Issues / February 2010
March 2010 | December 2009-
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One step closer to a city-wide alcohol ban
- The Wellingtonista
- The council is going to draft a by-law to ban drinking in public places.
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The council encourages whisky-drinking while it says it wants to ban liquor
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council seems to be in denial. Having created the happy, over-the-top mayhem that is Courtenay Place every weekend, it’s now trying to calm things down with a ban on liquor in any public place. It already has a liquor ban in the central city, as is evidenced by its over-sized signs on lampposts. But now it wants to extend the ban into the suburbs as well.
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City Housing Policy Changes
- Downtown Community Ministry
- Wellingtonians should comment our Council for staying firmly in the business of social housing provision. Their draft policy for the city’s social housing service describes a vision of affordable and safe accommodation for Wellingtonians in need. It also provides details on the Housing Upgrade Project (HUP) with Housing New Zealand.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Why we can’t be smug about the leaky buildings on Auckland’s waterfront
- Wellington Scoop
- I felt unreasonably smug at the weekend when I learnt that the Hilton Hotel on Princes Wharf in Auckland has had to close some of its best rooms because there are leaks in the walls. Would this have also been the fate of a Hilton Hotel in Wellington, had it been allowed to build on the outer-Tee of Queens Wharf?
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Few Rights for Boarding House Tenants
- Downtown Community Ministry
- Some boarding houses in Wellington appear to be cashing in on big events in the city by evicting their residents at short notice to make room for out-of-town visitors. Downtown Community Ministry is aware of three instances where tenants have been given less than a day to vacate because their room was to be let to someone else.
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