Wellington.Scoop
“We eschew strongly the sole-provider catering model that Westpac Stadium has adopted and regard it as a major negative to fans.” Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Five days before yesterday’s early-morning attack on a woman walking on a pathway near the university, the VUW newspaper Salient questioned whether it was safe for women to walk home at night on the path. Read more »

by Kent Duston
The city council’s traffic engineers have recently proposed that the speed limit on some CBD roads be reduced to 30 km/hr. On the surface, this sounds like a good idea – after all, the laws of physics would tell us that slower crashes will equal fewer injuries. But a more detailed reading of the proposal says that it’s the dumbest way to spend $250,000 imaginable. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
The city council was directly involved in the process that stopped a cinema selling wine or beer to moviegoers on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Read more »

by Kate Larkindale
I thought it was important that all our Penthouse customers know what is happening over Easter weekend. The new liquor licensing laws that came into effect in December are making it so we are not permitted to sell alcohol on Good Friday or Easter Sunday unless you are at the cinema for a meal (and that’s not just a bowl of fries, apparently). Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
A second cinema has been affected by city council actions (or lack of them). Read more »

Lights out at the Embassy since last month

by Lindsay Shelton
I didn’t want to tell a bad joke for a third time. So I gave the council a third chance to show that it could replace some faulty light bulbs. But it’s been unable to do the job. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Will the Wellington City Council defend the people of the Takapu Valley against the Transport Agency’s sudden threat to bulldoze a highway through their rural community? You’d expect the council (and the mayor) would want to defend such an area. But there’s no sign that the council is willing to take a stand. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
The Transport Agency is under attack from several local communities. But the Agency does not have a record of being willing to listen to community concerns. Read more »

by Daran Ponter
During 2012 we held a series of well attended meetings across the city to discuss and encourage submissions on the Wellington Bus Review. This led to more than 5,000 submissions on the proposals. Read more »

Price George at Government House in Wellington today. Photo from Govt House

News from Royal NZ Plunket Society
A Plunket nurse and 10 Plunket families and their babies met Prince George and his parents at Government House in Wellington today. Read more »

by Alana Bowman
The Environment Court criticised the Wellington City Council in 2012 for ignoring the advice of Waterfront Watch which it said was “a key party to the formulation of waterfront policy [and was] excluded from consultation.” But now, Waterfront Watch need feel ignored by the council no longer. Read more »

by Sarah Free
Glad to say that Council last night passed ( 9 to 6) an amendment moved by Helene Ritchie and seconded by myself, to remove a potentially confusing and somewhat ambiguous option to negotiate/sell Town Belt Land in anticipation of it being compulsorily acquired under the Public Works Act. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Two different approaches to controlling the town belt are being debated by Wellington city councillors at a meeting tonight. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
If the Basin Flyover inquiry has seemed till now to be hearing a disproportionate amount of concern about the welfare of cricketers, things have changed at last with local people starting to give evidence about their concerns. Read more »

Photo from IMA Brisbane

Wellington.Scoop
This towering helical steel structure is one of the astonishing surprises in the Simon Starling ‘in speculum’ exhibition now at the City Gallery. Read more »

Photo from Transport Blog

Wellington.Scoop
The Auckland-based Transport Blog has raised serious concerns about the surprising and unwelcome plan to build a four-lane expressway through the Takapu Valley. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Six years ago the city council said it didn’t want a large empty building site in Mt Cook. It was a meaningless statement. A year later the council got what it didn’t want, when the Boys Institute swimming pool was demolished to make way for a supermarket. It was a pointless demolition. The site has been empty ever since. Read more »