affected Tawa residents.
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Get to the know the team: Mark Wilson
- Hutt City Council
- Mark Wilson has been with Apollo Projects for six years and as Project Manager, Mark has the important role of overseeing everything, from organising sub-contractors through to reporting to Council.
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Greater Wellington to consider extending half price fares
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington will consider extending half price fares while it works towards implementing age-based public transport discounts announced on 18 May in Budget 2023. The discounts, which let children under-13 ride for free, and under 25-year-olds at half price, can be introduced by Public Transport Authorities, when possible, from 1 July.
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Consultation on Easter Sunday Trading and Local Approved Products
- Upper Hutt City Council
- We’ve recently reviewed two of our policies and are keen to seek your feedback on what we’re proposing.
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Porirua’s litter problem
- Porirua City Council
- Let's put our waste in the right place.
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Libraries doing just fine without fines
- Wellington City Council
- A year on from removing overdue fines, Wellington City Libraries (WCL) has seen some significant changes around customer behaviour and their working environment.
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Sully's: Wellington's sustainably sourced fashion boutique
- Wellington City Council
- Tucked away on Ghuznee Street is a small but mighty boutique that aims to tackle climate action through sustainable fashion.
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Community encouraged to take part in Battle Hill planting day
- Porirua City Council
- Many hands make light work.
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Courtenay precinct getting some TLC
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council is working with local businesses and community groups on a big co-ordinated clean up day for Courtenay Place.
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Arbor Day 2023
- Upper Hutt City Council
- We once again had the pleasure of planting native trees for Arbor Day in conjunction with Forest and Bird – Upper Hutt and Fergusson Intermediate School.
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Tākina off to a great start just one week on
- Wellington City Council
- Just over a week after opening, visitor numbers to Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre and the Jurassic World by Brickman exhibition are already exceeding expectations.
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Exhibition looks at building a better future
- Wellington City Council
- A new exhibition looks at future public spaces and housing developments in Wellington through the eyes of landscape architecture students.
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The snow-down on Snow Leopards at Wellington Zoo
- Wellington City Council
- Snow Leopards, Asha and Manju, are the coolest cats in town. These lovely kitties were born in 2020, and recently made the move from Melbourne Zoo to Wellington. With people flocking to see them in their new purpose-built home, Wellington Zoo has shared 10 fun facts about Snow Leopards.
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Special Matariki Our Wellington magazine out this week
- Wellington City Council
- Everything you need to know about life in the capital this winter is in our special Matariki Our Wellington - Tō Tātou Pōneke, which is being delivered to letterboxes this week.
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Whiria te tāngata - Wellington City Council Chief Executive wins top award
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council Chief Executive Barbara McKerrow has won the Distinguished Management Award at the Taituarā Local Government Excellence Awards event held in the capital city on Thursday 8 June.
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10 fun facts about the Brickman LEGO® exhibition at Tākina
- Wellington City Council
- The largest LEGO® exhibition in New Zealand is currently on at Tākina, with over 6 million pieces of LEGO® bricks being used. Check out some fun facts about the Jurassic World by Brickman® exhibition from the mastermind, Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught.
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Festival looks to future
- Wellington Scoop
- Judging by the two bikes outside (one mine), the Festival of the Future wasn’t for cyclists. Food was also scarce at the outset of the two-day first event at Takina, Wellington’s stylish new convention centre. But that was remedied on day two and there’s a lovely cafe on the ground floor of the impressive building.
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Annual Plan balances affordability with vital harbour protection
- Porirua City Council
- Porirua City has set its budget and rates for the year ahead.
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Mana whenua trusts and Council relationship formalised
- Upper Hutt City Council
- A memorandum of partnership (MOP) was signed on Wednesday 31 May by representative members of Hikoikoi Management Limited, Wellington Tenths Trust, and Palmerston North Māori Reserve Trust; and Upper Hutt City Council’s Mayor and Chief Executive.
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Council puts renters first with new Housing Action Plan
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council today approved its Housing Action Plan 2023-2025 with the Mayor and City Councillors approving several new actions to support better housing outcomes in the city.
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Hutt City Council charging ahead with more EV infrastructure for communities
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council and Meridian Energy have collaborated to install 38 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai / Lower Hutt, ensuring that most residents now live within 3-4km of an EV charging station.
