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« Reply #125 on: August 01, 2012, 06:37:44 pm »



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« Reply #126 on: August 01, 2012, 06:38:33 pm »


Queen Street building gets $3m revamp

Auckland Now! | 3:34PM - Wednesday, 01 August 2012

REVAMP: Queen Street's historic Whitcoulls building will get a $3m make over. — GRAHAME COX/Fairfax NZ.
REVAMP: Queen Street's historic Whitcoulls building will
get a $3m make over. — GRAHAME COX/Fairfax NZ.


A LANDMARK heritage building on Queen Street is getting a $3 million-plus make over.

Whitcoulls is renovating the 129-year-old building on the corner of Queen and Victoria streets.

The makeover is already underway and the store will remain open throughout the development, Whitcoulls managing director Ian Draper said.

The majority of the work is expected to be completed by the end of October.

Draper said the interior plan of the 2,000 square metre store will remain much the same, following a change to the layout late last year.

"There are new escalators and carpets, as well as lighting, fixtures and fittings. Our ultimate goal is for this store to be the best book and stationery store in the southern hemisphere," Draper said.

"At three floors it's certainly the biggest and it will definitely be the brightest star in our portfolio once the refurbishment is complete."

The ground floor will continue to focus on books. The mezzanine level will showcase DVDs and magazines, together with children's books, games and toys, and the first level will sell a range of commercial stationery.

The company has worked closely with Auckland Council and the Historic Places Trust to ensure all historical features of the building are protected.


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« Reply #128 on: August 11, 2012, 09:09:07 am »

35 per cent increase reveals rates plan loophole By Wayne Thompson

5:30 AM Thursday Aug 9, 2012
Thousands of homeowners who recently made improvements to their properties have been shocked by rates rises far above the Auckland Council's promised 10 per cent transition cap.  ...   more at
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Auckland Council revising rate bills after outcry
 By Wayne Thompson


5:30 AM Saturday Aug 11, 2012

The Auckland Council is revising 5000 rates bills after an outcry by homeowners who were denied the benefit of a 10 per cent transition cap and left with rises of up to 60 per cent to pay this year.

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« Reply #129 on: August 13, 2012, 07:28:34 am »




Rocketing rates alarm Auckland beachfront residents
 By Bernard Orsman


5:30 AM Monday Aug 13, 2012
 
Residents of a beachfront esplanade in Browns Bay are not happy with their new rates bills, their new water bills and the "socialist" council of Mayor Len Brown.
 
The arrival of rates and water bills has created confusion for the three groups of neighbours in Manly Esplanade - each hit with higher rates bills and paying directly for wastewater for the first time.
 
Real estate agent Mike Sadler feels aggrieved that Mr Brown promised no one would receive more than a 10 per cent increase in rates, yet his combined rates and water bills will rise about 20 per cent.
 
"I feel as if the council is not being honest with me," says Mr Sadler, whose rates are rising from $3000 to about $4000 in 10 per cent sums each year with higher water bills on top.
 
"If you are going to say rates will rise by only 10 per cent, that should be it, 10 per cent," Mr Sadler said.
 
The Auckland Council is revising 5000 rates bills after an outcry by homeowners who were denied the benefit of a 10 per cent transition cap for making home improvements.
 
Council figures show North Shore households will pay an average rates increase of 4.5 per cent this year and a 17.6 per cent increase in wastewater charges. When rates and wastewater charges are combined the average increase is 6.9 per cent.
 
But in areas like Manly Esplanade, where capital valuations vary from about $900,000 to $2 million, the increases are greater.
 
Retired businessman Neil Hemmingsen is seeing the rates on his $2,050,000 home rise about 50 per cent, from $4300 to $6400.
 
He accepts an increase in rates is only fair and reasonable, but strongly objects to the uniform charge of $350 that was set by Mayor Brown and left-leaning councillors to support low-income households.
 
Mr Hemmingsen would have preferred a higher uniform charge - the maximum allowable was $750 - to ensure all ratepayers contributed a more even share for council services instead of high-value property owners like himself paying more.
 
"It's a totally socialist mentality the way rates have been calculated," he said.
 
