This is the final LTP, after considerable submissions against the runway extension have been heard and received. Some major caveats have been added to the ring-fenced $90m for the runway extension: The LTP now says that the Council will make a final decision on this project and whether to commit funding to construction once: WIALContinueContinue reading “WCC Final Long Term Plan”
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Long Term Plan Optimism Bias, more Propaganda, and another Consultation Shambles
The Council isn’t known for its accuracy with figures. They are a bit of a movable feast, as is time, and other elements. So when the Mayor sent out a press release yesterday on the statistics around the Long Term Plan (LTP) and how awesome it has been, with actual statistics, I thought “doesn’t lookContinueContinue reading “Long Term Plan Optimism Bias, more Propaganda, and another Consultation Shambles”
Keeping the Council and the Airport honest, or will Tangaroa have the last word anyway?
Over the last couple of months two important developments occurred regarding the proposed Wellington Airport Runway Extension: Its $90m co-funding by Council found its way into the LTP – despite significant opposition against it, but with some very important caveats Nature has shown us on several occasions just how insane the proposal is to putContinueContinue reading “Keeping the Council and the Airport honest, or will Tangaroa have the last word anyway?”
Keith Johnson: Lavery and Wade-Brown Toggle the Joystick
An excellent blog from Keith Johnson in which holes are found in assumptions around rates rises. I too had much difficulty in finding out what the actual rate rises were going to be. Of the handful of Councillors I polled only one could definitively explain it to me, two were “pretty sure” it was slightlyContinueContinue reading “Keith Johnson: Lavery and Wade-Brown Toggle the Joystick”
Helene Ritchie: Runaway rates for vanity projects (Opinion)
“Wellington City Council’s rates hike at 6.1% is too high. Priorities are skewed in the wrong direction towards vanity projects for political expediency, and disproportionate “growth-economic” funds and projects. The result: cuts and deliberately delayed spending on essential infrastructure eg. to prevent flooding around the Basin Reserve and Medical Centre) or to strengthen the Capital’sContinueContinue reading “Helene Ritchie: Runaway rates for vanity projects (Opinion)”
Salient: VUWSA and Uni weigh in on Council’s plans
VUWSA and the University have made submissions to the Wellington City Council’s recently drafted Long Term Plan for 2015 to 2025. The Long Term Plan looks at the current and future needs of Wellingtonians and sets out how the Council plans to improve the city and what it will spend. VUWSA’s submission pointed out thatContinueContinue reading “Salient: VUWSA and Uni weigh in on Council’s plans”
Dominion Post LTP report-back
In the third day of hearings into Wellington City Council’s draft Long-Term Plan on Thursday, Cricket New Zealand chief executive David White said lights were a necessity to be able to target overseas audiences. The Basin Reserve Trust and Cricket Wellington are supporting a $20 million masterplan that would upgrade the historic ground, including knockingContinueContinue reading “Dominion Post LTP report-back”
Wellington Airport extension increasingly coming undone: Fool’s Gold
With the long term plan submission underway this week, the oral ones, we start to see the airport extension starting to increasingly come undone. The consultation to date has been, in my opinion, a sham, typical of the arrogance of the uninformed and money men (and women) who try to sell us this snake oil.ContinueContinue reading “Wellington Airport extension increasingly coming undone: Fool’s Gold”
Airport Extension: Looking like a white elephant and yet another consultation failure brewing
In the latest blow to the Wellington Extension idea the Board of Airline Representatives (BRANZ), representing twenty airlines, are sending some mixed messages about whether airlines will fly here if the extension goes ahead. Radio NZ reports BRANZ as stating that there is no intention by any airline to fly into Wellington if the extensionContinueContinue reading “Airport Extension: Looking like a white elephant and yet another consultation failure brewing”
That Wellington airport extension: Would you invest in it?
Wellingtonians are a funny bunch. We hate change yet we want change. We are prepared to lampoon anyone who either promotes a change, or, anyone who is perceived to be slowing change down. Case in point. A massive negative reaction to a new, I thought clever, design for the airport control tower. Can’t have thatContinueContinue reading “That Wellington airport extension: Would you invest in it?”
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