Posts by Russell Brown
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Okay, I have a few more books than I thought. I've tossed in another 30 to make it a round 100 -- and that is REALLY it, folks.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Sean C,
And i remember growing up, playing on fields in the weekend where my parents would drive me to Maharani for a game of rugby, so going to Glen Innes really shouldn’t be a problem.
And for midweek training too? Local school and club teams driving to the far end of the isthmus to play home games?
There is a multitude of fields out Waitakere also available for use. Pretty much a 10 minute drive once you get onto that motorway. Am pretty sure most people that would be using the proposed fields would end up driving down anyway…
I guess it depends on how much you're prepared to privilege an 18-hole golf course at the expense of the rest of the local ratepaying community.
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Just checked -- only three left, so I added another 20. That's 70 books -- more than half my stash!
I might have to call time on this offer soon ...
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The end of the road at Rawalpindi Reserve. It only needs another 50m, a right turn and a little walk-cycle bridge and it connects with Chamberlain.
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Nearly sold out!
I've added another 20.
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Hard News: Great New Zealand Argument: A…, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
Signed by Lange?
Heh, nah. That would cost way more.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Matt Pitt,
Being able to access the quiet, suburban streets directly from the cycleway (as you can all the way from St Lukes Road to Newton Gully) via Chamberlain Park would be a much preferable option.
Sure would. And as you say, it's the southward route that's dodgy.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Matt Pitt,
Yes – I live pretty much one street south of Chamberlain Park, and to be able to ride through it to access the Northwestern Cycleway would be amazing. I’d never have to run the gauntlet of St Lukes Rd ever again.
My thought too.
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Sports Field Demand and Supply 2014 Final.pdf
The Longdill report itself is here.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
I live near Fowlds Park which is on the other side of St Lukes Road from Chamberlain Golf Course and has a planned upgrade which will drastically change the integration between the lower and upper fields (replacing some of the sloping bank with a retaining wall). The upgrade is required because Eden/Albert simply does not have the number of fields to support the local population.
This is a table from the September 2014 Longdill report on Auckland sportsfield capacity – looking at the predicted shortfall by 2025. Central Auckland has the biggest problem – and you're right, the area around the golf course is the worst of it. It does put the current use of the whole 32ha as a golf course in some context.
The community board isn’t just making this stuff up.
PS: There seems to be some suggestion that redeveloping Chamberlain will make the radical surgery on Fowlds Park unnecessary.
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