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.
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.
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.
Macey Fraser and the Wellington Phoenix have mutually agreed to terminate the remainder of her contract with the club. The talented midfielder made seven substitute appearances for the Phoenix in their history-making 2025-26 Ninja A-League season after sitting out the... The post Fraser farewells the Nix appeared first on Wellington Phoenix.
It’s an 11-peat of titles for the St Mary’s College First XV, but this one will be shared. St Mary’s, winners of the Wellington schoolgirls title every year since 2015, and Taita College contested a thrilling 27-27 draw in the final on Wednesday night at Porirua Park. St Mary’s now go on to play Manukura...
During her Museum and Heritage Studies placement at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden in June 2026, Claire Ranby took a particular interest in the interior decoration of Katherine Mansfield House & Garden and what it can tell us about trends at the end of the Victorian era and beginning of the 20th century.
