Wellington City Council / June 2023
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Friday Five: Ways to play this winter
- Wellington City Council
- The fun never stops in our vibrant city. Winter is a great time to explore the outdoors. Here are some of our favourite ways to play in Wellington this winter.
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Annual Plan and rates confirmed
- Wellington City Council
- Councillors have adopted the Wellington City Council 2023/24 Annual Plan, confirming the 12.3 percent rates rise previously signalled. The increase equates to an average of about $8 per household per week and will apply from 1 July.
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Khandallah Pool report complete
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council commissioned a technical report to better understand the existing site conditions at Khandallah Pool and park area. The report covered flood modelling, a geotechnical report, infrastructure review and a site analysis.
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Khandallah Summer Pool, Khandallah Park, Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Waste Auditor with the gift of the gab
- Wellington City Council
- The cat’s out of the bag – and its body was shoved into a bin. That’s one of the worst things Merv has found in a Council recycling bin in his time as a Wellington City Council Waste Auditor.
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Green light to map what’s beneath Wellington’s streets
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council has approved a New Zealand-leading initiative to build an updateable digital map, recording where all of the underground pipes and cables are beneath the city’s roads and footpaths.
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Public notice around privacy breach
- Wellington City Council
- On 20 June 2023, Wellington City Council became aware of a privacy breach.
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Help fine tune climate-friendly street changes for Brooklyn
- Wellington City Council
- A safer bike connection up Brooklyn Road to the shops and lots of safer new crossings for people on foot are among the latest climate-friendly street changes open for feedback from today.
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Brooklyn Road, Fitchettown, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Nairnville Park play area renewal set to swing into action
- Wellington City Council
- Renewal and upgrade work on the Nairnville Park play area in Khandallah is scheduled to start Monday 3 July – if the weather plays nice!
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Nairnville Park, Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Waste concrete gets new life under harbourside paths
- Wellington City Council
- The new bike and walking paths going in around Evans Bay are providing the means to get about in climate-friendly ways – and also helping reduce waste by making use of recycled materials.
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Interested in Pōneke Promise progress? - this Review Report might help
- INNER-CITY WELLINGTON
- Pōneke Promise Review A varied programme of work is currently underway under the vision of the Pōneke Promise, to make central Wellington safe, vibrant, and welcoming After two years of Pōneke Promise programmes, the WCC proposed a qualitative review amongst partners and stakeholders to understand experiences and learnings to date, and to highlight areas of interest and focus moving forward.
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Let’s Get Wellington Moving: please, councillors, keep your eyes on the prize
- Talk Wellington
- A bunch of WCC councillors are poised to throw not just the proverbial baby, but our whole reproductive system out with the bathwater. Sounds stupid? It is. Yet here we are, so please help keep their eyes on the prize! What’s happening on Thursday? Wellington city councillors have to vote whether to support or oppose...
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List of the 25 buildings being checked by City Council following fatal fire
- Wellington City Council
- In the immediate aftermath of the 16 May Loafers Lodge fire, Mayor Tory Whanau asked Wellington City Council’s Building Consents and Compliance (BCC) team to urgently identify any similar buildings providing residential accommodation across Wellington City.
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The team behind the Council's welfare response
- Wellington City Council
- When the phone rang at 1am about the fire at Loafers Lodge, the Connected Communities team at Wellington City Council kicked into gear to start helping those who had been affected with a welfare response.
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Friday Five: Explore Island Bay
- Wellington City Council
- Loved by locals, this beach-side suburb has it all – a gorgeous sandy beach looking out at Taputeranga Island, a popular park overlooking the water, a range of tasty eateries and much more. We’ve put together five things you can do to explore the area.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Newtown's refreshed Community and Cultural Centre
- Wellington City Council
- The upgraded Newtown Community and Cultural Centre encompasses all the personality of Newtown – quintessentially quirky, retro, and full of life.
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Newtown Community & Cultural Centre, Colombo Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Think twice before throwing food in the bin
- Wellington City Council
- Food waste accounts for a staggering 409,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in New Zealand annually. The average Wellingtonian throws out 3.2kg of food per week, which adds up to 30,000 tonnes of food scraps going to landfill each year, the same weight as 62 jumbo jets!
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Colin Feral’s criminal past: EXPOSED
- Wellington City Council
- He’s the cutest security champion at the Council and the floofiest ginger – but will his dark past as a serial trespasser be his downfall? Or will his reformed ways prove an inspiration to many?
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Whakamaru: Wellington City Mission’s new community hub
- Wellington City Council
- The Wellington City Mission is embarking on one of its biggest initiatives since the organisation began almost 120 years ago. After discovering a near-derelict building in Mount Cook four years ago, City Missioner Murray Edridge had the vision for Whakamaru – a new 24/7 residential and community services hub.
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Wellington City Mission, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington City Draft Speed Management Plan withdrawn from public engagement
- Wellington City Council
- Public engagement on Wellington City Council’s Draft Speed Management Plan has been halted after a significant error found in consultation papers.
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Get to know Vondy Thornton, Empowering Communities Manager
- Wellington City Council
- From setting up a Council Rainbow Advisory Group to championing a pool event for transgender and non-binary folks to safely swim – community work has always been Vondy Thornton’s bread and butter.
