Posts by Glenn Pearce
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Hard News: The Unitec project: Something…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Interestingly the phrase “public” housing has been used repeatedly by Ardern and Twyford and I haven’t seen anything regarding Housing NZ involvement in the project
I wonder whether they have some other concept of social housing in mind.
I’ve also seen talk of leasehold arrangements mentioned.
The Labour are really doing themselves a dis-service here by not releasing enough detail on this project. For a team that campaigned on transparency they are leaving a lot of unanswered questions
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Hard News: The Unitec project: Something…, in reply to Russell Brown,
They'll have to go to the height all over it to hit Twyford's numbers. Quick back of fag packet numbers, 27metres = 10 storeys, say 5 apartments each floor, 350sqm footprint
= about 80 x 10 storey apartments to get to 4,000
And that's being generous, no allowance for green space, roads, retail, schools etc.
I wish someone would correct me, but the numbers just don't add up
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Hard News: The Unitec project: Something…, in reply to Ben Ross,
Correct me if I'm wrong but Transform Manukau involves 600 Hectares? Unitec is 28 Hectares. Manukau 21x the land area for 9x the number of dwellings?
Hobsonville Pt 167 Hectares, 4500 homes
Argent Lane Orewa, 190 Hectares, 2400 homes
Tamaki Regeneration 120 Hectares, 1200 homesUnitec 28 Hectares, 4000 homes
6x the intensification of Hobsonville Pt?
What is proposed for Unitec is intensification on a scale unseen before in NZ. This will be nothing like Hobsonville Pt or Stonefields that people are likening it to.
A bit more detail at the announcement would go a long way to allaying people's concerns wouldn't it?
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Hard News: The hard road to a…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I do wonder how much of what is going on is budget related. Hard to tell if the variations in cycleway approaches are AT "trying different things" or being forced into taking shortcuts because of budget restrictions.
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It seems like every cycleway in this city has a different design/approach. Some of them are not even instantly recognizable as cycleways to be quite honest.
Could we not take the time to come up with a standard template approach and only vary from that when absolutely necessary?
Seems to me if would a lot safer (drivers know a cycleway when they see one) and cheaper to build and importantly maintain.
We've got concrete, tarseal, pavers.
We've got about 5 different types of flexi posts, planter boxes, rubber separators, concrete separators, no separation.
We've got pink, rainbow, long blocks of solid kermit, short pieces of kermit, different colours of kermit, no kermit.
We've got in berm, inside parked carks, outside parked cars, no parking.
We've got raised platforms at road crossings, we've got paths that go back onto the road at crossings.
We've got single direction, we've got bi-direction, got shared cycle/pedestrian.
We've got against the traffic flow, with the traffic flow.Seems a very expensive way for AT to "learn".
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The reason for the delay in replacing the water main in Moa Rd is that they’re having trouble sourcing the 4.5million orange cones required to line the road for 6 months during the works
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Hard News: A thundering clash of, in reply to Nick Russell,
Possibly because of this, they were basically all at it back then
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/2930184/Greens-pay-back-double-dip-rent-error
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I think, as he suggests here, that the big danger for the urbanists is that they become pigeonholed as narrow central Auckland liberals.
Yes, there was quite noticeable difference in diversity between the 2 events from the quick glimpses on the OneNews last night that I saw.
Both teams preaching to the converted to a certain extent I guess.
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Isn’t the testing between tenancies being driven as much by the Insurance Companies as anything esle?
I think they require that you prove the contamination occurred during the period of cover in order to claim against your policy
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Hard News: Grenfell: a signal moment, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
The KCTMO is a not-for-profit *owned* by the Residents so I'm not sure about that profit/risk angle but if that information about the cost of cladding is correct it would be outrageous to choose the non-fired rate version in a refurb worth 10 million quid.
I see the former chairman of the KCTMO quit because he felt the refurb was beyond the capabilities of the TMO