Glen Hodder and his wife, Jo, who own a health supplements business in Albany, object to paying more and using fewer council services than a large household.
 
They are philosophically opposed to the method of calculating rates based on the capital value of a property.
 
A discussion on rates invariably turns to the performance of the council for the neighbours, who do not think North Shore has fared well under the Super City.
 
Mrs Hodder likens the situation to Europe, where wealthy countries are having to bail out countries like Greece and Spain.
 
Mr Hodder said the council should be paying down debt, not increasing it threefold over 10 years to $8.7 billion, as the world economy passes through uncharted waters.
 
Mr Hemmingsen said the council should stick to the basics - roading, water, rubbish and community events - and not get involved in frivolous expenditure, like spending $10.6 million to bring the V8 Supercars to Pukekohe and $100,000 on an artwork at the Oteha Valley Rd park and ride station.
 
"For what?" he said. "It looks like a pizza oven."
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« Reply #130 on: August 13, 2012, 09:17:48 am »

My rates bill after taking out the waste water componant went down - by all of $30 so my 3 monthly installment is nearly $200 less this year.

However...


I haven't got my monthly water bill yet but my calculations indecate that it will be much higher - the North Shore prediction is 17% and my household is a larger user (5 people, large garden).

I am expecting it is be around $92 per month.
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« Reply #131 on: August 13, 2012, 09:54:36 am »



 we'll hear some screeching soon?

My bolding emphasis
 

Iwi wins right to lift waterfront rent By Anne Gibson


5:30 AM Monday Aug 13, 2012

 
Ngati Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board has won a big victory in a long-running dispute over the value of its land near Auckland's waterfront.
 
A professional arbitrator has ruled the iwi's land at the apartment complex Parnell Terraces at 18-24 The Strand is worth $12.3 million, the higher end of the scale, meaning the lessees who own hundreds of townhouses and apartments and paid no rent for 15 years will now have to pay steep new annual ground rent fees.
 
That decision will also set a precedent for other property owners on the entire 20ha, including corporates in high-rise office blocks and other apartment dwellers.
 
The arbitration ruling from retired High Court judge Robert Fisher QC did not support the arguments by experts for the leaseholders who sought values around half the iwi's.
 
At stake are the annual fees to be paid by owners of 317 apartments and townhouses in a group of streets at the bottom of Parnell.
 
Ngati Whatua can charge an annual 6 per cent of the unimproved value of the ex-railway land, so the argument over many weeks in a Lumley Centre boardroom on Shortland St was over the worth of the ground between Quay St and The Strand.
 
Owners of five complexes fought the iwi: Parnell Terraces, owners of buildings on Cotesmore Way, Dovedale Place, Sudbury Terrace and high-rise The Mirage at 86-88 The Strand off Quay St. Only the Parnell Terraces' decision is out so far.
 
Ngati Whatua engaged commercial barrister Liam McEntegart, formerly of Simpson Grierson, as well as expert valuers Reid Quinlan of Segars & Partners and Sean Molloy of Extensor.
 
The Ngati Whatua valuers argued that the land was worth around $13 million but lessee valuers Iain Gribble & Nigel Dean argued for closer to $6 million to $7 million.
 
Fisher has come down in favour of Molloy and Quinlan's arguments, ruling the land is worth $12.3 million.
 
Gribble was philosophical about the outcome.
 
"Valuation is not an exact science. You'll always get variations in views, so you live with it," he said, referring to his argument for a lower worth due to the quality of the land and factors like the Britomart tunnel compromising it, reclamation and many different uses over the decades.
 
He cited land contamination, instability, a tunnel's intrusion and industry degradation and said the argument came down to engineering evidence.
 
"That's what it came down to in the end," Gribble said.
 
The lessees are now in negotiations with a Ngati Whatua executive over how the outcome of the case is released.
 
"They're trying to strongarm us," one lessee complained of the iwi. "There's still unsettled issues. Ngati Whatua wants to use this arbitration to show everyone else."
 
Fisher has also decided valuations on the GE Finance & BNZ buildings but those are yet to be released.
 By Anne Gibson

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« Reply #132 on: August 13, 2012, 09:56:09 am »

I am expecting it is be around $92 per month.


