3 units sell at Ray White auction – A productive forward-looking day at the council – Restaurant Brands lifts quarterly sales 14.7% – Stories online – building completions, hearing panel change
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Council documents series of unitary plan mediation positions
Auckland Council’s unitary plan committee has publicly documented positions it has taken in mediation on 5 topics at independent hearings panel sessions on its proposed unitary plan.
Read more →Water monitor adds beaches to weekly checks
Information on the water quality of 350 beaches has been made accessible online through an initiative between regional councils, the Cawthron Institute, the Ministry for the Environment, Massey University’s research-led design studio Open Lab and the Tindall Foundation.
Read more →Tsunami evacuation maps for Auckland completed
Auckland now has its first set of comprehensive tsunami evacuation maps for the entire region’s coastline.
Read more →Housing areas, unitary plan commissioners & offshore oil on council agenda
Auckland Council’s governing body will discuss the second tranche of special housing areas and the recommended candidates for the unitary plan hearings panel when it meets on Thursday, but behind closed doors.
Read more →New Chums Beach protection framework proposed
Published 20 December 2010 Environmental Defence Society chairman Gary Taylor said on Friday a framework proposed by the society & the owners of land at New Chums Beach (Wainuiototo) on the Coromandel could protect the beach forever. The framework would create a significant public reserve on the land adjoining the beach, which includes a regenerating […]
Read more →Regional council buys one more park
Published 29 September 2010 The Auckland Regional Council announced the $15 million purchase of its final regional park, Te Muri, on Monday. It’s next to the first regional park, bought at Wenderholm in 1965. The 407ha block at Te Muri on the Mahurangi coast has a boundary on the northern side of the Puhoi River. […]
Read more →Peart combines history & campaign future in Castles in the sand
Published 9 August 2009 The Environmental Defence Society campaigns for controls on coastal development, and now its senior policy analyst, Raewyn Peart, has turned the campaign into a highly readable book on New Zealanders’ beachgoing heritage, Castles in the sand. It’s a book that can be read for its history, containing numerous photographs of […]
Read more →ARC proposal will send marine farmers out to sea
Published 14 April 2008 The Auckland Regional Council has approved preliminary consultation to start on draft principles, directions & concepts for a regional marine farming policy framework, and indicative excluded areas. The council map of indicative excluded areas covers the whole of the region’s coastline – halfway up the Kaipara Harbour, around Waiheke & […]
Read more →Coastal policy statement review open to submissions
Published 10 March 2008 The submission period has opened on the proposed New Zealand coastal policy statement. Submissions close on Wednesday 7 May. The Minister of Conservation has appointed a board of inquiry headed by Alternative Environment Court Judge Shonagh Kenderdine to inquire into the proposal. Website: Coastal policy statement review Submissions: [email protected].nz […]
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