It is not hard to get approval to demolish a pre-1944 house. All you need to do is to show that it is not worthy of scheduling - not a speicial example of its type and no-one important lived there. It protects the realy good stuff but not run of the mill ...
All I know is that where I work in Auckland if people with those sort of names were not doing small scale subdivisions and/or building enormous houses, I - and a whole bunch of my fellow workers would not have a job.
I have read the Commissioners' decision and the Planner's report and I can see how both reached the conclusions they did. The Commissioners took the Ports of Auckland decision into account. I have a suspicion that if it was about an apartment building or ...
I advise people looking to buy in Aucklnd not to waste time bidding on anything subdividable. Find out the minimum Lot size and don't bother with anything twice that size. Heaps of developers - not all Chinese, but lots of them are, buy the site, move or ...
It is not just the buyer who is Chinese in many cases. The $$$ is from China, the real estate agent is from China, the Planner who puts the subdivision and the new houses applications together is from China, the builders are from China, and lots of the ...
This is what The Herald has sunk to. A mindless girl-child who probably cannot even spell empathy. Employed to write trivia about who went to what party and who wore what frock. Probably on the strength of the fact that her parents made some of those ...
It is difficult - I will sell my house when I retire and buy something smaller. The problem is that we have built monomorphic suburbs so if you live in St Heliers or Sandringam your choices of something to replace your big house are quite limited. My ...
Unfortunately the Council's communications team could not communicate to Polly the Parrot. They seem to think the The Herald is there to print Council's press releases. It is not - it is there to print Cameron Brewer's press releases and anything from ...
A double decker Richies bus whipped past me on the northern approaches to the harbour bridge on Friday evening.
And their spelling.
I had a lot of fun winding up some kid at work who was rambling on about "the Left do it too" and how "that Presland guy who blogs as Mickysavage" works for the Labour Party. I asked if his gullibility and his inability to use Google inhibited his ability ...
Tamaki is an amateur - Google "Creflo Dollar" to see how a true professional works. He is pursuading his "flock" to give him $60 million US to buy a private jet. The Gays are an easy target for these Bible bashing hate merchants. They are not picketing ...
I recall when one well known NZ artist was asked to comment on her work he said something about how artists should not be asked about that sort of material.
Can we please get some better trolls around here? The ones we have are getting far too predictable and boring.
You must have been on some of the same anti-Vietnam war marches I was on. I remember going past the RSA and seeing a bunch of greasy haired old boozers with a ciggie in one hand and a beer in the other shouting at us to get a haircut or get a job, calling ...
I don't think so. They died because we were dragged into a war because of a complicated system of alliances between Queen Victoria's relatives meant that when a Serbian nationalist shot an Austrian Prince, a lot of strutting and posturing and "my cannon is...
I am pleased to see that somebody has worked out that is not the house that has "earned" the $1000 per week. The house is worth bugger all, in fact it is a liability as someone will have to pay for its demolition or removal. The value is in the land, and ...
Penny Bright has had 7 years of "investigation" and turned up a big fat Zero.
Yes, and we will remember about strategic voting in the next Auckland Mayoralty race where we will understand that a vote for Penny Bright is a vote for whatever flunky the right put up.
Knitting - also known as "Scottish Valium". Relaxing and cheap.
The Royal Commission's recommendations were dropped in the bin by the NACT government and the one in Rodney Hide's top drawer was substituted. The Auckland Council of today is unrecognisable from the models of the Royal Commission.
Seeing that The Herald was not interested in printing anything that Council put out about the tree - here are a few basic facts. Two resource consents were granted by Independent Commissioners for the construction of two houses on adjoining sites in ...
Wasn't that wonderful for everybody. As a bright 16yr old I was told by my High School career's advisor in 1966 that I should go to secretarial college as I would make somebody a wonderful secretary. I said that I thought I would make a better "somebody" ...
So here is the answer - picture in my Facebook feed today of David Cunliffe at the tree. Also our own Micky Savage and several other Labour activists there on the ground.
A Judicial Revue may say that the process involved in the notification decision was faulty and Council may take the hint and make a different notification decision. Happened in regard to a dwelling in Piha a year or so ago.
That section deals with reviews of Conditions of Consent. Usually for stuff like discharges or water takes where there is an on-going effect which may change with time. The ability to review is usually a part of the consent. Sometimes used for traffic ...
You can take an application for a Judicial Revue of the notification decision to the High Cout if you have lots of $$$$. However, that just looks at the process and does not revoke the consent. The best that happen there is that the matter is sent back to ...
Yes. 7 years bludging off the ratepayers and not a single corruption case uncovered. Then she turns up round here and tries to tell Labour people how to run a campaign. "Do as I say" she cries. We will remember this next time she stands for the Mayoralty.
I am not sure that there is anything "proven" at all about the anti-corruption claims. After 7 years full time work on this Penny Bright, how much proven corruption have you actually found?
So, Penny Bright, in the next Auckland mayoralty election, when it is a close call between the forces of the "left" and the forces of the "right" you won't be standing? You would not want to take votes away from the person best placed to defeat Cam Brewer ...
And I hate to think what sort of shoddy crap the Govt supplied whiteware is. My friend in a HNZ place was supplied with a heater/fan arrangement when HNZ responded to her request to fix the drafty chimney. They blocked the chimney and installed an electric...
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