https://wellington.gen.nz/wellington-scoop+wcc Items tagged with Wellington Scoop and Wellington City Council. http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39298 rwc wcc rugby sport government media Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39298 Wellington Scoop 2011-10-10T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39146 I hope the Wellington City Council doesn’t give up on its efforts to get the roading improvements that are best for the city, in spite of the government’s short-sighted attitude towards tunnels. Even the Transport Agency accepts the benefits of Option X, as councillors discovered at Tuesday’s briefing. wcc basinreserve government transport media Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39146 Wellington Scoop 2011-10-06T00:00:00Z -41.30037055 174.7802503270504 Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39143 Wellington city councillors were told yesterday that the government will not pay for Option X. What would be best for the city is not acceptable for the politicians. They want the cheapest possible deal. Not that the government delivered this decision directly. The information emerged at a briefing meeting, almost as a throwaway line, in response to a question from a councillor who asked: “In terms of funding for Option X, what are the chances of the government fronting up with the extra money?” basinreserve wcc transport government media Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39143 Wellington Scoop 2011-10-05T00:00:00Z -41.30037055 174.7802503270504 Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39078 Wellington City Councillors have been told that a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve will have seriously significant negative consequences. Yet they’re being advised to shrug off these problems, and to support the flyover rather than Option X which doesn’t require an elevated road. Councillors should not agree to this bad advice. wcc basinreserve government transport media Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=39078 Wellington Scoop 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z -41.30037055 174.7802503270504 Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=38974 You need to compare two different sources to find out what happened to the word “green” at last night’s Wellington City Council meeting. conservation wcc government media Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=38974 Wellington Scoop 2011-09-29T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=37359 wcc government media Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=37359 Wellington Scoop 2011-08-10T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=37018 As Mayor Celia Wade-Brown continues her opposition to the Basin Reserve flyover, it’s sad that so few Wellington city councillors are showing similar concern. It’s equally lamentable that councillors aren’t protesting at the lack of democracy in the the planning process. basinreserve wcc transport government media Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=37018 Wellington Scoop 2011-08-03T00:00:00Z -41.30037055 174.7802503270504 Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=34654 The Wellington City Council will today be deciding to spend money preparing to review its ten-year-old waterfront framework. The council will be wasting the money. It’s planning to ask questions to which it already knows the answers. There’s no need for a review. waterfront wcc places government media Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=34654 Wellington Scoop 2011-05-12T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=33273 The Wellington City Council yesterday announced an add-on to next year’s budget – an extra $120,000 “to improve community emergency preparedness.” In the same announcement, we’re told that the average rates increase is going up to 4.4 per cent from the previously announced 4.3 per cent. Curiously, the council also tells us that rates increases for homeowners and commercial property owners will be coming down. rates wcc government media Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=33273 Wellington Scoop 2011-03-29T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32825 rates wcc government media Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32825 Wellington Scoop 2011-03-14T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32393 With the Wellington City Council’s Funding, Activities and Revenue working party finishing its deliberations, the prospect of homeowners being asked to shoulder the rates burden again is almost a foregone conclusion. That will mean another zero rates increase to the owners of commercial buildings and another seven percent increase for home owners. wcc rates government media Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32393 Wellington Scoop 2011-03-04T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=30985 We learnt last week that the Wellington City Council earns $6000 every year from each of its pay-and-display parking spaces. The news came in a statement from the Mayor, responding to a DomPost report that the council was thinking of ending free parking for motorbikes and scooters. Not so, she said. parking wcc transport government media Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=30985 Wellington Scoop 2011-01-19T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=28157 wcc government media Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=28157 Wellington Scoop 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/2010/08/threat-to-johnsonville-property-values-planning-changes-become-election-issue/ The Johnsonville Progressive Association has today been describing a basic fear of property owners whose savings are in their houses. The association says that Johnsonville residents are upset by the Wellington City Council’s District Plan Change 72, which councilors will be voting on tomorrow. It fears that the changes will push their suburb down the socio-economic ladder. And if Johnsonville goes down, down with it will go the value of the houses. johnsonville wcc elections2010 places government local-body-elections media Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/2010/08/threat-to-johnsonville-property-values-planning-changes-become-election-issue/ Wellington Scoop 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/2010/08/what-to-do-with-parking-fines/ After claims that Wellington parking wardens were given ipods and overseas trips to encourage revenue gathering, the Wellington City Council put an end to the speculation – there was just one ipod, and one overseas trip. Both prizes were gifted in a warden’s competition which had nothing to do with how much revenue they’d collected. Fair enough, too. Many employees are offered rewards for a whole range of reasons. But public perception is hard to shake. So, what should the council do? Here’s an idea that’s guaranteed to please everybody. Well, nearly everybody. wcc parking government transport media Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/2010/08/what-to-do-with-parking-fines/ Wellington Scoop 2010-08-20T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/2010/08/communication-non-communication/ Fifteen days ago we reported that the Wellington City Council had breached its design brief for the waterfront. Because this was a serious allegation, I referred it to the council and invited a response. Perhaps, I thought, the council might admit it had made a mistake. But since then: silence. The lack of response seems to be a sort of guilty plea from the council, which is usually quick to speak out in its own defence. wcc waterfront government places media Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/2010/08/communication-non-communication/ Wellington Scoop 2010-08-17T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25746 It didn’t seem to be a good day for Wellington Mayor Prendergast at Wednesday’s meeting of her council’s strategy and policy committee. After an amendment to the city-wide alcohol ban was proposed by Cr Wain – to limit its extension to two suburbs where there was public support for it – the mayor instructed the councilors that, by living in the city voted 12th in the world in quality of life, they should “have the guts” to vote for the city-wide ban which she favoured. liquorban wcc issues government media Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25746 Wellington Scoop 2010-06-26T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25463 Soon after the government announced its tax cuts, the Wellington City Council moved in the opposite direction and announced its annual increase in rates. Last week’s announcement tells us that the rates for Wellington home owners are going up by an average of 5.75 per cent. The increase is even higher than than the figure which the council announced a month ago – when it said that 5.5 per cent was to be the increase for home owners. wcc rates government media Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25463 Wellington Scoop 2010-06-08T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=24725 The Wellington City Council’s waterfront company is keeping the pressure on councilors to pay for two expensive and controversial projects which haven’t yet been approved. By June next year, says Wellington Waterfront Ltd in its Statement of Intent which was given to councilors on Friday, plans for the temporary ice skating rink and the temporary sideless tent “will be significantly advanced, if not completed.” wcc waterfront ice-skating-rink government places issues media Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=24725 Wellington Scoop 2010-05-03T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=24459 he city council phoned me this week. It wanted to know what I thought about its plan for a city-wide drinking ban 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It wasn’t actually the council who called. It was a market research company, hired by the council. But the questioning were more or less unbiased, except when the researcher told me the police prefer a city-wide ban. However he didn’t push the council view. liquorban wcc issues government media Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=24459 Wellington Scoop 2010-04-28T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=24265 A month ago when we published a series of articles asking the Wellington City Council for more information about unpaid rates and ground rents, the whole town seemed to know that Terry Serepisos was involved. But the council guarded its secret. wcc developments government realestate media Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=24265 Wellington Scoop 2010-04-24T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23921 in the Wellington City Council’s draft annual plan for 2010/11 there is a major threat to our current library system – with potential for Wadestown, Brooklyn, Island Bay and Khandallah to lose their libraries. wadestown khandallah islandbay brooklyn wcc consultation libraries places government media Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23921 Wellington Scoop 2010-04-18T00:00:00Z -41.246742 174.7905885 Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23573 City councilors have failed to persuade the council-owned Wellington Waterfront company to save money by reducing the cost of new public toilets. In November, the councilors instructed the company to explore how to reduce the estimated $400,000 cost of new public toilets on the waterfront at Kumutoto. waterfront wcc places government media Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23573 Wellington Scoop 2010-04-12T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23342 wcc rates government media Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23342 Wellington Scoop 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23177 wcc liquorban sanctuary government issues conservation media Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23177 Wellington Scoop 2010-03-31T00:00:00Z -41.2917079 174.7521904 Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22784 Ratepayers have reason to want more information about the $30million in overdue payments which was owing to the Wellington City Council at the end of its last financial year. wcc rates government media Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22784 Wellington Scoop 2010-03-22T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22684 When the Wellington City Council’s audit and risk subcommittee met behind closed doors yesterday afternoon, the last item on its agenda was a report giving details about people who owe money to the council. Ratepayers, one presumes. wcc government media Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22684 Wellington Scoop 2010-03-20T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22555 The Wellington City Council has issued another agenda with a list of topics which it intends to discuss behind closed doors. At a meeting of the council’s audit and risk subcommittee on Friday afternoon, the public will be sent out of the room before five presumably contentious issues are dealt with. wcc government media Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22555 Wellington Scoop 2010-03-18T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=21666 The Wellington City Council is having a secret meeting this morning. Here’s the agenda for the meeting, which was announced only three days ago: Apologies, Public Participation, Announcements by the Mayor, Petitions, Conflict of Interest Declarations, Questions. wcc government media Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=21666 Wellington Scoop 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=21597 Although the proposal for a 27 acre (11.2 hectare) car storage and distribution facility for 2,500 vehicles in Grenada Village has been rejected by the Greater Wellington Regional Council on environmental grounds, the granting of a Land Use Consent by Wellington City Council needs to come under public scrutiny. johnsonville wcc places government media Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=21597 Wellington Scoop 2010-03-02T00:00:00Z