Birkenhead Residents Association

North Shore City
HERITAGE FESTIVAL

Updated 31 August 2010, by Warwick Jones

3 – 12 September 2010

Pick up an event & activity programme from your local library to participate in celebrating our city’s unique history. There are more than 50 events, from art, photographic exhibitions and afternoon teas to workshops and bush walks, with something for everyone to get involved in.

Public Meeting
MEET THE MAYORS

Updated 31 August 2010, by Warwick Jones

4pm Saturday, September 4th, 2010

John Banks, Len Brown, Andrew Williams

 

Candidates for Supercity Mayor: Come and hear their vision and their plans for the new Auckland Council.

Birkenhead Primary School Hall
77 Mokoia Rd, Birkenhead
4pm THIS Saturday, September 4th

In association with: Northcote Residents Association and Beachhaven-Birkdale Residents Association.

Great Chelsea Gardens: UPDATE

Updated 31 August 2010, by Warwick Jones

The Council will not be considering or hearing the application by the Great Chelsea Garden Trust prior to the Supercity change over, due to:

• The significant amount of further information being sought in the submissions and the limited amount of time available to collect the information and analyse it within a hearings report.
• The restricted availably of the time within the Council calendar within which to prepare and conduct the hearing
• The large number of submitters expressing a wish to be heard at the hearing

Great Chelsea Gardens

Updated 27 July 2010, by Warwick Jones

The Great Chelsea Garden Trust has applied to North Shore City Council to lease the land known as Rawene Road Reserve so that they can develop "themed ornamental gardens." Their vision is to create a 'spectacular garden park of international significance'.

A map of the proposed leased area outlined in Red.

The Trust has also approached property owners to gift a portion of their land to the trust in the hopes that they can secure a ‘pathway’ from the Heritage Park at Chelsea (between Huka and Rawene) up to a recently purchased parcel of private land, and then the reserve.

The trust intends creating a number of outdoor room gardens including Japanese, Korean, begonia, herb, Chinese etc that would involve re-contouring much of the Rawene valley - rumored to be with ‘fill’ from the Victoria Park Tunnel Project.

Further ambitions include the installation of a cable car, and a model railway, and seeking permission to have tourists land at Chelsea Sugar Works to wend their way up the hill.

For more information on this proposal contact:

Graham Milne - 444 4795
Chairman, Chelsea Gardens Trust
84 Hillcrest Avenue, Northcote
Email: gcg@ihug.co.nz

83 Hinemoa Street: Update

Updated 21 May 2010 by Warwick Jones

The developer and representatives of the section 274 parties have been busy negotiating what is believed to be a far more suitable housing development for this unique and historic site.

Artistic impression: Hinemoa Street frontage northern boundary.

Note: These plans (revision 'M') are available to keep local Residents up-to-date on this project and are not open to public debate.