Wellington City Council / June 2021
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Friday Five: Ways to celebrate Matariki this month
- Wellington City Council
- Matariki, or Pūanga for some, is a time of remembrance, celebration and renewal. This year we are celebrating the Māori New Year in Pōneke with live and digital events, star hunts, art exhibitions, workshops and more! Here’s how you can get involved.
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Top spots for stargazing the Matariki cluster
- Wellington City Council
- Matariki is a special time in the Māori calendar (Maramataka) that brings the old year to a close and heralds the new year. Our amazing city has many stargazing vantage points. Here are five spots where you and your whānau can go to locate the star cluster.
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Council adopts Long-term plan
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Councillors adopted the Tō Mātou Mahere Ngahuru Tau/Long-term Plan at a full Council meeting on Wednesday 30 June 2021.
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Ahi Kā waharoa recall harbour’s cultural heritage
- Wellington City Council
- Wellingtonians and visitors attending Wellington City Council’s Matariki ki Pōneke Festival will be welcomed to Ahi Kā by two special waharoa (entranceways) that pay cultural tribute to the capital.
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Change plastic habits for good this July
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council is once again joining the global Plastic Free July campaign by supporting events, organisations and initiatives to help change plastic habits for good.
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Springbok tour comes to life on Twitter for anniversary
- Wellington City Council
- The 1981 South African Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand divided a nation – 40 years on, we’re revisiting this historic event with a modern twist.
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Public Place Recycling trial ends, stations to be removed
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council will remove nine public recycling stations around the city in mid-July, following the completion of its Public Place Recycling (PPR) trial.
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Spatial Plan adopted
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City’s draft Spatial Plan – designed to guide development of housing for up to 80,000 more people over the next three decades – was the main feature of a marathon meeting of the City Council’s Pūroro Āmua Planning and Environment Committee on Thursday 24 June.
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A City for People declares victory as Wellington City Council passes an ambitious Spatial Plan, but calls on Central Government to speed up implementation, infrastructure.
- Renters United
- A City for People, Generation Zero, and Renters United are elated that Wellington City Councillors passed a more ambitious Spatial Plan today that goes above and beyond the original Draft Spatial Plan.
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A City for People declares victory as Wellington City Council passes an ambitious Spatial Plan
- A City for People
- A City for People declares victory as Wellington City Council passes an ambitious Spatial Plan, but calls on Central Government to speed up implementation, infrastructure.
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Friday Five: Making the most of the midwinter madness
- Wellington City Council
- Winter in Wellington – it’s wet, it’s wild and it’s windy. But it’s also a little bit wonderful. Here are some warm ideas to get you through to spring.
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Long-term Plan to be adopted next week
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Councillors will formally adopt the Tō Mātou Mahere Ngahuru Tau/Long-term Plan at a full Council meeting on Wednesday 30 June 2021.
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Council votes to make Thorndon Quay safer for cyclists
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council’s Pūroro Āmua Planning and Environment Committee voted today to replace angle car parking with parallel car parking along Thorndon Quay.
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Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Services and facilities in Capital at COVID-19 Alert Level 2
- Wellington City Council
- Following the Government announcement today, Wellington City Council can confirm the status of its services and facilities as the region moves into Alert Level 2 at 6pm tonight until 11.59pm Sunday 27 June.
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Council amends Alcohol Fees Bylaw
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington ratepayers will subsidise less of the cost of alcohol licensing in the city after the Council unanimously voted to amend its Alcohol Fees Bylaw to increase how much some alcohol licence holders pay to obtain or renew their licence.
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Cemeteries Management Plan gets the green light
- Wellington City Council
- A new management plan for Mākara, Karori and Tawa cemeteries has been approved, following a unanimous vote by Wellington City Councillors today.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Te Wāhi Āwhina a pillar for the community
- Wellington City Council
- Since opening, more than 30 service providers and organisations have been engaged with, or based in, Te Wāhi Āwhina to provide information or services including housing, food and welfare provisions.
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Work on Hataitai roundabout set to start
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council is installing a roundabout at a busy four-way intersection in Hataitai in response to some safety concerns from the local community.
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington’s 100 million cycleway spin
- Diane Calvert
- WCC recently asked its citizens about its proposed spending over the next 10 years. In addition to its Let’s Get Wellington Moving contribution of $270 million (which includes additional cycleways), it proposed increasing its cycling ways budget to $120m (based on affordability and the ability to deliver).
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Absolutely positive about the arts
- Wellington City Council
- Eighty-two per cent of Wellingtonians attended or participated in the arts last year, with the overall impact from COVID-19 an increase in positive feelings from Wellingtonians towards the arts.