I'm glad I don't live in Auckland.

Your monthly water bill multiplied by twelve is about 69% of my entire rates bill for the year, which INCLUDES water.
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« Reply #133 on: August 13, 2012, 02:56:32 pm »

Why do you think that putting in a rain barrel could pay its way.
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« Reply #134 on: August 21, 2012, 08:14:12 am »

Yay!


Beach Haven's boat comes in early
 By Mathew Dearnaley


5:30 AM Tuesday Aug 21, 2012


 
Residents of Beach Haven and neighbouring North Shore suburbs are in line for a Waitemata Harbour ferry service, after years of waiting.
 
Auckland Transport yesterday decided to revise its budget so ferries can call at Beach Haven in conjunction with a new service early next year between Hobsonville and the city centre.
 
The council body had already committed itself to pay 80 per cent of a $2.85 million ferry terminal at Hobsonville for completion by Christmas. Developers of a new suburb on the former naval base peninsula will pay the balance to ensure it becomes an attractive marine gateway.
 
But it was only yesterday, after strong lobbying from the Kaipatiki Local Board, that Auckland Transport decided to spend about $1.35 million this financial year to rescue a Beach Haven service from the outer reaches of its long-term fundingplan.
 
That would provide a two-stage gangway with a canopy and "runway" lighting to a floating pontoon, supported by guiding piles, the organisation said last night.
 
Board member Richard Hills welcomed the decision as exciting and logical, saying the new service would have a large catchment of passengers reaching across the Kaipatiki Bridge to Glenfield and beyond, taking cars off the heavily congested commuter route down Onewa Rd to the motorway.
 


Parking arrangements have yet to be made, and Auckland Transport board member Mike Williams told his colleagues that feeder buses would be needed to carry passengers to andfrom an upgraded Beach Havenwharf.
 
Although a Beach Haven ferry service has been discussed for years, the Kaipatiki board was dismayed to find in June that it was unlikely to start before 2017 under Auckland Transport's long-term plan.
 
But that organisation's chief infrastructure officer, Kevin Doherty, said yesterday that his board had decided to allocate funds surplus from elsewhere in its budget to bring the project forward, capitalising on the nearby Hobsonville development.
 
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* Waitemata Harbour ferry service to Hobsonville will call at Beach Haven as well.
 
* $2.85m to be spent by Auckland Transport and developers on ferry terminal for Hobsonville.
 
* $1.35m from Auckland Transport to provide a floating pontoon and gangway at Beach Haven wharf.
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This could be very handy given that next year 2 members of my household will be communting to town daily. Yes, we already have a good bus service but this adds a bicycle option. The wharf is within walking distance of home.
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« Reply #137 on: September 21, 2012, 11:40:07 pm »


Jeeeezus, there's a shitload of young drunks in Ork-lund tonight.

I can hear them yelling and screaming from my hotel room and I'm on the 9th floor! 
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« Reply #138 on: September 22, 2012, 01:37:20 am »


$100,000 for an Auckland CBD car park

By MATTHEW THEUNISSEN - APNZ | 7:09PM - Friday, September 21, 2012

Buying a car park in the centre of Auckland will cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Buying a car park in the centre of Auckland will cost tens of thousands of dollars.

CBD CAR PARKS are selling for as much as $100,000 as a growing number of Aucklanders choose the inner-city lifestyle.

The demand for car parks means people are willing to pay as much per square metre for a car-sized concrete pad as for their home.

Bayleys Real Estate apartment sales specialist Hamish Duke said he sold a car park in the Metropolis building on Courthouse Lane for $100,000 about three years ago.

Six months ago he sold a car park at the Heritage Tower on Nelson Street for $85,000.

The demand for car parks was being driven by more Aucklanders choosing to live in the city, and a flourishing market in inner-city apartments, he said.

"The average price for a car park is somewhere between $50,000 and $60,000. Quay West, the Heritage and the Metropolis get the highest prices because they've got quite expensive apartments there and owners who don't mind spending a bit extra."

Mr Duke said the average price of a CBD apartment per square metre was $4000 to $5000.

