Mt Victoria Residents Association / August 2008
The Mt Victoria Residents Association is an active advocate on behalf of the community, aiming to further the interests of our neighbourhood with local and central government. We’ve been doing this work for decades, promoting the needs of residents and opposing inappropriate development in the neighbourhood.
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The Minister responds over Ellice St shops
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- The Mt Victoria Residents Association recently wrote to Annette King, the Minister responsible for the New Zealand Transport Agency, regarding the dilapidated state of the shops they have recently purchased at the bottom of Ellice Street.
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21 Ellice Street, Wellington
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New Pedestrian Crossing
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- The walk to Clyde Quay school is due to get a bit safer, thanks to a Wellington City Council initiative to add a pedestrian crossing at the Pirie Street/Porrit Ave corner.
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72 Pirie Street, Wellington
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Positive Meeting with Go Wellington
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- Good progress has been made with Go Wellington in an effort to resolve the issue of out-of-service buses using the Pirie Street bus tunnel.According to the Greater Wellington Council bylaw, only scheduled services that have been registered with the Council may use the tunnel. At a meeting convened by GWRC, Go Wellington acknowledged that there was an imperfect understanding of the rules by some drivers, and undertook to educate staff better.
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Hataitai tunnel, Wellington
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Public Meeting Highlights Town Belt Issues
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- A very well attended public meeting on Thursday night was the venue for the Crossways Community Trust to report back to Mt Victoria residents.
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Judicial Review of Resource Consent
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- The Mt Victoria Residents Association today announced that it had commenced proceedings in the High Court seeking a judicial review of the resource consent issued to the brothel at 103 Pirie Street by the Wellington City Council.Kent Duston, President of the Residents Association, said that “It’s our view that the Council did not take account of s15 of the Prostitution Law Reform Act 2003 when granting this resource consent.
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103 Pirie Street, Wellington
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Public Meeting on Thursday
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- This coming Thursday 21 August, the Crossways Community Trust will report back to Mt Victoria on the campaign to save Crossways, and where to from here.As the community knows, the campaign to save Crossways was unsuccessful, with the Presbyterian Church electing to simply sell the building to a private purchaser.
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Editorial: What About The Creche?
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- The Dominion Post printed an article on the sale of Crossways yesterday, which noted that the historic property had been sold. But absent from the newspaper was any discussion about the fate of Mt Victoria’s creche, which will need to vacate Crossways by the beginning of October.The Wellington City Council has been steadfastly opposed to keeping Crossways as a community centre, despite its importance to Mt Victoria.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Crossways Is Lost
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- Despite the thousands of hours of volunteer work, a million dollars in fundraising and the efforts of a whole community, the Presbyterian Church has decided to sell Crossways to another buyer.The Church announced today that they had accepted an offer of $1.31 million from an un-named purchaser who will convert the building back into a family home. While we are consoled that Crossways is unlikely to be demolished, it’s a sad end to three decades of community heritage.The Church’s actions - and the Council’s inaction - have been roundly condemned by many commentators.
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A Mural for the Tunnel
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- The Pirie Street bus tunnel has long been a magnet for graffiti, and in an effort to help make the area more attractive the Council is considering commissioning a mural. The design concept can be seen above, and has been designed by Robert Stewart.
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Hataitai bus tunnel, Hataitai, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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