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Friday Five: Things to do with your canine companion this weekend
- Wellington City Council
- Bored of doing the same walk every weekend with your four-legged best friend? Or thinking you might treat them to a spot of lunch somewhere? Here's a list of five things every owner could do with their pooch this weekend…
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Kilbirnie main pool to close for maintenance
- Wellington City Council
- The Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre (WRAC) main pool is set to close from 5 July until early September for its five-yearly maintenance.
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington finalist in Global Mayors Challenge
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington is among 50 champion cities selected to advance in global innovation competition uncovering most transformative urban solutions to emerge during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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20 Twenty One: Neil Price
- Wellington City Council
- He’s observed a town transform into a city, worked alongside seven mayors, and snapped images of the Queen – Neil Price has seen it all and has four million or more photos to prove it. Meet Wellington city’s official photographer who's been on the job for 34 years and counting.
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Special Matariki Our Wellington out this week
- Wellington City Council
- A special Matariki section and a handy pull-out recycling guide are the stars of the latest Our Wellington.
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Friday Five: Our libraries have your weekend sorted
- Wellington City Council
- If you are crafty, a book lover, a movie enthusiast, music lover, art lover or a combination of all five, there is something for everyone at our libraries this weekend!
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Let your creativity flow at Waitohi's Makerspace
- Wellington City Council
- When you think of a library, you usually just picture a big room of books – but that only scratches the surface of what the Waitohi community hub at Johnsonville offers. Tucked away in the corner of the library is our Makerspace, or 'The Hive' as it is known.
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We 'need to do all we can' to fight climate change
- Wellington City Council
- When you first meet Alison Howard she doesn’t seem too scary. But once the typically calm, mild-mannered manager of Wellington City Council’s Climate Change Response team starts talking about what awaits us if we don’t take climate change seriously, things get a little frightening.
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Linden’s Kai Kitchen meals to restart in July
- Wellington City Council
- The well-loved, weekly community Kai Kitchen meals are currently on hold but will start again on Friday 2 July.
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Selling council housing is not the answer
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council made a peculiar decision last week, unanimously. In one resolution there was a good decision, and then a bad decision undermining the good decision. The good decision was that the Council supported advocacy to the Government for financial assistance for those most in need of rental relief through an income related rental subsidy (IRRS), available to state housing tenants, but denied to Council tenants. The bad decision was that it resolved to begin a process of getting rid of its exemplary award-winning Council housing and to start a distracting and entangled process of slowly but sur
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The 80s called and they’ve given their magazine back
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Libraries is bringing the past back to the future with the popular 1980s Wellington City Magazine now accessible online.
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The history of Jervois Quay
- Wellington City Council
- This Queen’s Birthday long weekend, Jervois Quay will be closed to replace the damaged and aging stormwater pipe which caused some disruptions earlier in the year.
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Jervois Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Friday Five: Things to do this Queen's Birthday Weekend
- Wellington City Council
- Wondering what to do this Queen’s Birthday weekend other than sofa snuggling? Here's a list of five fun things you and the whānau can do in Pōneke.
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Matariki ki Pōneke Festival – watch this space
- Wellington City Council
- Matariki ki Pōneke Festival 2021 will be a time to celebrate, remember and honour our diversity, culture and combined history with a two-week festival of live and digital events, exhibitions, workshops and online activities.
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Council seeks talks on social housing
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council’s Pūroro Rangaranga Social, Cultural and Economic Committee met this week to confirm the Council’s commitment to social housing and agree a pathway forward to resolving the financial challenges relating to social-housing provision.
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Council resets, in name and spirit
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council has held its first committee meeting today as recommended in the Winder Report on Council governance.
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Council united in commitment to increase affordable housing
- Wellington City Council
- Council’s Pūroro Rangaranga – Social, Cultural and Economic Committee met yesterday, and unanimously committed to proactive developments to increase the supply of affordable housing in Wellington.
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Council funding focus on Pōneke Promise
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council has put its money where its mouth is and approved funding of several organisations to support the Pōneke Promise – a social contract to collectively deliver a safer, more vibrant, and compassionate city.
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The story behind our sea walls
- Wellington City Council
- The sea walls of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington tell us the story of the early protection infrastructure around our bays, and contribute to the character and recreation of these coastlines. Three of these walls at Oriental Bay, Lyall Bay and Owhiro Bay are currently being upgraded so that they can continue to protect us all for years to come. Here’s their story.
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Owhiro Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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