A new term for Tāmaki Makaurau’s city council is rolling out amidst sizeable public transport changes for the city. Namely, the restructuring of responsibility that transfers primary policy and planning powers to council and leaves transport delivery responsibilities to Auckland Transport.
It has also been announced that 4162 of the approximately 10,000 special votes in the recent Auckland election were deemed invalid due to outdated enrolment details, or missing and incorrect declarations on voting forms.
Producer Jasmine spoke to Councillor Fairey about her thoughts on the future of Auckland’s transport systems and policy in the coming years, and her concerns around disenfranchisement of local democracy in light of the large number of discounted votes.
Auckland Council and the government have recently announced plans to cooperate with a new Auckland City Deal. The deal concerns collaborations between council and central government over the next few decades, across issues such as Eden Park’s ownership and operation or investigations into a potential bed levy.
Part of the plan and part of Auckland Council’s recent disputes with government has been housing planning. In February of this year, the minimum housing cap for Auckland was lowered from 2 million to 1.6 million, and was lowered again in March to 1.4 million.
The drop came alongside complaints from many residents of central suburbs such as Ponsonby, Mt Eden, and Epsom, who say intensification would hurt the character of their neighbourhoods. On the other side of the debate are those who say that intensification is necessary to ensure housing remains affordable, especially close to the CBD.
To discuss the debate and what the City Deal has for Auckland, News Director Castor spoke to Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, Dr. Elham Bahmanteymouri.
While most of you would have been fending off rabid present hungry offspring in an attempt at a few more precious minutes of Sunday morning shut-eye, Angus Thunder was in the studio providing the sound track for the peak of the silly season. Tune in to hear an oh so eclectic selection of alt.Xmas hits, the likes of whilch you'll never hear again... Until next year that is. Merry Xmas from Angus and the Sunday Morning whanau. Thanks to Dom Nola for producing this podcast.
Bit o' Mad Season; Comey + MP asset disclosure w/ Dr. Bryce Edwards; a triple-dip w/ Troy from Southbound in From the Crate; thesping w/ Sarah; and Booga Beazley stands us up. Bloody planes.
Julia Croft and Nisha Madhan talk to us about their award winning performance piece, Power Ballad. About to embark on a return season, fundraising to get the show to Edinburgh, the women discuss their influences; why we love power ballads so much; and how, almost always in life, controlling the mic means controlling the conversation.
Statistics New Zealand has revealed a price spike for fruit and vegetables in the country, with an unusually wet Autumn season proving an important contributing factor. Wire producer Lucy Austin has the story.
The Sunday Best podcast - back after some seasonal glitches! Two hours of Angus Thunder plus the 95bFM News and Editorial Department's highlights from the week that was, This Weeks Bits.
We got a bit carried away in the first flush of our new television and streaming segment, Viewmaster. Or, given that this week's is all about the recently season-seven-wrapped Game of Thrones, perhaps this week's edition is better called... View-maester? [slow distant clap] Oh dear.
It's pisces season with our 2 tuawahine from the Grow Room whana, Nicole (Locapinay) and Aroha. Get ready to learn, dance and do a bit of self growth. ~ Remember, we're all just star dust and atoms ~
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