Submissions on Palmerston North City Council s 10-Year Plan close May 14
11 May, 2021 07:05 AM
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Palmerston North s newest subdivision, Tamakuku Terrace in Kelvin Grove. Photo / Judith Lacy
Judith Lacy is editor of the Manawatū Guardian
In the second of two articles on the Palmerston North City Council s proposed 10-Year Plan, Judith Lacy looks at goals 3, 4 and 5.
If your diary is starting to look a little lighter during these autumnal days, Palmerston North City Council feels your pain.
In its proposed 10-Year Plan, the council says it wants more events held from April to September and wants to collaborate with event organisers to achieve this. The city has an extensive and diverse events programme but many events are centralised over the warmer months.
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Good news (finally): the bonnie braes and craggy coastlines of Scotland are back on the agenda for English travellers and we couldn’t be more thrilled. The country is consistently voted one of the most beautiful in the world and for goodreason. With dramatic landscape to rival that of New Zealand, swathes of unspoilt wilderness, abundant wildlife and, of course, haggis and the finest single malts it pretty much covers all bases for a well-needed escape from the city.
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Glasgow is haunted by itself. Unlike Edinburgh, whose every steeple and gable makes the past feel part of the present, Glasgow is its own ghost.
In this city, which looks much more new than the capital, history is glimpsed from the corner of the eye; it is a shiver on a late-autumn night as darkness falls on Duke Street and the brewery smell fills the air. Glaswegians are chronic nostalgists. We have a pretty straightforward relationship with the past: we just want to live there.
All of which is why I am standing in the Necropolis, the cityâs great Victorian cemetery, holding a tourist guide from between the wars. The Ward, Lock & Co guide to Glasgow, the Clyde and Robert Burns country â âwith appendices for anglers, golfers and motoristsâ â is a little red book, published in 1930, with fold-out maps and quaint adverts: âElectric light throughout,â tempts one of the grander hotels. âHot and cold wate