NOTICE OF SUBMISSION ON PROPOSED PLAN CHANGE 78 AUCKLAND UNITARY PLAN TO: Planning Technician, Auckland Council Email: unitaryplan@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz SUBMITTER DETAILS FULL NAME ST MARYS BAY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED (“the Association”) ADDRESS OF SUBMITTER TELEPHONE 09 3765414 or 021 902 744 EMAIL brian@metroplanning.co.nz SCOPE OF SUBMISSION This is a submission opposing Proposed Plan Change 78 as it Read More
Save St Mary’s Bay from Council’s intensification plans Lodge your submission by Sept 29 Contribute to the Fighting Fund Talk to your neighbours Join St Mary’s Bay Association Residents Update and Submission Guidelines On Thursday 8th September the St Mary’s Bay Association (SMBA) held a residents meeting at the Richmond Yacht Club at Westhaven, attended Read More
…..Not much it would seem On Tuesday 19 April Auckland Council pulled back the covers on a preliminary proposal for amending Auckland’s Unitary Plan, to meet the government’s plans for housing intensification. The proposal amounts to a garroting of years of city planning and citizen participation, particularly the preservation of the character of our older Read More
Following the completion of a seismic assessment, which found structural issues that make the buildings unsafe, the Leys Institute was closed by Auckland Council abruptly on 20 December 2019. On 26 February 2020 more than 150 banner-carrying protesters gathered outside the Leys Institute and called on Waitemata Local Board chair Richard Northey to champion the Read More
In 2018 Auckland Council (Healthy Waters) was granted a resource consent to build a large drainage tunnel through the foot of St Mary’s Bay as part of a project to prevent sewage spills from a single and ancient pipe which regularly overflowed after even moderately heavy rainfall. The SMBA and others appealed that consent. The Read More
A project, formerly known as SkyPath, for walking and cycling over the harbour bridge has been taken over by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) and greatly extended. Now officially referred to as the Northern Pathway, it will run between Albany and central Auckland. The closest section of the pathway to St Marys Bay, from Read More
Northern Pathway – ‘Have your say’ – by 19 April Water quality projects – recap and update Leys Institute – make your view known Unitary plan change 26 Submission on CCOs Wynyard Quarter/the America’s Cup – What’s going on Dear members, What a different Easter this is. The SMBA committee hopes that you and yours Read More
This is an urgent message to everyone who wants our Leys Institute building returned to us as a local library and community hall, after appropriate seismic upgrading. Co-ordinator of Friends of the Leys Institute, Helen Geary, sent the message below to all members of this newly formed group, urging them to fill in an online Read More
Submission to New Zealand Transport Agency on Northern Pathway Background 1. The Saint Mary’s Bay Association Inc. (SMBA) is an incorporated society. As the name implies, its 100 plus members are residents of the St Mary’s Bay area (bounded by Beaumont Street, College Hill, Jervois Road, the eastern side of Curran Street, and the harbour Read More
The St Mary’s Bay Association was one of 21 community organisations in the Stop Auckland Sewage Overflows Coalition (SASOC) which submitted to Auckland Council on its review of Council Controlled Organisations. A key point underlying the submission is that the Auckland Council family must be more responsiveness to community concerns. In SASOC’s experience, historically Watercare’s Read More