5 days ago · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

5 days ago · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

Nov 27, 2024 · Submission by Architectural Centre The Architectural Centre strongly opposes what appears to be the driving premise of the Wellington City Council’s proposed Te Ngākau Development Plan – namely that the original concept of the Civic Precinct as a carefully composed and choreographed composition of connecting urban elements and related public buildings centred on the amphitheatre-like ...

Enos Pegler, Studio group, S. Marks, E. Kitchen, N. McLeod, M. Adams, Mr Pegler, Onehunga, 1894–1901, gelatin silver print (148 × 200 mm) Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, PH-1995-15-8 News from Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery launches its summer season with A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa.This exhibition traces the history of photography in ...

Jan 9, 2025 · Thanks Nemo, that was a nice walk down memory lane. I think you are correct about what Prime will do in the meantime – keep the car park but hopefully ensure there is a walkway from Courtenay Place through to Te Papa and the waterfront which is where I believe Wellington’s major social attractions should happen including the refurbished band rotunda.

by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

Dec 23, 2024 · Report from RNZ by Nick James This time last year the Wellington region was in a seriously risky situation. This year things are different. This time last year, Wellington Water were warning the Hutt Valley, Porirua, and Wellington City that there was a …

Jan 12, 2025 · The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs. the proposed “attempt” to get it down to below 12.8% (neither acceptable levels in my opinion) was ...

Sep 11, 2024 · The failure of the Wellington City Council lies in limiting its transportation and urban planning to serve only the city center and nearby suburbs, without fully recognizing that Wellington’s prosperity comes from its role in serving the southern part of the North Island, as well as being a key connection point between the North and South Islands.

Oct 29, 2024 · Report from RNZ The chair of a Wellington City Council committee had a warning for councillors today at a meeting of the Long-Term Plan, Finance, And Performance Committee, just days after Local Government Minister Simeon Brown announced his intention to appoint a Crown Observer at the Council, which has to cut its budget and amend its long-term plan (LTP) after it voted to stop the sale of ...