On 2 November 2022 GOTB Chairperson Yvonne Weeber attended a Wellington Airport workshop on the Urban Design Principles for the Terminal Precinct, the Landscape and Visual Management Plan for the East Side Area (currently in preparation), and the Broadway Precinct Integrated Design Management Plan (to be prepared in the future). Wellington Airport is wanting feedbackContinueContinue reading “Wellington Airport – Urban Design Principles Update”
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Wellington Airport Seawall Renewal
Wellington Airport’s is consulting the community on the renewal of the southern and Lyall Bay seawalls and breakwater. The airport has been talking about this for ages. We are now able to tell them we don’t want an airport extension, the seawall renewal needs to keep within the boundaries they already have and climate adaptationContinueContinue reading “Wellington Airport Seawall Renewal”
WLG Community and Environment Fund
It’s time to get your community and environment applications into the WLG Community and Environment Fund. Our hard work on the airport designations back in 2022 is why this fund has happened.. This fund was created due to Environment Court mediation between Wellington Airport, Guardians of the Bays, Strathmore Park Resident’s Association, and other community members.ContinueContinue reading “WLG Community and Environment Fund”
Guardians Submission on the Proposed District Plan
The Guardians of the Bays has submitted on the Wellington City Proposed District Plan. Our submission focused on the Noise and the Airport Zone. Guardians Introduction to Submission Proposed District Plan Guardians Proposed District Plan Submission Table
Our submission on the Civil Aviation Bill
On the 17th of February, we made an oral submission to the Infrastructure and Transport Committee, following our written submission. Watch the video here: Alternatively, you can read the full transcript of our submission here: Guardians of the Bays is an incorporated society representing 400 concerned residents opposing any increase in airport activity until its adverseContinueContinue reading “Our submission on the Civil Aviation Bill”
WIAL’s decision to proceed
Guardians of the Bays are considering their options after hearing that Wellington International Airport (WIAL) have today accepted the Notice of Requirement (NOR) and airport expansion on the Eastern Side of the Airport into the Miramar Golf Course. The hearing of WIALs NOR expansion plans faced a large number of objections and criticism from theContinueContinue reading “WIAL’s decision to proceed”
RE-BLOG: Last to Zero?
In August last year, the Wellington City Council declared a climate emergency, and released a blueprint outlining intentions and objectives to make the city carbon neutral by 2050. With a 30 year horizon, it was hard to get past the irony of the program name “Te Atakura, First to Zero.” Hopefully, by then, Wellington willContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG: Last to Zero?”
DOMINION POST: Wellington Airport runway extension plan staying on hold for six more months
By Tom Hunt and Thomas Manch, January 8, 2019 Sea Rotmann has six more months of uncertainty after a decision allowing Wellington Airport long-lingering runway extension application to remain on hold until May. Further down Rotmann’s seaside road, it is six more months of sleepless nights and “wondering what the hell is going to happen” for MartynContinueContinue reading “DOMINION POST: Wellington Airport runway extension plan staying on hold for six more months”
NEWS Radio NZ: ‘Deja vu’ for Wellington Airport extension
[Ed: note that some typos and mistakes have been corrected and explanatory commentary has been inserted, where relevant] There will be no satisfactory outcome when a final decision on the Wellington Airport extension resource consent is released, an Environment Court judge has said. Wellington Airport Photo: Supplied At a judicial conference in the Environment Court, Judge BrianContinueContinue reading “NEWS Radio NZ: ‘Deja vu’ for Wellington Airport extension”
MEDIA RELEASE: Wellington International Airport should do the right thing and pull plans to extend runway
Media Release by the Guardians of the Bays An announcement that hearings for Wellington Airport’s runway extension could be potentially delayed till late 2019 should be a final nail in the coffin for the Airport’s proposal, according to community and ratepayer groups concerned about the mounting costs to Wellingtonians. Guardians of the Bays, representing almostContinueContinue reading “MEDIA RELEASE: Wellington International Airport should do the right thing and pull plans to extend runway”
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