This week we have asked the newest City Councillor, Celeste Donovan, who replaced James Daniels when he resigned from Christchurch City Council. It was an interesting election, and the people of the East elected a strong woman with environmental skills to lead the very part of this city which will … [Read more...]
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Are Golf Courses really a good use of urban space?
The matter of housing and golf courses, which I questioned the number of ones we have last week, encouraged at least three really interesting answers,mostly disagreeing with me! Here they are: 1. From Chris Kissling: Golf courses are open space. They contribute to welfare and wellbeing, the … [Read more...]
Building to Scale – Winton Steps up
How exciting to see the story about Sunfield and Winton Developments on TV and the next day wrapped around our Press newspaper. 5,000 homes in a 15 Minute neighbourhood! The following is from their website but at first glance it looks amazing, and visionary - wouldn't it have been great to have … [Read more...]
CDHB an interesting summary of the Audit and the role of Dr Levy and Ernst&Young
On September 24, 2021, Ian Powell produced an article labelled “Reputations in tatters”. We are reprinting it here as it substantiates the comments which we, and a host of others, have made over the past year before, and after, the … [Read more...]
The world anguishes over what will happen in Afghanistan
If you’re like me, you have been staring at the TV with your mouth open as the country of Afghanistan tears itself apart. I remember my father saying that when he fought in the Second World War with the Americans in the Pacific that they were hazardous allies. His observation was that they had … [Read more...]
Ian Powell’s latest article
Business desk has published an excellent article by Ian Powell yesterday on the health reforms. Under the headline Why it's risky to get rid of DHBs the article included: There are two ways to make sustainable, transformational changes in universal public health systems – structural change or … [Read more...]
Garry muses on Three Waters…
The next Tuesday Club session will be on the 10th of August. Not this week. It’s been a month since writing the Tuesday Club notes. It has been a time to reflect and to read. I have become increasingly concerned about the proposed “restructure” of our water systems by Central Government. In my … [Read more...]
Open Government proposed changes the OIA and openness of Central and Local Government
In Newsroom recently it was reported that the Government has been working on an “open government plan”. In the article it stated The Government has been urged to delay its latest open government plan by a year, with civil society organisations concerned about insufficient community … [Read more...]
Well done CCC Engagement team
Whether you agree with the decision, or not, the feedback from the CCC engagement team on the Representation Review came into my in box this week and was informative and helpful. Here’s what it said: Thank you again for making a submission in the Representation Review Initial Proposal and to … [Read more...]
Working together to make democracy alive and responsive
This week I received an email from a group promoting different forms of democracy. This group has an AGM and talk Wednesday 30 March at 7.30 and it will be all over by 9pm. The speaker will be Max Rashbrooke and his address is labelled ‘Overcoming the obstacles to deeper democracy in New … [Read more...]