Results
The following posts are filed under: Utilities & Infrastructure.
Water: a chance to get our basics right! Your submission guide
The stream in your neighbourhood, the river we drink, the water at the beach – Kāpiti, Porirua, Hutt, Wairarapa, Wellington: how clean is clean enough? How dirty is too dirty? Submissions close 15th!
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 MoreTaxes, rates, value and land: Common Ground Aotearoa
Rates, taxes and whatnots: are there better options than New Zealand’s current system of getting money to fund public services like pipes? Post from Common Ground Aotearoa, nerdy advocates for a better way
Read MoreRainy day watching and listening fun
Some great city-building watching and listening we’ve been enjoying…
Read MorePublic health & low carbon transport: what parties said
While the relationship between these might seem obvious to readers of Talk Wellington, public health researchers thought they’d ask political parties about this directly, and see what they said. The results are…
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 MoreLet’s be less rubbish about waste – have your say pronto!
This one almost got away on us: the Wellington Regional Waste Management and Minimisation Plan needs your shove – closing Friday 5pm!
Read MoreBetter train-ing for Te Upoko o te Ika? Tune in!
Wellington’s metropolitan (suburban) rail upgrade has been a long time coming, and a long time in the delivering. Tune in to a livestream Thursday 31st August to hear more.
Read MoreThree housing things
Fixing our housing crisis: it’s a hot topic and it’ll be one of our election deciders… but it’s also really easy to misunderstand. Here are three useful things about housing to add to your brain food this week
Read MoreLet’s Get Wellington Moving: please, councillors, keep your eyes on the prize
A bunch of WCC councillors are poised to throw not just the proverbial baby, but our whole reproductive system out with the bathwater. Sounds stupid? It is. Yet here we are, so please help keep their eyes on the prize by writing in TODAY!
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