Category: titirangi
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WRLB – Chair’s report November 2024
Launch of Te Kakau Sunvue Park has a new name gifted by Te Kawarau ā Maki. Its new name is Te Kakau. It refers to the star known as Regulus which is the brightest star in the Leo constellation. The park is in the centre of the Zodiac Constellation in Glen Eden and a reference…
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Chair’s report October 2024 – Submission on Crown Minerals Bill
Submission on Crown Minerals Amendment Bill The local board has for a long time taken an interest in the Block Offer process for permits for exploration and drilling offshore for oil and gas. We have consistently opposed the granting of any permits in the local area. The reasons for our opposition are that the area…
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What to do if your land has a slip
I went to Paturoa yesterday morning on a quiet and still day and took this photo. It was serene, but the cliffs bore the scars of some significant slips, parts of the foreshore was washed away and there is still a car deposited on the edge of the cliff as a reminder of the fury…
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Is it too early to talk about climate change?
Cyclone Gabrielle is currently bearing down on Tamaki Makaurau. Locals are nervous. In my home suburb Titirangi a recent storm that fell well outside the definition of a one in one hundred year storm has caused multiple slips and scarring to the local landscape. Some people still do not have power and water is limited. …
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WRLB end of term report 2022 – Three years of living strangely
My review of the past three years on the Waitakere Ranges Local Board. It has been a term like no other with the effects of a global pandemic profound. Despite this we advanced much of what we wanted to do although TItirangi’s chickens are still a problem …