Monday, 18 January 2021, 5:08 pm
Te
Kainga apartment.
Wellington City
Council is seeking interest from potential tenants for the
first apartments in the Te Kāinga programme.
“The
apartments are part of Wellington City Council’s Te
Kāinga programme to provide quality, secure, affordable and
long-term rental accommodation in Wellington,” says Mayor
Andy Foster.
“As a Council we are working on a
spatial plan to increase the supply of affordable housing in
Wellington. The Te Kāinga programme partnership with the
private sector to deliver affordable rental accommodation is
a first for New Zealand.
“To have our
first tangible example of these efforts is extremely
Dyer said the problem was that too many people were choosing to take their cars to the beach as opposed to a lack of room for people to park. He posted the video on Twitter, where he dubbed the situation “#dorkParking”.
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A line of cars on the pavement at Wellington s Princess Bay. Wellington City Council spokesman Richard MacLean said wardens hadn’t been ticketing in Princess Bay recently but the council was aware of the issue and would be sending wardens out if Wellington got another sunny day and the bad parking returned. “We will go back with the ticket books.”
How Wellington became the poster child for NZ s water infrastructure crisis
7 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Wellington issues reporter, NZ Heraldgeorgina.campbell@nzme.co.nz
Wellington s forgotten infrastructure has come home to roost in the form of broken pipes, sludge trucks, sewage in the streets, and a public outcry. In January 2020 Wellington s mayor was comfortable with the amount of money being spent on water infrastructure and described the timing of two catastrophic pipe failures as appallingly bad luck .
A year later it is clear the state of the city s horizontal infrastructure has nothing to do with luck and is instead the victim of decades of underinvestment, three of which Mayor Andy Foster has been on council for.
Work is underway for the installation of a CCTV camera and more lighting at Te Aro Park.
More lighting and a security camera are being installed in Wellington s Te Aro Park, part of an effort an attempt to curb crime and anti-social behaviour in the small slice of the central city. The Wellington City Council is also removing the canopy from the toilet block and has instituted a new cleaning regime and appointed a caretaker. Mayor Andy Foster said the Night-time Economic Forum, recently re-established to address after-dark problems, played a large part in addressing the issues at the park.