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Draft master plan and the mother of master plans
New regional governance arrangements will likely see Watercare Services responsible for Mahurangi sewerage. Understandably, Rodney District Council’s infrastructure planners are keen to consolidate their work prior to when, in all probability, they will report to new...
First workshop focuses on the how and the who
The first was always going to be the most fraught. This in spite of the objective of the workshops being very simple: To put the plan in the Mahurangi Action Plan, collaboratively. The plan itself is straightforward, if the premise is accepted that it should...
Mahurangi Action’s last glossy gasp
It’s always a challenge, to make a submission stand out. Particularly when committee members are facing the last batch of submitters for the week, on the Auckland governance legislation. Late of a Friday afternoon, they could be excused if their minds were beginning...
Putting the plan in the Mahurangi Action Plan: Planting and planning
Planting 17 and 18 July 1pm–3pm, food and arts activities 3pm–4pm Location 17 Edwards Road, via Hepburn Creek Road Planning 20 July 5.30pm for 6pm–8pm Venue Old Masonic Hall, Baxter Street, Warkworth When the Mahurangi Action Plan was initiated, in 2004, it wasn’t so...
Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill Submission 930
As lodged today General Mahurangi Action embraces this historic opportunity to devise better governance arrangements for the Auckland region. The organisation was formed in 1974, for the enjoyment and protection of the Mahurangi catchment; in 1977 it revived the...
Vote yes and no
Auckland governance legislation select committee submissions closed Friday 26 June By this time next year, there will be a Mahurangi plan. Mahurangi Action founding chairman John Male made the first bid for a Mahurangi plan in 1975, pitched at the old Rodney County...
Dr David Bergin, Forester of the Year
Unintentionally, it had bordered on false advertising. To offer to prospective planters the prospect of discussing their interest in indigenous plants with one of Aotearoa’s most interesting tree scientists, Dr David Bergin. However, the volunteer…
Mahurangi Regatta anniversary weekend 2060
t presumably was not the sentiment Rod Oram had intended to invoke in his audience:
“This is all quite depressing!” Oram had begun his Urban Design and Auckland Governance talk by quoting an undisclosed inside source claiming…