The Mt Albert Residents’ Association is pressing Auckland Council for answers over the decision – against the advice of its own transport agency – to allow Ngati Whatua iwi to sub-divide land it owns within the Unitec block. As reported by Mt Albert Inc last week, the application by the iwi development company, Whai Rawa,…
Housing New Zealand is planning to redevelop its land at 17-21 Segar Ave and has lodged a resource consent application with Auckland Council. The corporation will build 18 one-bedroom units (as pictured here), all designed by Ashton Mitchel Architects – and, presumably, all for state tenants. A start date has not yet been disclosed but…
The local board plan to re-develop Chamberlain Park seems to have been put on hold while a High Court judge waits until well into the New Year to hear final arguments in a judicial review. The Save Chamberlain Park group gathered more than 6000 signatures on a petition against the Albert-Eden board moves and raised…
Mt Albert’s A-listed heritage gun emplacement may soon look less like a hovel where taggers and late-night drinkers come to cause mischief. The Albert Eden Local Board has stepped up and will tell Auckland Council that it wants to be regarded as a local guardian for the war monument built in the grounds of Chamberlain…
Mt Albert people need to step up and play their role in helping to save Auckland’s creeks, beaches and harbours from pollution after decades of neglect.
Home-owners in Mt Albert have enjoyed a spurt in the value of their properties over the last three years, and soon they will be paying a bigger whack in rates to reflect those gains. Auckland Council yesterday revealed the results of the triennial update of capital values for 548,000 homes, units and apartments across the…
The giant Unitec plan to develop a new township with up to 3000 homes has taken a surprise step forward – and the right of local residents to have a say on the shape of the first stage has been rejected.
In a suburb where streets of lovely old bungalows are at risk of surviving another decade or two, Mt Albert has just four sites alongside the highest heritage ratings in the land. It should be no surprise that one of them is Alberton House, one of the country’s finest old residences, with a history dating back…
The bulldozers and builders will move on to Housing New Zealand’s land at 33 Asquith Ave in January to finally start work on a development that by now should have been well-advanced. When the construction crews come back from their summer holidays to start the project, it will be almost three years since the decaying…
Sir Harold Marshall is a tireless contributor to the cause of making Mt Albert an even better place in which to live, and is co-chair of MARA
Watercare insists there are no flow-on drainage issues from their decision to avoid an expensive solution to the boggy areas on the off-leash “paddock” on the mountain top. After the story posted on Mt Albert Inc yesterday, Watercare’s Sharon Danks said the drainage works were never part of the 2015 reservoir membrane replacement project. The…
The bog on top of the mountain may be with us forever. The dog off-leash area sitting on the reservoir on the south-west edge of Owairaka has soggy areas that locals hoped might be solved by major repair work in 2015. But the problem remains – and it’s not going away. The two worst areas…