Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Peter Haynes,
I’m always impressed by how well informed you are Russell. This time you score 10/10.
It really only took 10 minutes' searching. The information is all there to be found.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Craig D,
Secondly , who will use the passive recreation area? It probably won’t be those locally, as the Rawalpindi reserve currently stands deserted and disused and closeby Western Springs would be much preferred to a former fairway.
But Rawalpindi Reserve is a small, stranded green space at the bottom of a dead-end street. I discovered it pretty much by accident one day, but you really have to know it's there. A redevelopment that linked up the whole neighbourhood with the park would be a completely different thing.
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Cycle Action Auckland has also highlighted the potential for new walking and cycling paths:
Council is specifically asking whether the changes to the park should include new ways for people to pass through it – i.e. new walk & cycleways. We say yes, very strongly so! Currently, the Northwestern Cycleway runs along the northern edge of the park, but otherwise it is a big barrier for the local community. You can normally only enter at the main entrance, and thus for most people living around it, it might as well be closed.
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Ah. Turns out this proposal was in the Draft Eden-Albert 2014 plan and was the subject of submissions in August. The idea that this is a matter of the board leaving the community out doesn't wash.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Steve Curtis,
Agreed that it is a scandal that public land has a private club on it
Not really, as the story says their lease expired.
And the land has been used for golf at least since WW2 (when it was used by the military).
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Brent Jackson,
I wondered if there would be room for a primary school if Chamberlain Park gave up a few holes at the end of Sutherland Rd (ie the green blob in the west side of the above map).
That did occur to me.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Tom Semmens,
The Unitec campus isn't a park and already includes housing blocks. It's well-supplied with internal roading. I'm fine with housing development on it if it's done right.
And there are no plans for property development on Chamberlain Park. It's being enhanced as a public recreation area.
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Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Steve Curtis,
While the area is almost entirely open space now with a small golf buildings and car park , it will be less open space under these proposals plus major earthworks and loss of significant trees ( again)
“Almost entirely open space” on public land that isn’t available for public use. That’s the point. Keeping an 18-hole course represents a very big opportunity cost.
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Bar in Prague. People at rest, waiter in motion.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good ideas that…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The only other pay off that tour was seeing some punk grab Benny Levin’s wig off his head at one gig – and Craig Scott was an infinitely more friendly touring minder than Corless.
When you played the Brevet Club my mate somehow got talking to Craig outside the venue. We were surprised -- it wasn't that long since he'd been an actual pop star!
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