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Summer City Kicks-off With A Bang This New Year’s Eve
Monday, 21 December 2020, 11:44 am | Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council’s jam-packed Summer City programme kicks-off this New Year’s Eve, and with events and activities happening all over the capital there’s something for everyone. Whairepo Lagoon will be the place to be for New Year’s ... More >>
Work Starts In Te Aro Park To Improve Safety
Monday, 14 December 2020, 12:19 pm | Wellington City Council
As part of the Wellington City Council project to improve safety in Te Aro Park, work on installing more lighting and a CCTV camera has started today (Monday 14 December). The Te Aro Park - Assessing Harm report, a collaboration between Council and the ... More >>
Te Reo Name Gifted To Sport And Community Building At Alex Moore Park
Friday, 11 December 2020, 9:37 am | Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council’s Strategy & Policy Committee has unanimously approved Waiora as the official name for the Sport and Community Building at Alex Moore Park. The name Waiora , meaning water of life, was selected following engagement ... More >>
Celebrate Waitohi’s First Birthday This Saturday
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 3:21 pm | Wellington City Council
Wellingtonians are invited to join in the fun at Waitohi’s first birthday party this Saturday. “It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we opened Waitohi. It has been an outstanding success in bringing both the local and wider Wellington ... More >>
Meeting To Consider Replacing Municipal Office Building
Friday, 4 December 2020, 3:16 pm | Wellington City Council
Next Thursday (10 December 2020) Wellington City Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee will consider the future of the Municipal Office Building (MOB) in Te Ngākau Civic Square. This is the planned home for a new National Music Centre (NMC). “The ... More >>
End Of Year Boost For Community, Arts, Resilience And Heritage
Thursday, 3 December 2020, 1:38 pm | Wellington City Council
Funding was allocated through five funds yesterday by the Wellington City Council Grants Subcommittee, with just under $1 million ($946,431) allocated to over 77 groups, buildings and organisations around the city. The recipients received funding from ... More >>
Wellington City Council And Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University Of Wellington Form Tree Planting Partnership
Thursday, 3 December 2020, 10:56 am | Wellington City Council
Students and staff from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington will plant new native forest on the Outer Green Belt in an environmental partnership with Wellington City Council. Councillors today approved the initiative that will see ... More >>
Get Ready To Face The Music At Gardens Magic 2021
Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 10:28 am | Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council is pleased to announce the exciting line-up for its iconic Gardens Magic 2021 event, which has something for everyone – young and old, near and far, cool and classic, and all those in between. The iconic annual concert series ... More >>
Be Careful Out There In Wellington Due To Southerly Gales
Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 6:20 am | Wellington City Council
Commuters in Wellington are urged to take care this morning as southerly gales hit the region. Wellington City Council has received about 20 calls in the past 12 hours or so – first related to heavy rain and latterly due to the high winds. In the ... More >>
2021-31 Long-term Plan: Engagement Begins
Friday, 27 November 2020, 11:56 am | Wellington City Council
Wellington residents are helping shape their city’s priorities as the City Council prepares to set a budget for the next 10 years. Pre-engagement has begun on the Council’s 2021-31 Long-term Plan (LTP) with community sessions that ask attendees to help identify ... More >>
Dubious Fashion Wastage Helps Inspire New Bylaw
Thursday, 26 November 2020, 12:41 pm | Wellington City Council
Big improvements in the ways Wellingtonians create and dispose of waste – everything from junk mail and household rubbish to concrete, steel and other materials from demolition sites – are afoot following a unanimous vote at yesterday’s monthly ... More >>
It’s Going To Be A Very Welly Christmas This Weekend
Monday, 23 November 2020, 2:50 pm | Wellington City Council
The annual A Very Welly Christmas event will take over the CBD for two days of whānau friendly fun and festivities – and everyone’s invited. It’s been a challenging year, but the next few months will see events and activities energising, entertaining ... More >>
Easier For All To FixIt With New Features Introduced
Friday, 13 November 2020, 12:54 pm | Wellington City Council
New features on the FixIt app will make it more accessible for low-vision users to report any problems that need fixing around the city. Following reports low-vision users had issues with the FixIt app not being legible when text was scaled up – ... More >>
Early Christmas Special Brings Free Parking To The CBD
Wednesday, 11 November 2020, 12:23 pm | Wellington City Council
Christmas is coming early to the CBD, with a weekend parking special being offered at Clifton Car Park from this weekend. The car park, owned by Waka Kotahi and managed by Wellington City Council, is offering a weekend parking special where the first ... More >>
Seniors’ Week Connects The Capital’s Golden Oldies
Friday, 6 November 2020, 12:21 pm | Wellington City Council
Te Wiki Kaumātua Seniors' Week kicks-off on Sunday with over 60 events and activities designed to build connections, encourage movement, and reduce isolation for the older members of our community. The 60 events and activities happening around the capital ... More >>
Draft Cemeteries Management Plan Open For Feedback
Friday, 6 November 2020, 9:46 am | Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council’s draft strategic and management plan for Mākara, Karori and Tawa Cemeteries is now open for public feedback. The Council has statutory responsibilities under the Burials and Cremations Act to provide for burials and manage cemeteries. ... More >>
150 Years To Become A Major Page-turner
Wednesday, 4 November 2020, 2:15 pm | Wellington City Council
Wellington is known as one of the world’s most scenic and creative cities, with a history of interesting people, events and organisations – and to mark the Council’s 150th anniversary, Mayor Andy Foster is launching the ‘150 Short Story competition’. ... More >>
Diwali Festival Fireworks Postponed To Friday 13 November
Tuesday, 3 November 2020, 11:03 am | Wellington City Council
The Diwali fireworks display will light up the sky on Friday 13 November 2020, after strong winds postponed the finale event (and alternate weather day) during the official festival last weekend. The fireworks, sponsored by Kāpura, are scheduled to go off ... More >>
Council Reaches Settlement On Quake-damaged Building
Monday, 2 November 2020, 1:40 pm | Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council has agreed a $38 million (excluding GST) insurance payout following damage to its Civic Administration Building (CAB) in Te Ngākau Civic Square in the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. Mayor Andy Foster welcomed the confirmation today ... More >>
Wellington’s Draft Spatial Plan: What Happens Next
Monday, 2 November 2020, 12:36 pm | Wellington City Council
2926 individuals and organisations have made known their views on how and where Wellington’s growing population should be housed over the next few decades. Mayor Andy Foster describes the response to the City Council’s draft Spatial Plan as ... More >>