Car parks could sometimes fetch more, going for between $3500 to $4500 per square metre.

"The buyers are a real mix — people who work in town; investors who buy them because they're a pretty easy investment and fetch $50-$100 a week rent; then there's people who just need to add another car park to their apartment. In some apartment buildings there isn't a car park for every unit, so they're very popular."

Barfoot & Thompson real estate agent Athena Wang currently has a car park at 155 Queen Street on sale for $67,000.

The owner would also have to pay Auckland Council rates of $882 per year, as well as body corporate fees of $831, plus GST.

Local man Aaron Rodgers is trying to cash in on the high car park prices.

He recently sold his two bedroom Anzac Avenue apartment for $305,000 but the buyer didn't want the car park on nearby Eden Crescent.

"I initially had it [the car park] on at $70,000 just to be a little bit greedy and see what was out there but then I thought I'd be realistic and put it on for $50,000," he said.

"I know the car parks in that building have been selling for $45,000, and my car park is big — it can fit two small cars — so I would have thought it would sell quickly."

After a few days on the market, he hadn't had any interest.

Property analyst Bob Dey said two secure parking spaces on Anzac Avenue were sold under the hammer this week for $34,700 each — about the same price as the going rate for many apartments around town.

"When you look at Anzac Avenue you've got bus lanes, no parking all the way down the street, not many side streets and a large parking company building with expensive parking, so that makes the car parks valuable property," he said.

According to the New Zealand Transport Agency, there were 1,072,392 licensed vehicles in the Auckland region last year.


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« Reply #139 on: September 22, 2012, 08:27:36 am »


Jeeeezus, there's a shitload of young drunks in Ork-lund tonight.

I can hear them yelling and screaming from my hotel room and I'm on the 9th floor! 


go take some good infinite distance vids, show the hotel manager with the volume at max, get a free night or two.

*but I guess the party you are sharing/travelling with will be keeping the neighbours awake too go check the  carpark at http://xtranewscommunity2.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,4577.0/msg,136717.html . there may be one or two unlocked, sleep there*


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« Reply #140 on: September 22, 2012, 09:01:57 am »


I just went to sleep....that shut the noise out.


Anyway, gotta go....time to head up to Sweetpea's neck of the woods to spend heaps buying some additional lenses for my camera.
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« Reply #141 on: October 01, 2012, 07:55:23 am »


Staying in a hotel in Queen Street and walking out the front door is like playing a game of “Spot the Whitie!”   Grin



White faces will soon be a minority

Seven out of 10 Aucklanders comfortable
with city's changing mix of ethnicities.


By LINCOLN TAN - The New Zealand Herald | 5:30AM - Monday, October 01, 2012

The face of Auckland city is slowly changing as students from all ethnicities merge. — Photo: Greg Bowker .
The face of Auckland city is slowly changing as students from all ethnicities merge.
 — Photo: Greg Bowker .


WHITE EUROPEANS could lose majority status in Auckland in the next few years as the combined population of Asians, Pacific Islanders and Maori increases, Statistics New Zealand figures indicate.

While the city's population was 76 per cent white European in 1976, projections show it will be 51 per cent in 2016, with further reductions in later years.

The forecast comes as the Herald begins a five-part series on ethnic diversity in Auckland, where about 40 per cent of the inhabitants were born overseas.

Nearly 70 per cent of Aucklanders in a Herald street poll said they were comfortable with the changing face of the city.

Massey University sociology professor Paul Spoonley, who made the Auckland population projection based on Statistics NZ figures, said it was a matter of "when" rather than "if" minority communities combined would outnumber white Europeans in Auckland.

The high rate of permanent outward migration of New Zealand citizens and the record exodus to Australia would hasten this because most of those who left were European or Maori, he said.

The social shift was also aided by the Immigration Act 1987, which radically changed migrant entry to New Zealand. Requirements were based on individual characteristics, skills and money rather than preferred source countries.

Between 1986 and 2006, the numbers born in Asia and now resident in New Zealand increased by 661 per cent, with the Chinese (899.4 per cent) and Indians (841.6 per cent) dominating growth.

