6 days ago · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

6 days ago · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

Nov 27, 2024 · Submission by Architectural Centre The Architectural Centre strongly opposes what appears to be the driving premise of the Wellington City Council’s proposed Te Ngākau Development Plan – namely that the original concept of the Civic Precinct as a carefully composed and choreographed composition of connecting urban elements and related public buildings centred on the amphitheatre-like ...

Enos Pegler, Studio group, S. Marks, E. Kitchen, N. McLeod, M. Adams, Mr Pegler, Onehunga, 1894–1901, gelatin silver print (148 × 200 mm) Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, PH-1995-15-8 News from Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery launches its summer season with A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa.This exhibition traces the history of photography in ...

20 hours ago · The Wellington City Council’s crown observer is surprised the organisation “hasn’t totally wilted under the pressure” of long-term plan changes. In October, former local government minister Simeon Brown decided to appoint a crown observer after the council chose to rewrite its long term plan ...

Dec 24, 2024 · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

3 days ago · As the business of the Wellington City Council kicks off for 2025, I had been planning to write another piece on the state and decisions ahead of us on water. With the Mayor’s recent op-ed on the topic, it provides good context to dive in …

Jan 18, 2025 · After a “gruelling year” for many businesses in the capital, owners who have survived till 2025 are hopeful the worst is behind them. A common theme among Wellington business owners spoken to by RNZ was that 2024 was tough – with very few exceptions. Many people were unaware of just how tough ...

Jan 9, 2025 · Thanks Nemo, that was a nice walk down memory lane. I think you are correct about what Prime will do in the meantime – keep the car park but hopefully ensure there is a walkway from Courtenay Place through to Te Papa and the waterfront which is where I believe Wellington’s major social attractions should happen including the refurbished band rotunda.

Jan 12, 2025 · The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs. the proposed “attempt” to get it down to below 12.8% (neither acceptable levels in my opinion) was ...