Results
The following posts are filed under: porirua.
The RLTP’s Top 30 transport projects – more detail than you may need
This is the companion post to the main RLTP submission guide post. Here you can swim around in the detail – without going way deep – because we’ve packaged up several documents’ and tables’ material for your convenience. You can also view all of the 30 proposed projects on an interactive map handily prepared by the…
Read MorePorirua City’s Long Term Plan: submission guide!
LTPs are always pretty important but the 2024-24 one is extra so. Make sure your submission’s in by 5pm Friday 26th April – as little as 10 minutes with this post by Porirua resident (and TW convenor) Isabella
Read MoreLocally-driven civics: talanoa-wānanga and citizens’ assembly on climate change
Another of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world
Read More“You gotta hand it to ’em” – but not your vote
Talk Wellington admires skill in any job, including local body politicians. Which is why it’s good to use scorecards but also use less game-able, more revealing insights into those who would run our cities
Read MoreNew roads, new modelling, old questions
As Stuff reports on new traffic modelling for Wellington, we’re keen to understand more (well, anything really). And look: a fun interactive for you!
Read MoreIs an ‘Eco-City’ Viable? Why, yes! Part three.
In this third and final instalment, guest poster Brendon Harre asks: is an Eco-City planned for northern Wellington, politically and economically viable?
Read MoreFix the housing crisis: take the power local and let’s get dense!
Porirua’s Growth Strategy is out for public feedback. Guest poster Tam Holsen finds it detail-rich on greenfield housing development but undercooked on densification or intensification, and wonders if her city is missing a trick
Read MoreRevitalisation in Porirua: people, land, and movement
The much-anticipated announcement came this week: a significant investment by government will refurbish and revitalise the extensive state housing areas in Porirua. We’re hoping those in charge will bring the kind of progressive mindset that’s historically driven Porirua’s better places to live.
Read MoreOpportunity: down the drain?
Stebbings Valley, apparently the last greenfields development in Wellington City, is a big deal. Until 3rd September we’ve a chance to say we want it to be an asset, not a liability, and a really big reason why is WATER.
Read MorePlimmerton Farm – Glimmer of Hope or Grimmer and Nope?
A new suburb! Hawoo! Surely that will ease the housing woes and we’ll have enough for everyone, there’ll be no concerns about extra cars on the road, everything will be beautiful, lovely, wonderful, hunky-flippin’-dory. Or not.
Read More
