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Chair’s report June 2018 – Water quality, Ranges protection and Christine Rose
The Big Blue Report and Water quality The Waitakere Ranges Local Board has commissioned a report into water quality in the Manukau Harbour and the West Coast. The report, titled Big Blue Waitakere, has now been released for public comment. To be frank our local water quality is appalling. This local board area has half…
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The man behind the Glen Eden apartments
The ten storey Glen Eden apartments are now being constructed. Within a year or so the area will have 160 new residences, many of them social housing. The man behind the project is Ted Manson and refreshingly he is doing this for philantrophic reasons. The Herald last week ran an article where he was interviewed.…
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The Waitakere Ranges rāhui
Today with the rest of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board I attended the meeting of the Environment and Committee committee of Auckland Council to talk about proposals to deal with Kauri dieback. Following our presentation the Council voted by majority to support option four. There were a number of other resolutions passed some of which…
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ACT wants to subdivide the Waitakere Ranges (or at least the foothills)
There was a great deal of attention on the policy announcements of the major parties this weekend. One announcement was forward looking and a firm statement that business as usual was not working. The other was somewhat ho hum and involved an extension to Auckland’s electrified rail network that Labour started as well as the…
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Nuclear Free peacemaking policy over 35 years
I was asked to speak last week at the West Auckland Peace Group’s meeting to celebrate 30 years of our nuclear free legislation organised by the legendary Laurie Ross. The event started with the quality music of Heartstrings and then Laurie and I both spoke to a small but very informed crowd. It gave me…