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Libraries doing just fine without fines
- Wellington City Council
- A year on from removing overdue fines, Wellington City Libraries (WCL) has seen some significant changes around customer behaviour and their working environment.
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Sully's: Wellington's sustainably sourced fashion boutique
- Wellington City Council
- Tucked away on Ghuznee Street is a small but mighty boutique that aims to tackle climate action through sustainable fashion.
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Courtenay precinct getting some TLC
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council is working with local businesses and community groups on a big co-ordinated clean up day for Courtenay Place.
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Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tākina off to a great start just one week on
- Wellington City Council
- Just over a week after opening, visitor numbers to Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre and the Jurassic World by Brickman exhibition are already exceeding expectations.
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Tākina - Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Exhibition looks at building a better future
- Wellington City Council
- A new exhibition looks at future public spaces and housing developments in Wellington through the eyes of landscape architecture students.
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The snow-down on Snow Leopards at Wellington Zoo
- Wellington City Council
- Snow Leopards, Asha and Manju, are the coolest cats in town. These lovely kitties were born in 2020, and recently made the move from Melbourne Zoo to Wellington. With people flocking to see them in their new purpose-built home, Wellington Zoo has shared 10 fun facts about Snow Leopards.
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Wellington Zoological Gardens, Manchester Street, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Special Matariki Our Wellington magazine out this week
- Wellington City Council
- Everything you need to know about life in the capital this winter is in our special Matariki Our Wellington - Tō Tātou Pōneke, which is being delivered to letterboxes this week.
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Whiria te tāngata - Wellington City Council Chief Executive wins top award
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council Chief Executive Barbara McKerrow has won the Distinguished Management Award at the Taituarā Local Government Excellence Awards event held in the capital city on Thursday 8 June.
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10 fun facts about the Brickman LEGO® exhibition at Tākina
- Wellington City Council
- The largest LEGO® exhibition in New Zealand is currently on at Tākina, with over 6 million pieces of LEGO® bricks being used. Check out some fun facts about the Jurassic World by Brickman® exhibition from the mastermind, Ryan ‘Brickman’ McNaught.
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Tākina - Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Festival looks to future
- Wellington Scoop
- Judging by the two bikes outside (one mine), the Festival of the Future wasn’t for cyclists. Food was also scarce at the outset of the two-day first event at Takina, Wellington’s stylish new convention centre. But that was remedied on day two and there’s a lovely cafe on the ground floor of the impressive building.
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Tākina - Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council puts renters first with new Housing Action Plan
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council today approved its Housing Action Plan 2023-2025 with the Mayor and City Councillors approving several new actions to support better housing outcomes in the city.
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Friday Five: Ways to protect native birds in your backyard
- Wellington City Council
- In Pōneke, we’re lucky to see manu/birds of all shapes and sizes visiting our backyards. From the loud kākā to the iridescent kererū, it can be super exciting to see these birds but we need to be conscious of how we interact with them. Here are five tips from Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne to take care of birds in your garden.
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Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Traffic disruption on Victoria Street as tower crane is installed at Te Matapihi
- Wellington City Council
- As part of the Te Matapihi Central Library strengthening and refurbishment project, L.T. McGuinness is preparing to install a tower crane onto the Victoria Street site from Monday 12 - 15 June (weather permitting).
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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Explore Pōneke by e-bike
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington City Council introduced an inaugural e-bike tour earlier this year – it was such a success a series of bookable tours will be a regular fixture on the calendar.
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Airport exhibition takes off at Kilbirnie
- Wellington City Council
- With the launch of the newly digitised Ronald Cameron Airport Collection, we take a look back at a version of Rongotai that no longer exists.
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Kilbirnie Library - Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Don’t fetch the paper - dog registrations are going digital
- Wellington City Council
- With an average of 200 new dog registrations being processed a month, Wellington City Council is making registering your dog easier, faster and more efficient by going paperless for the 2023/24 registration period.
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Community-led project culminates in colourful mural
- Wellington City Council
- A three-year, community-led project has culminated in a stunning mural that stretches around the surface of a water tank in Karori – effectively making the old concrete structure disappear into its surrounding natural environment.
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Montgomery Avenue, Karori West, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Miramar Minor Safety Works
- Kōrero Mai | Let's Talk | Wellington City Council
- We are proposing line marking changes at the intersection of Townsend-Otaki and Athens Street.
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Wellington wins global prize for bike network vision and roll-out
- Wellington City Council
- Wellington and its innovative bike network has gained global recognition, $650,000 in prize money, and a place on the prestigious Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI).
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College Sport Wellington withholding ground payments to HCC and WCC
- College Sport Wellington
- College Sport Wellington has announced today it will withhold payments on Hutt City Council and Wellington City Council ...
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Friday Five: What to do in Wellington over King’s Birthday weekend
- Wellington City Council
- Wanting some inspiration on what to do in the capital over the King’s Birthday long weekend? Check out these five fun activities.
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Loafers Lodge remembrance service
- Wellington City Council
- A Service of Remembrance for those who lost their lives at Loafers Lodge, and those impacted by the tragedy, will be held at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, 2 Hill St, at 5.30 pm on Thursday 15 June.
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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