A second landslide has torn away another chunk of a car park in Auckland’s Birkenhead, and is creeping towards businesses. What began as a crack in the public car park in August, has steadily worsened. The back half of Rawene Rd car park slipped down a gorge on October 8. Now, a second …
After a giant slip hit a parking lot, Auckland’s Birkenhead is getting $15,000 to encourage shoppers back into the town centre ahead of Christmas. The Kaipātiki Local Board agreed to give $15,000 to the Birkenhead Town Centre Association at a board meeting on November 15. Construction work had reduced parking …
The huge Rawene car park slip could create a dam endangering the iconic Chelsea heritage park below it, council engineers say. At a local board meeting on Wednesday, Auckland Council’s geotech lead Ross Roberts said they were monitoring the situation “carefully” as there was a risk of the landslide causing …
Top AT and Council staff maintain local development had nothing to do with the massive Rawene car park slip last week. Here is a selected transcript from the Kaipatiki Local Board (LB) meeting on Wednesday night. They were questioning AT Senior Communications Advisor Nahri Salim, Auckland Council’s Geotechnical & Geological …
The $3-million construction plan to upgrade an Auckland town centre will go ahead on schedule, despite pleas from business owners asking for a deferral. Birkenhead Town Centre Association chairman Pete Taylor said given the recent Rawene car park slip in Birkenhead, it was “inappropriate” for the upgrade to proceed in …
Residents near a newly-formed slip in an Auckland carpark say they are disappointed it took so long to be taken seriously. The back half of Birkenhead’s public Rawene Car Park slipped down a gorge on Sunday night and has continued to slip since. Claire Balfour, the chairwoman of the body …
First it was a crack, now the whole back half of a North Shore carpark has slipped away. The rear section of Rawene car park in Auckland’s Birkenhead was closed off by Auckland Transport for safety reasons on September 20, following the subsidence of an already existing crack. Fewer than …
Cracks are growing at an Auckland car park that has already been closed because of subsidence. The rear section of Birkenhead’s Rawene car park was closed off by Auckland Transport for safety reasons on September 20, following the subsidence of an already existing crack. A comparison between photographs taken on …
Drivers are outraged at Auckland Transport’s decision to give a private developer exclusive access to 25 public car parks from an already strained car park on the North Shore. Despite a significant shortage of car parking in the Birkenhead community, Auckland Transport (AT) has allowed private developers, Chelsea Bay, the …
A pine tree stands at the centre of a heated debate around pedestrian safety and main street car parking in a North Shore town centre. Kaipatiki Local Board voted on the “option one” design for a planned upgrade to Birkenhead’s town centre at a meeting on April 19. Option one …
