Month: October 2012

By Greg Presland Atkinson Road has been in the news this year.  After learning that it had the ninth busiest speed cameras in the country local resident Jennifer Conlon decided that something had to be done.  The street is remarkable in that it is home for two primary schools and a pre school and a…

By Greg Presland This is the description that Leighton Smith gave the Waitakere Ranges Local Board for its decision to try and preserve Piha’s Pohutukawa tree.  But he misses the point. To recap, in an extraordinarily short time and without giving any notice to local residents Auckland Council managed to obtain a resource consent to cut a…