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Awesome Environment Court Decision on South Coast

Monday, 19 April 2010, 10:22 am | Southern Environmental Association

The Environment Court has just (on 15 April) issued a wonderful 28 page decision approving OPEN SPACE zoning for the public coastal land at 178-180 Owhiro Bay Parade (at the entrance to the Te Kopahau Reserve - the former Owhiro Bay Quarry) as requested ... More >>

Opau Wetland Should Be Declared A Nature Reserve

Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 4:13 pm | Southern Environmental Association

Opau Wetland Should Be Declared A Nature Reserve   The Southern Environmental Association has called on New Zealand's Conservation Minister Tim Groser and SOE Minister Simon Power to initiate action to designate Wellington City's largest undeveloped swamp ... More >>

Canterbury’s climate change affects everyone

Friday, 7 March 2008, 10:29 am | Southern Environmental Association

Canterbury’s changing climate and its long-term impact on the region will be discussed at next week’s (Wednesday 12 March) free public forum hosted by the Southern Environmental Trust. More >>

Canterbury’s changing climate

Friday, 22 February 2008, 9:13 am | Southern Environmental Association

Climate change and its affect on Canterbury will be discussed at next month’s free public forum hosted by the Southern Environmental Trust. More >>

Shock Vote By Wgtn. CC To Privatise Coastal Park

Friday, 16 June 2006, 10:05 am | Southern Environmental Association

NEWS RELEASE THURSDAY 15 JUNE 2006 Shock Vote By Wellington City Councillors To Privatise Coastal Park Land On Wellington's South Coast Tena Koutou. In a shock vote, on Thursday 15 June 2006, Wellington City Councillors voted to privatise part of the entrance ... More >>

Reprieve for Coastal Land

Thursday, 24 November 2005, 9:56 am | Southern Environmental Association

Following weeks of lobbying and protest action regarding the proposed privatisation of an area of publicly-owned coastal land at Owhiro Bay, the land was given a reprieve at tonight's Wellington City Council meeting. More >>

Youthful Protest Over Wgtn Land Sale

Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 3:04 pm | Southern Environmental Association

11 year old Wellington boy Sean Clark will be speaking to tonight's Wellington CIty Council 5.30 p.m. meeting to urge that public coastal park land at Owhiro Bay should not be sold off for private housing development. More >>

Information Surfaces About Wgtn Land Sale

Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 10:12 am | Southern Environmental Association

This information relates to the Wellington CIty Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday 23 November 2005 which will reconsider the controversial staff proposal to sell off public coastal land on Wellington's South Coast at Owhiro Bay for private housing ... More >>

Fifth Protest Against Coastal Park Sale

Monday, 21 November 2005, 10:01 am | Southern Environmental Association

The Southern Environmental Associaton (SEA) is holding a fifth protest today (Sunday) (from 2 to 5 p.m.) to keep part of the new South Coast coastal park in public hands and stop it being sold to private developers for housing development, encouraged ... More >>

Frigate SInking Ties in with Public Land Protest

Monday, 14 November 2005, 10:17 am | Southern Environmental Association

The Southern Environmental Associaton (SEA) today said it was a "notable coincidence" that the sinking of the frigate off the South Coast has been rescheduled to Sunday 13 November - the same day as a public protest (from 1 to 4 p.m.) to keep part of ... More >>

Southern Environmental Association Protest

Thursday, 27 October 2005, 9:30 am | Southern Environmental Association

On Labour Day, 24 October 2005, from 2.15 to 4 p.m., a public Protest will be held at the gateway to the new coastal reserve at the end of Owhiro Bay Parade in Owhiro Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. More >>

Auckland Coastal Park Praised By Wellingtonians

Friday, 7 October 2005, 9:30 am | Southern Environmental Association

Wellington conservation society the Southern Environmental Association (SEA) today praised the Auckland Regional Council and benefactors Pierre and Jackie Chatelanat for the "wonderful gift" of coastal land at Kaipara Harbour to the public for the ... More >>

Privatisation Plan for Wellington Coastal Land

Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 11:19 am | Southern Environmental Association

The Southern Environmental Association will be asking tonight's Wellington City Council meeting (at 6 p.m. at the Council Chambers, old Town Hall building, Wakefield Street) to abandon plans to sell off part prime public land at the new Owhiro Bay south coast ... More >>

Final decision looms over public coastal land

Monday, 26 September 2005, 11:09 am | Southern Environmental Association

Tena Koutou, Last Thursday 22 September 2005 (in the absence of the local Councillors who represent South Wellington), Wellington City Council's Strategy and Policy Committee pushed through extremely controversial staff recommendations to sell part of the ... More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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