Wellington City Council / July 2024
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Council CE Barbara McKerrow to conclude full term in 2025
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- Wellington City Council’s Chief Executive Barbara McKerrow has informed Mayor Tory Whanau and Councillors that she will not seek an extension to her five-year term, which will conclude on 1 March 2025.
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Te Ngākau: The city within our city
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- A city within a city – that’s how Te Ngākau Civic Square Programme Manager Farzad Zamani describes the heart of Wellington.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Council projects recognised with awards and acknowledgement
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- Wellington City Council is the proud recipient of a number of gongs and accolades recently, celebrating a range of innovative initiatives and creative works in Pōneke.
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Your Wellington City Council rates, explained
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- Rates help Wellington City Council deliver more than 400 day-to-day services, and help pay for what has been borrowed to fund major infrastructure projects across Pōneke.
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Pickleball champion relishes in the game
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- Will Dewhirst, Ākau Tangi’s programmes team lead, never expected a senior’s session of pickleball to snowball into him travelling to Peru for the Pickleball World Cup. His accidental introduction to the sport in 2018 sparked a passion that’s enriched both his life and the lives of countless others in his community.
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The winter of our content
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- The events calendar is heating up in Pōneke with the month of August chock full of winter warming festivities.
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Community-led farmers’ market achieves a lot
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- Where some folks in Karori saw an empty Council lot, Sharon Powick and Joanne Thorlby saw an opportunity to create a flourishing community marketplace.
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Youth Hub wants you to picture it
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- The soon-to-open youth hub Te Tai Ohinga is looking for original artwork by young artists depicting what’s important to rangatahi, celebrating diversity and telling a story to suit the new exciting space.
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Beware the rag monsters and fatbergs!
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- They’re the fiends of the flush, the pipe-blocking perpetrators, the u-bend bandits – they’re ragmonsters and fatbergs, and here’s how you can avoid them in your pipes.
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On the front lines: Meet soldier and lifeguard James Mallett
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- James Mallett’s regime is not for the faint-hearted. As an NZ Army Reserve Force soldier, senior lifeguard and full-time commerce student, his weeks are challenging and jam-packed.
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Courtenay Place: Our past, present and future
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- Change has always been a part of the history of Courtenay Place.
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Rangatahi mural project making waves on Willis Street
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- Have you noticed something colourful on Willis Street? That’s the new mural for Te Tai Ohinga, the upcoming free space in the city for young people aged 13 to 18.
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Students’ vision for heart of the city on display
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- An exhibition showcasing works by architecture and design innovation students envisioning the future of Te Ngākau Civic Precinct is now open to the public until 23 July.
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Thorndon Quay pavement designs honour hidden awa
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- Once burbling streams lie buried beneath the pavement on Thorndon Quay. We’re bringing them back to the light with beautiful etchings.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Swan Lane and Garrett Street one year on
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- It’s been a year since the upgrades for Swan Lane and Garrett Street were completed. We checked in to see how Wellingtonians have been enjoying the upgraded space.
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Swan Lane, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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“Once in a lifetime opportunity” to map city’s pipes and cables
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- The infrastructure industry gathered at Tākina Wellington Convention & Exhibition Centre this week for the launch of a revolutionary, New Zealand-leading platform to map the buried pipes and cables that could save infrastructure organisations millions of dollars each year.
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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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Fun facts about the St James Theatre
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- There's a lot to learn about the iconic St James theatre. Here's a few things you may not know about the venue.
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The history of wastewater in Wellington city
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- In the late 1800s, Wellington city was growing at a rapid speed but there wasn’t a wastewater network to match the rising population. In fact, 77 deaths were linked to sewerage-soaked backyards. Here is a brief history of wastewater in the city and what we’re focusing on in the future.
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Council nearly doubles affordable Te Kāinga rental properties
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- Wellington City Council’s Te Kāinga programme is set to increase by an extra 183 affordable rental properties with the addition of two new buildings to the scheme.
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Little blue penguins live – and die – on our coastline
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- Kororā live all around the coastline of Te Whanganui a Tara, from the rocky beaches and coastal scrub to the waterfront – unfortunately they are dying in there too.
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Quirky queries found in the City Archives
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- Are you being served? We help hundreds of residents daily with all kinds of questions, but sometimes there are those questions that really stick in your mind…
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Latest Residents Monitoring Survey results released
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- The annual Residents Monitoring Survey (RMS) provides an estimate of what the city population thinks, with samples randomly selected from the Council’s Capital Views Panel.
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Streets with interesting histories
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- From a raging jazz club to a famous Rangatira (chief) to one of the wealthiest families in Aotearoa; discover the fascinating history and stories behind five of Wellington's streets.
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Paving the way with climate-positive chipseal
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- After years of trials and development, Wellington City Council is paving the way with a new approach to roading materials that have less of a bad rep with residents and significantly reduces environmental impacts.
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