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Money! Funding crisis! Household budget crunch! Welcome to Long Term Plan season
Local councillors across the country are grappling with their council’s 10-year budget, AKA Long Term Plan. It’s a fiscally grim outlook for households, councils and central government alike so the perfect time to get some perspective!
Read MoreWellington’s Future Development Strategy: your submission guide (quick!)
Our region’s Future Development Strategy will say what big, important stuff goes where, setting the course for our towns and cities for decades. A Talk Wellington reader lays out why it matters, and how to submit – ASAP!
Read MoreCity future-making: get amongst it this Thursday!
Another great local thing to light up your post-election world
Read MoreCity space: for some, for all, for a while: great event this Tuesday
LettingSpace was an extraordinary phenomenon and there’s now a book about it. So first: enjoy learning about LettingSpace, and then: go to the book launch!
Read MoreTeeny local businesses… and what we need to make them ubiquitous again
Little hyper-local neighbourhood businesses are great for 1,000 reasons, but they’ve been killed off by zoming rules and big-box shopping. So how do we let them come back?
Read MoreQ: Is your city any good? A: Depends how green it is
“Why are you moving to That City?” “Well, a few reasons …but mostly it’s just greener than all the others we were considering”
Read MoreGot a bad street? Good news: it’s now easier to reshape it!
As of today it’s finally way easier to try out retrofits to our bad streets – you know, the ones that make it generally yuk to do anything except be in a car. Get onto your local council – they’ve now got all the tools!
Read MoreParking and Profit: sensible swaps for smart cities
We’ve all heard about the pandemic hurting hospitality businesses, especially those in city centres. Those temporary street parking for dining space swaps – parklets – have thown up some surprises
Read MoreYour handy submission guide: LGWM City Streets proposals
LGWM has 4 surveys open for feedback on city streets changes they’ll make soon! This is good stuff that should’ve been done years ago, so take a couple of mins to whack in your feedback by midnight TUESDAY 23!
Read MorePublic spaces today: familiar, but definitely not “neutral”
Public buildings illuminated with the trans flag colours, reinstatement of Māori place names, and rainbow pedestrian crossings have some people arguing this is “politicising” public space. But New Zealand public spaces have never been neutral – far from it.
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