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Council-Māori housing partnership in Lower Hutt wins national award
- Hutt City Council
- Takai Here Tāngata, an innovative partnership to provide quality housing in Taitā for whānau in high housing stress has tonight won Hutt City Council a national award for “Collaborative Government Action”.
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Friday Five: Ways to protect native birds in your backyard
- Wellington City Council
- In Pōneke, we’re lucky to see manu/birds of all shapes and sizes visiting our backyards. From the loud kākā to the iridescent kererū, it can be super exciting to see these birds but we need to be conscious of how we interact with them. Here are five tips from Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne to take care of birds in your garden.
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Traffic disruption on Victoria Street as tower crane is installed at Te Matapihi
- Wellington City Council
- As part of the Te Matapihi Central Library strengthening and refurbishment project, L.T. McGuinness is preparing to install a tower crane onto the Victoria Street site from Monday 12 - 15 June (weather permitting).
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Explore Pōneke by e-bike
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council introduced an inaugural e-bike tour earlier this year – it was such a success a series of bookable tours will be a regular fixture on the calendar.
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Marine exclusion zone established in Shelly Bay for harbour safety
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
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Airport exhibition takes off at Kilbirnie
- Wellington City Council
- With the launch of the newly digitised Ronald Cameron Airport Collection, we take a look back at a version of Rongotai that no longer exists.
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Resignation of Chief Executive
- Upper Hutt City Council
- Upper Hutt Mayor, Wayne Guppy, has accepted the resignation of Chief Executive, Peter Kelly ONZM (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Koata).
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Hutt City Council annual plan about striking the right balance
- Hutt City Council
- Mayor Campbell Barry says Hutt City Council’s Annual Plan 2023-24 is all about striking the right balance. Council met today to agree on the final decisions on the Annual Plan, which will be adopted on 30 June. It focuses on balancing getting things done affordably and the current cost pressures.
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Something for everyone at Love Local
- Porirua City Council
- Come and support local this weekend.
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Aotea Lagoon project nears finish line
- Porirua City Council
- The former duck pond is transforming from its former state.
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Aotea Lagoon, Papakōwhai, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Road closures for critical works
- Porirua City Council
- Lower Champion St will be closed for the second half of 2023.
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Don’t fetch the paper - dog registrations are going digital
- Wellington City Council
- With an average of 200 new dog registrations being processed a month, Wellington City Council is making registering your dog easier, faster and more efficient by going paperless for the 2023/24 registration period.
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Community-led project culminates in colourful mural
- Wellington City Council
- A three-year, community-led project has culminated in a stunning mural that stretches around the surface of a water tank in Karori – effectively making the old concrete structure disappear into its surrounding natural environment.
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Montgomery Avenue, Karori West, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Miramar Minor Safety Works
- Kōrero Mai | Let's Talk | Wellington City Council
- We are proposing line marking changes at the intersection of Townsend-Otaki and Athens Street.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Metlink bike rack practice point encourages cycle savviness
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A bus bike rack installed by Greater Wellington allows Wellingtonians to practice attaching their bikes to Metlink buses - without worrying about stopping traffic. The rack is affixed to a near-life-sized image of a Metlink bus on the Bike Space workshop, a city-council sponsored bike repair shop on Cable Street next to Waitangi Park.
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Waitangi Park, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington wins global prize for bike network vision and roll-out
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington and its innovative bike network has gained global recognition, $650,000 in prize money, and a place on the prestigious Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI).
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College Sport Wellington withholding ground payments to HCC and WCC
- College Sport Wellington
- College Sport Wellington has announced today it will withhold payments on Hutt City Council and Wellington City Council ...
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King's Birthday Weekend operating hours
- Porirua City Council
- Some of our services and facilities will be closed on Monday.
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Friday Five: What to do in Wellington over King’s Birthday weekend
- Wellington City Council
- Wanting some inspiration on what to do in the capital over the King’s Birthday long weekend? Check out these five fun activities.
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Loafers Lodge remembrance service
- Wellington City Council
- A Service of Remembrance for those who lost their lives at Loafers Lodge, and those impacted by the tragedy, will be held at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, 2 Hill St, at 5.30 pm on Thursday 15 June.
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Event Fund 2023 Now Open
- Upper Hutt City Council
- The contestable event fund is open from 1 June - 30 June each year for all events run in Upper Hutt.
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Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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