https://wellington.gen.nz/khandallah+newtown Items tagged with Khandallah and Newtown. https://talkwellington.org.nz/2021/characterful-medium-density-housing/ Who else is having conversations where someone goes “ooh but it’s all leaky soulless apartments, we don’t want that”? Here’s a feast for your eyes and balm for your worried soul Welcome to Talk Wellington’s random collection of neat medium-density examples to cheer you up, to show your friends, to tell the council you want … and to inspire density skeptics (presuming they’re in good faith, not just being awful). (Images’ links are in the image, caption or the text – click for more.) Enjoy! Characterful, “old”… medium density Montréal has a LOT of medium density residential neighbourhoods. They’re super liveable and beloved, and they are home to numbers of people that would sort out many of Wellington’s classic woes. Here’s some pretty historic-y medium density which has actual awesome neighbourhood vitality and character by the bucketload, for everyone. Medium density can be… no more than two storeys, with lots of mixed use and features like shop-top housing! No offence, Mt Vic / Khandallah / Thorndon / Woburn, but your neighbourhoods can’t hold a candle to the Castro for real liveable character, not just visual character. So leafy! Apartments you rent short-term: this is the Garden Wing of Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel. It was built in the 1970s! Lush az. This is all open air How ’bout indigenous character! The stunning medium-density Utukoia replaces two detached homes on traditional quarter-acre sections with 14 new terrace homes (53 bedrooms total), communal facilities and a range of private, shared and public spaces. Phwoar. Check out the Auckland Māori Design Hub for more delicious stuff There are some smart folks stimulating Māori design and innovation at the Āpōpō accelerator right here in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, run by the Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa / IDIA team. How about some modern character? Check out the beautiful high density of the Urban Habitat Collective, coming soon right in Newtown: Or the beautiful CoHaus (read their amazing story here) Even ol’ Kiwibuild is finally doing lovely stuff in Onehunga: How about the spaces in between the housing? Density done well brings your laneways to life as a part of people’s backyards, as in Queensland… Go large We really need comprehensive, multi-block developments to sort out whole areas of our cities. You can do ’em on something that’s underused space like… a golf course? Or even as a regeneration of… ooh, maybe a large area of detached housing, hello Kāinga Ora. So check out this thread on Vancouver’s Regent Park development. Hello #densitydonewell: a big uplift in density is helping fund all sorts of fantastic public amenities for the residents of the varied and accessible apartments: green space, schools, lovely public realm, community gardens, people-friendly street grid… That fourfold increase in density has helped to pay for generous public realm and community facilities including parks, athletic grounds, and an amazing aquatic centre #torontotweets #densitydonewell #citiesforall pic.twitter.com/cCy2dYq6V5 — Stuart (@HoughtonSd) September 11, 2018 Be still, our beating hearts…. And finally… DensityNOTdonewell While we tend to agree with Bernard Hickey that the battle over densifying suburbs is the battle of our generation, there’s plenty of reasonable property-owning folks who are genuinely, good-faith worried. They’re worried that crappy, ugly things will be built – and are vulnerable to being scaremongered by wild claims about housing values (hat tip Property Investors Federation). And let’s be honest: NZ has strong historical form in doing medium density badly – especially badly in construction, which means bad financially for those who bought in them. The cars seem to have the best of this bargain… And bad design is far from history: there’s still plenty of crap designs out there, thanks to our unfamiliarity with good-quality medium density. Here’s one example of rubbish medium density that appears to deny its residents most of the benefits of density done well like access to green space and social connection. So let’s also be clear: nobody wants crap design or construction, and we absolutely don’t have to accept it “because housing crisis”. So let’s get more and more people on the bandwagon for good medium density, #densitydonewell! What other examples of great (or grotty) medium density do you know? How do they make you feel and why? khandallah newtown thorndon places blogs Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:09:02 GMT https://talkwellington.org.nz/2021/characterful-medium-density-housing/ Talk Wellington 2021-08-16T20:09:02Z -41.2745396 174.7756309 Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand http://www.whs.school.nz/newsnotices/metlink-bus-services-term-1-2020/ Morning services 713 – Miramar – Kilbirnie – Newtown – Basin Schools             7:45  Miramar-DarlingtonRd (124)             8:36  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 715 – Lyall Bay – Kilbirnie – Hataitai – Basin Schools             8:00  LyallBay-HungerfordRd (2)                8:28  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 725 – Houghton Bay – Southgate – Island Bay – Basin Schools             7:45  HgtnBayRd nr Cave                           8:31  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 726 – Island Bay – Owhiro Bay – Berhampore – Wellington High School             7:55  Esplanade opp Beach                        8:25  MasseyUni-WallaceSt (opp)    Daily             8:05  Island Bay-ReefSt at ShorlandPk        8:25  MasseyUni-WallaceSt (opp)    Daily 734 – Brooklyn – Kingston – Vogeltown – Basin Schools             