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New generation of campaigners
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- A new generation of city campaigners emerged last week, when a group of Wellington College students launched a campaign to oppose over-development in Civic Square.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A trip to the Empire above Pae Kawakawa
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- Last Sunday my family found ourselves unexpectedly home early from a class noho marae. So we ended up doing a cycling trip to the Empire Cinema in Island Bay to see Encanto Reo Māori. Because the cycleway connection in Berhampore is only half built, we took a short-cut from our home in Berhampore to get to the Parade. The kids were very keen, as they always are, to get their “bikes on the road.” These streets from Adelaide Road in Berhampore to the Parade in Island Bay, Tapu te Ranga, are another group of city streets built above waterways. The Pae Kawakawa stream starts near Macalister Park and runs along these roads with feeder streams in Mornington and Southgate as well.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Shakespeare, cycling, tuna, and Aro Street
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Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What we want for Stride’s J’ville Mall
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Johnsonville Shopping Centre, Bill Cutting Place, Johnsonville East, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6037, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Free ride to Khandallah
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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No swimming – 15 wasted years
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- Sixteen years ago, the Wellington city council said it didn’t want to have a large empty building site in Mt Cook. A year later it got what it didn’t want. And the large empty building site in Mt Cook has stayed empty for fifteen years. The prime site has been empty since the city council allowed the Boys Institute swimming pool to be demolished to make way for a supermarket. Only the street frontage remained.
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Boys' Institute & S.A.Rhodes Home For Boys, Tasman Street, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Saving Petone’s wharf
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Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Defending Civic Square
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Archaeology in Newtown
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Making a mess of a waterfront park
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- We are appalled by what is proposed for Frank Kitts Park – sliced, diced, cut up by the City Council, and no longer a park but a building site. On Monday night a group of us – Civic Trust Board members – were invited to a presentation by Council Officers. They told us they were just doing what the Council had asked them to do: to progress a new building on Frank Kitts Park, but first to survey ‘the public’ over four weeks only, starting this Friday, by asking us whether we want a fale malae on Frank Kitts Park.
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Frank Kitts Park, Lambton, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What’s going on at Te Motu Kairangi?
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- Ian Cassels’ Wellington Company and Taranaki Whānui need to throw a much clearer light on their development plans for the Miramar Peninsula/Te Motu Kairangi, as reported in a front-page DomPost article, beyond PR puffery. At present, the waters are decidedly murky.
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Mount Crawford Prison (former), Nevay Road, Karaka Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A park? Or houses? Or both?
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- A regional park above Shelly Bay on the Miramar Peninsula? Or houses? Or is there room for both? A DomPost report today says that hundreds of new homes could be fast tracked on the Peninsula. Michael Daly writes that iwi Taranaki Whānui and developer Ian Cassels are applying for consent to build 600 to 700 houses on 8 hectares of the former Mt Crawford Prison which closed in 2012.
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Mount Crawford Prison (former), Nevay Road, Karaka Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Small notice, big building
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- Did any of you see a small sign in a spot that’s only visible if you’re catching the courtesy bus to Zealandia? It’s a notice about a resource consent application for a new building that will tower over the Michael Fowler Centre, the Town Hall, and neighbouring buildings. Nearly 40 metres high, when the allowable height is is 27 metres, promoted as the home of Victoria University’s National Music Centre but predominantly an office building with what seems to be a significant loss of green open space.
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Royal New Zealand Ballet, 115, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Andy Foster: a vision for Miramar
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Death and politics in a Newtown street
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Protecting Newtown’s diversity
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- were sold in 1889 in the Wellesley block. It is a diverse historic eclectic place, still retaining a bit of grunge and resembling the Cuba district – a creative, interesting, slightly edgy place to be. People love it and are never bored in Newtown, home of the Newtown Festival, the largest free festival in New Zealand.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sinking ship rats on the Miramar Peninsula
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Legal pollution at Titahi Bay
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Saving a 99-year-old pool
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- At last some cheerful news. Heritage is back with a capital H – the Wellington City Council has voted in favour of not only retaining but also rebuilding the open-air Khandallah Pool in Khandallah Park.
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bringing Civic Square back to life
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Losing our heart
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- Have I got this right? The Wellington City Council’s draft District Plan is proposing to remove the heritage listing protection of the heart of the city – Te Ngakau/Civic Centre, which is listed as a heritage area in the current District Plan. There’s also no regard for legal protection of the city’s two waterfront parks.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The real risk from sewage in Titahi Bay
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Newtown’s streets of history
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- As one of Wellington’s oldest suburbs, Newtown was initially undulating fields sloping to swampy ground ending up at the Basin Reserve. The Wellesley Block was advertised to settlers interested in a house with land. Mostly they’d come from dense tenements in the UK or slums in Te Aro.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Getting rid of traffic
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- Last week’s cautious city council move towards keeping traffic out of more of Cuba Street, and converting part of Dixon Street for pedestrians, should be welcomed by almost everyone, except for the few who still think that customers only arrive in cars. Councillors voted 11-3 to limit private vehicle access on Cuba Street between Ghuznee Street and Vivian Street, and on Dixon Street between Taranaki Street and Victoria Street.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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1500 days in Island Bay
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- Last Friday was 1,500 days since the Wellington City Council voted 13-1 to upgrade The Parade in Island Bay. So why hasn’t the work started? Here’s a rundown of everything that’s happened (or not happened) in the four years since then.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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What’s wrong with the systems?
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- For three years, Your Bay Your Say has brought awareness and transparency to the Titahi Bay and Porirua community about the not-fit-for-purpose Porirua Wastewater Treatment Plant, where there’ve been numerous malfunctions, bypasses for UV cleaning, and overflows of partially treated and raw sewage in heavy rain that discharge 700m from the popular Titahi Bay beach.
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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No plans, but they love it anyway
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- There was a night of magical thinking last Thursday when Wellington City Councillors debated the proposal to support a new building on the open green waterfront lawn of Frank Kitts Park. It was led by mayor Andy Foster, who said the fale maele proposal was “a magical concept, with the potential to be a great meeting place.” But it’s impossible to understand how he knows this, because there are no plans – not even a concept drawing – for anyone to see. Nothing. Perhaps Andy was looking into a crystal ball.
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Frank Kitts Park, Lambton, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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