WCC Watch and Places
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Hutt City Councillor calls out budget ‘trickery’
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- It wouldn’t hurt a few of Wellington’s supposedly opposition Councillors to take a leaf out of Wainuiomata Ward, Hutt City Councillor, Campbell Barry’s book and actually put a spotlight on Council finances.
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Sarah Free opens a can of worms
- WCC Watch
- Island Bay’s Green Eastern Ward battler, Sarah Free, may not have attracted a whole heap of attention in the last term – but she knows how to build a mean worm farm. Green credentials: TICK! Bottled worm piss: TICK!
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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New ways to waste money – it’s the #wadebrownwccway
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- We got a little bored with the Island Bay cycleway debacle – and judging by the Mayor’s lack of support in the media Celia Wade-Bicycle is also giving her troubled Island Bay project a wide berth.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Council prioritises Chinese Garden and Cycleway over Hospital Water Supply
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- Capital and Coast DHB Board Member and Porirua Mayor, Nick Leggett and Southern Ward Councillor, Paul Eagle, have highlighted a bizarre decision by Council to refuse to fund the emergency water reservoir that serves the Hospital.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Mayor (inadvertently) highlights land for social housing
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- In one of those quirks of history many New Zealand councils established golf courses to keep the people active and despite Government efforts being a little more sophisticated these days, Wellington ratepayers still own a course at Berhampore.
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Berhampore, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Eagle disgraces himself – saves wall, saves Pannett
- WCC Watch
- Great news for Island Bay with confirmation that the sea wall will be rebuilt.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Pannett puts career on line over sea wall
- WCC Watch
- In the Wellingtonian last week, Lambton ward councillor, Iona Pannett, said she would resign if the Island Bay sea wall was not rebuilt.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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A new candidate in Porirua?
- WCC Watch
- Spotted near the Police College in Porirua. Probably better than most of the existing candidates combined.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A new candidate in the Hutt?
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- Spotted near the Police College in Porirua. Probably better than most of the existing candidates combined.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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David Farrar on Regional Council candidates
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- David Farrar has blogged some thoughts on the candidates for the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Porirua-Tawa Jenny Brash and Barbara Donaldson are the only nominees for two positions so are […]
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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STV voting on the Death Star in 1 minute
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- Check out this awesome video from Porirua City Councillor, ‘Ana Coffey, voiced by Mayor Nick Leggett. We’ve heard lots of people asking if they need to rank all the candidates in […]
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Spam for Morrison
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- A reader has just sent in this email he’s received from the pub the Khandallah Trading Company, who are venturing into local government politics. While the email never mentions John […]
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It isn’t easy being Green
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- The campaign is well and truly underway with the Aro Valley meeting tonight – but the question is, where is Celia Wade-Brown? Where is her campaign? I spent the weekend […]
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Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Meanwhile in Hutt Valley – Wallace rolls on
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- After covering Porirua I got asked if we were going to do anything on the Hutt… naturally my immediate response was, uh why? But then I found Mayor Ray Wallace’s Facebook page – and boy has he been busy.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Our friends in the north: a look at Porirua
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- The announcement that Porirua Mayor, Nick Leggett, is standing for the DHB in an area that creeps into Wellington, provides the opportunity to take a closer look at what’s happening over the border.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Get hitched
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- Freshly minted Northern Ward candidate Jacob Toner wants to foster resilient communities to make sure Wellington is ready for many risks it faces by introducing Hutt Valley inspired ‘Hitching Posts’ around the city.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Will Lyn of Tawa end Pepperell’s political career?
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- Ginette McDonald’s surprise entrance into the Southern Ward race is a real game changer and finally breathes some life into an otherwise boring sausage fest .
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council buys $200,000 rubbish truck, then privitises rubbish collection
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- The Dominion Post report: Kapiti residents will have to pay for their rubbish to be collected privately as the council dumps its kerbside trash collection.
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Hitler loses the plot with the three Wairarapa Mayors re: Wgtn Super City
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- It was only a matter of time until this happened – a reader sent this version associated with the Better Wairapapa lobby group in to us this afternoon.
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Hutt Valley Mayor wants a bigger office
- WCC Watch
- You will remember WCC Mayor, Celia Wade-Brown, came under fire from the Dom Post for the $350k upgrade of her office to ‘luxury nest’ status.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Karori needs your help
- WCC Watch
- Recently, we saw the transformation of the Newlands town centre which goes a long way to bringing a rather dull suburb up to speed.
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Vandals attack fake rugby turf…
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- A pretty sad story in this morning’s Dom Post… Vandals have tried to set fire to an artificial rugby field set up in Civic Square for kids to play the game during the Rugby World Cup.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Shared spaces – a call to arms
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- Greg Bondar has written an excellent critique on The Wellingtonista, discussing the new “shared space” on Lower Cuba Street.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Shared Library resources
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- The Kapi-Mana reports that members of the Porirua, Lower Hutt, Kapiti Coast and Masterton libraries, as well as the Whitireia and WelTec polytechnic libraries, will soon all be able to reserve books from each other.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington Free Wi-Fi Launched
- WCC Watch
- Great news! As of today, there is now free wifi from the stadium to the Embassy theatre, all along the waterfront, golden mile and up Cuba St. Official press releases are here from WCC and CitiLink. You can also follow the service on Twitter – currently it looks like there are quite a few happy users out there!
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Cable car terminal upgrade – submission time!
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- Council owned Wellington Cable Car Ltd is currently doing consultation on their plans to upgrade their Kelburn terminal at the top of the cable car.
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Social housing?
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- PHIL REID/The Dominion Post Now the reason I’ve been motivated to write something new for WCC Watch after months of inactivity is the disgraceful news that an 88 year old pensioner has been found dead in his Newtown Park Flat.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellywood: Celia provides leadership
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- Last night at Council, Celia Wade-Brown moved a motion asking the airport to reconsider it’s proposed Wellywood sign.
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More Wellywood updates…
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- A few quick updates on the Wellywood issue… Quite a few people are asking about legal issues around a high court challenge.
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Wellywoodgate: Celia – where for art thou?
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- More on Celia vs Wellywood, this time straight from the Wellingtonista… As a side note, it’s particularly distressing to see Celia Wade-Brown admitting her total powerlessness: Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown said yesterday that she did not support a sign of any kind.
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