7:50  OhiroRd at Bretby                             8:10  AdelaideRd at Basin (12)         Daily 736 – Karori (Wrights Hill) – Kelburn – Wellington College             7:40  KaroriMall-BeauchampSt                   8:13  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily             7:50  GippsSt at Cooper (sch)                     8:20  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 737 – Karori – Kelburn – Wellington College & Wellington High School             7:43  Karori-AllingtonRd                            8:29  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily             7:45  Karori-AllingtonRd                            8:29  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily             7:47  Karori-AllingtonRd                            8:33  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 743 – Wilton – Wadestown – Thorndon Colleges & Basin Schools             7:55  Wilton-SurreySt                                8:35  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily             8:00  Wilton-SurreySt                                8:40  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 746 – Khandallah – Ngaio – Basin Schools – St Patrick’s College             7:35  HuttRd at Rangiora                           8:25  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 764 – Karori – Wellington College             7:55  Karori-AllingtonRd                            8:43  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 768 – Mairangi – Wellington, St Patrick’s & Rongotai Colleges             7:50  Mairangi-NorwichSt                          8:22  BasinRes (sch)                        Daily 770 – Kowhai Park – Kingston – Vogeltown – Basin & Kilbirnie Colleges             7:50  KowhaiPk-MitchellSt                         8:15  AdelaideRd at Basin (12)         Daily Afternoon services 718 – Wellington High School – Newtown – Seatoun           15:30  TaranakiSt (217)                              16:00  SeatounPk-HectorSt               Daily 719 – Wellington High School – Kilbirnie – Miramar North           15:30  WgtnHighSch (sch)                          15:56  ParkRd at Rotherham (86)       Daily 726 – Wellington High School – Berhampore – Owhiro Bay – Island Bay           15:25  WgtnHighSch (sch)                          15:44  IslandBay-ReefSt opp ShorlandPk                           Daily           15:30  WgtnHighSch (sch)                          16:10  IslandBay-ReefSt opp ShorlandPk                           Daily 734 – Brooklyn – Kingston – Vogeltown – Basin Schools           15:36  AdelaideRd at Basin (13)                 15:50  Brooklyn-A                             Daily 740 – Wellington College – Kelburn – Karori           15:30  TaranakiSt at AbelSmith                  15:58  Karori-KaroriRd                       Daily           15:31  TaranakiSt at AbelSmith                  15:59  Karori-KaroriRd                       Daily           15:32  TaranakiSt at AbelSmith                  16:00  Karori-KaroriRd                       Daily 742 – Basin Schools – Miramar Heights           15:40  BasinRes (sch)                                 16:18  MiramarShops-A                    Daily 769 – St Patrick’s & Wellington Colleges, Wellington High School – Northland – Wilton           15:38  TaranakiSt at AbelSmith                  16:10  Wilton-SurreySt                      Daily 770 – Basin Schools – Vogeltown – Kingston – Kowhai Park           15:49  AdelaideRd at Basin (13)                 16:29  KowhaiPk-MitchellSt              Daily berhampore brooklyn hataitai islandbay karori kelburn khandallah kilbirnie lyallbay miramar newtown ngaio northland seatoun thorndon wadestown wilton vogeltown places secondary education Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:00:43 GMT http://www.whs.school.nz/newsnotices/metlink-bus-services-term-1-2020/ Wellington High School 2020-03-06T03:00:43Z -41.3002065 174.77512646827947 Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand https://wellingtontennisclub.org.nz/premier-interclub-grand-finals-16-march/ Wellington’s tennis season climax coming Saturday 16 March … head on down to the Renouf Centre to watch the big showdown in Tennis Central’s Premier Interclub Grand Finals: Men: Tawa Tommy’s vs Thorndon Women: Lower Hutt vs Khandallah Both finals are going to be a cracker! All the action starts at 4pm. tawa khandallah thorndon places newtown tennis sport Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:50:59 GMT https://wellingtontennisclub.org.nz/premier-interclub-grand-finals-16-march/ Wellington Tennis Club 2019-03-06T19:50:59Z -41.2745396 174.7756309 Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand http://www.wellingtontennisclub.org.nz/massive-sales-at-thump-sports-till-8-feb/ Thump Sports is having a massive sale at the Khandallah store with a lot more stock than is on their website. khandallah places newtown tennis sport Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wellingtontennisclub.org.nz/massive-sales-at-thump-sports-till-8-feb/ Wellington Tennis Club 2016-01-28T00:00:00Z -41.246742 174.7905885 Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand http://www.wellingtontennisclub.org.nz/thump-sports-annual-demo-and-sale-on-saturday/ Thump Sports holds its annual Tennis Demo Event and Sale at the Khandallah Tennis Club this Saturday 26 Sep, 10-3pm. khandallah places newtown tennis sport Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wellingtontennisclub.org.nz/thump-sports-annual-demo-and-sale-on-saturday/ Wellington Tennis Club 2015-09-24T00:00:00Z -41.246742 174.7905885 Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand http://jackyan.com/blog/2015/03/when-the-media-advocate-racism-to-hide-the-real-culprits-behind-bad-driving/ This op–ed in the Fairfax Press smacks of typical yellow peril journalism that