Over that time the number of overseas-born Pacific people also doubled, and migrants from other countries, such as Africa, also increased.

Professor Spoonley said older age groups might struggle to come to grips with this "huge change".

Auckland Chinese Community Centre chairman Arthur Loo, a local-born Chinese, counts himself among those who would be "uncomfortable" if there were more Asians, Pacific and Maori than Pakeha in Auckland.

"I wouldn't want Pakeha to be the minority. I think we as New Zealanders have got to acknowledge what the founding peoples of New Zealand were, and it's Maori and people from the United Kingdom," Mr Loo said.

He said Auckland should remain a city that kept New Zealand's "Maori-European heritage".

"I mean all societies evolve, but I certainly won't want to see the Anglo-Saxon or the English culture subjugated in any way because they, in a large part, have made what is New Zealand and that's why we're here," Mr Loo said.

"They were responsible for building New Zealand to what it is today, and other people come and we take advantage of that."


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« Reply #142 on: October 01, 2012, 07:17:44 pm »

It's been like that for 20 years or so.

At the primary school my kids went to the biggest minority at 33% are Maori, next comes Pakeha/European at 24%.
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« Reply #143 on: October 15, 2012, 10:43:13 am »


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« Reply #144 on: October 16, 2012, 02:17:37 pm »

Epic fail! St Kevin's Arcade is many things but a drive thru is not one of them.


St Kevin's Arcade crash 'ridiculous'

Last updated 14:52 16/10/2012


 
BAD DRIVING: The men try in vain to move their vehicle after getting stuck on an arcade stairs.
 

A group of men believed to have been at a karaoke bar had to get towed out of an Auckland arcade last night after trying to drive down a staircase.

The group tried to drive out of St Kevin's Arcade, on Karangahape Rd, in a 4WD and got stuck on a staircase that leads down to Myers Park.

Matt Wall, who lives in the arcade, said he was playing video games with his flatmates around 11pm when he heard what he thought was someone dropping a bottle down the stairs.

When the 23-year-old went to investigate he saw the vehicle stuck on the top steps and four suited men trying to move it.

"It seems like a pretty ridiculous thing. I think they thought it (the arcade stairs) was a ramp to a car park and they've driven down and gone, 'oh f***'."

Wall said the men in the vehicle, aged between their 20s and 40s, tried to push the 4WD backwards while one of them tried to reverse it.

First Recovery were called to remove it, a job Wall said took about half an hour.

The top stairs were "toasted".

A tow truck spokesman today said the call out was "hilarious".

Police also attended the scene, took photos of the stuck vehicle and spoke to the driver, Wall said.

It is not known if any charges have been laid.   

Wall said in the six months he'd lived in the arcade no other vehicles had tried to drive through it.

But Wine Cellar owner Rohan Evans said shop owners had encountered a problem with people using the front of the arcade as a parking spot.

The problem had got worse in recent years when a smooth pedestrian crossing was put in, he said.

He labelled the men in the 4WD "vandals in suits".

Alleluya Cafe owner Peter Hawkesby said the damage to the stairs was mostly superficial but he hoped the people who did it would pay for it to be repaired; otherwise it would come out of the operating expenses of shop owners.
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Talking about Auckland, here are some photographs from a few weeks ago, including looking down on a rainbow....







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Cars hit nine power poles

 October 23, 2012
 

Press Release – Vector Limited
 It was another busy week for our electricity network. The week saw a total of nine car v poles including incidents at St Johns, Mangere East, Piha and a serious accident in Glen Eden.

An incident in New Lynn saw a car on top of a transformer. Response crews also attended an accident in Mt Eden East where a rubbish truck brought down lines. In all cases we made the sites safe and repaired equipment to minimise disruption to customers....

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Cars hit nine power poles

easyfix:

put all the lines underground with  metro rail ? 


before any easy fix is attempted Nitz dont you think there should be a study as to why the power poles are in the way of the cars ....?

there could be a design flaw with jafavilles road plans ....  Shocked
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« Reply #149 on: October 24, 2012, 11:23:25 am »

The design flaw is in the minds of some Jafaville drivers!

What would have they hit if they didn't hit the poles first?
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