has come to typify what passes for some media coverage of late. roseneath titahi-bay berhampore cubastreet wainuiomata civic-square wairarapa karori kelburn khandallah tawa stokes-valley paraparaumu makara brooklyn huttvalley worserbay kapiti hataitai ngaio lyallbay wadestown waterfront mountcook paremata wilton begonia-house mountvictoria newtown arovalley newlands kilbirnie seatoun northland thorndon islandbay miramar orientalbay johnsonville porirua eastbourne places election-candiates-2010 elections2010 local-body-elections blogs Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://jackyan.com/blog/2015/03/when-the-media-advocate-racism-to-hide-the-real-culprits-behind-bad-driving/ Jack Yan 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z -41.1040802 174.8377591 Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand http://www.clubrugby.co.nz/wellington/story.php?id=1265 Above: Brandyn Laursen (left) and Mike Clamp (right) who we think hold the respective Wellington club rugby single season points and try scoring records. worserbay newlands roseneath hataitai paraparaumu newtown cubastreet khandallah arovalley lyallbay stokes-valley mountvictoria tawa seatoun kapiti eastbourne paremata islandbay berhampore ngaio kelburn miramar johnsonville waterfront karori orientalbay titahi-bay wairarapa mountcook kilbirnie civic-square northland huttvalley brooklyn wadestown wainuiomata makara thorndon wilton porirua begonia-house places rugby sport Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://www.clubrugby.co.nz/wellington/story.php?id=1265 Wellington Club Weekly 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z -41.3157961 174.8299901 Worser Bay, Marine Parade, Seatoun, Wellington, 6022, New Zealand/Aotearoa http://www.gw.govt.nz/grab-some-gravel/ Take some hard fill for your home and garden projects this weekend - and help protect your community from flooding. kilbirnie roseneath stokes-valley arovalley wilton miramar tawa worserbay ngaio makara begonia-house waterfront islandbay thorndon huttvalley wainuiomata newlands mountvictoria kelburn seatoun paraparaumu johnsonville hataitai wairarapa lyallbay eastbourne paremata wadestown karori kapiti orientalbay mountcook civic-square porirua cubastreet brooklyn northland titahi-bay khandallah newtown berhampore places government regional-council Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://www.gw.govt.nz/grab-some-gravel/ Greater Wellington Regional Council 2015-03-06T00:00:00Z -41.2903782 174.8976432 Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa http://jackyan.com/blog/2015/03/found-a-facebook-bot-facebook-wants-you-to-leave-it-as-reporting-option-vanishes/ Facebook appears to be giving up on the bot fight. kapiti wilton seatoun waterfront newtown huttvalley northland kelburn begonia-house islandbay berhampore hataitai makara paraparaumu mountvictoria orientalbay newlands johnsonville mountcook wairarapa arovalley tawa roseneath lyallbay porirua cubastreet worserbay thorndon khandallah eastbourne ngaio titahi-bay paremata civic-square wainuiomata wadestown brooklyn stokes-valley kilbirnie karori miramar places election-candiates-2010 elections2010 local-body-elections blogs Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://jackyan.com/blog/2015/03/found-a-facebook-bot-facebook-wants-you-to-leave-it-as-reporting-option-vanishes/ Jack Yan 2015-03-06T00:00:00Z -41.2903782 174.8976432 Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa https://ttwblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/summer-interclub-round-2-results/ Week 2 results are below: 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Premier 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Divisions FYI the draw schedules are here. lyallbay johnsonville islandbay stokes-valley kapiti civic-square arovalley wainuiomata kilbirnie paremata paraparaumu waterfront thorndon makara wilton ngaio hataitai newtown khandallah begonia-house berhampore kelburn worserbay miramar wadestown mountvictoria mountcook newlands huttvalley tawa roseneath titahi-bay orientalbay seatoun brooklyn northland karori wairarapa eastbourne cubastreet porirua places tabletennis sport wcnhosted Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://ttwblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/summer-interclub-round-2-results/ Table Tennis Wellington 2015-03-05T00:00:00Z -41.246742 174.7905885 Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand http://cyclingwellington.co.nz/2015/03/commuting-by-bicycle-in-wellington/ In the past few years the number of people I see on bikes riding from Newtown to town in the morning has literally quadrupled. Unfortunately, many of the people I see stopped at the lights are on seriously terrible bikes. I’m see rusty, too-big or too-small mountain bikes with brakes that barely work and people look unconfident and uncomfortable on their bikes. Riding the wrong bike can actually make cycling seriously not fun. Recently several of my colleagues have gotten bicycles with the intention of cycling to work. I have noticed that they too seem to have missed some items that to me are essential for bike commuting. Namely: waterfront huttvalley kapiti kilbirnie porirua hataitai karori newtown cubastreet miramar khandallah titahi-bay ngaio orientalbay seatoun worserbay mountvictoria wilton mountcook paraparaumu roseneath wadestown paremata makara islandbay berhampore stokes-valley johnsonville eastbourne brooklyn begonia-house wairarapa kelburn northland thorndon civic-square newlands lyallbay wainuiomata arovalley tawa places cycling sport Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://cyclingwellington.co.nz/2015/03/commuting-by-bicycle-in-wellington/ Cycling in Wellington 2015-03-05T00:00:00Z -41.3110524 174.7780368 Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand