Mt Albert Grammar School’s zone has changed – cutting out the Unitec land where the Government plans to build a new town of up to 4000 homes. The Ministry of Education has approved the school’s application to amend its zone and the change takes effect from this month, pulling the western boundary back to Carrington…
The Great Swimming Pool Saga continues to bubble away, with Auckland Council now muddying the waters by suggesting the existing aquatic centre may have a long-term future in the Mt Albert Grammar School grounds.
Politics may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but when your local MP is Jacinda Ardern more people are inclined to take an interest. Mt Albert Inc featured three stories on the Prime Minister in May and they all scored highly on the “must-read” list. In a month drawing 14,000 separate page views, the story…
Auckland Transport is still trying to find the “sweet spot” that will allow the most efficient traffic flows through the main Mt Albert village intersection, and it will be the middle of next week before the fine-tuning gives the best result. A full fortnight after the ceremony to mark the end of the village upgrade,…
The writing may be on the wall for a new swimming pool in Mt Albert to replace the decaying aquatic centre. The 20-year-old centre in the grounds of Mt Albert Grammar is on borrowed time in more ways than one – and there are signs it will be replaced in the “inner-west” by a new…
As the queues remain and the rat-runs through side streets grow, a solution to the major east-west flow problems at the village lights may be staring us in the face.
Scores of city parks and public carparks will be opened up to freedom campers if Auckland Council officers get their way – a proposition likely to raise merry hell out in the suburbs.
What a lovely community we have in Mt Albert – how many times have you heard that? At the village upgrade ceremony last weekend, even Jacinda Ardern was telling us we were something special.
Right, now we’ve got rid of those damned orange cones, the village has passed its appearance test. It just looks and feels better. But what about the traffic test to really get everyone snarling if it tripped: the challenge of the first peak commuter run?
When you have a rock star on your patch, it’s great that everything goes smoothly. Well, nearly everything.
It can be hard to love Auckland Transport, and anyone working there needs very thick skin.
Is it fair and reasonable to subject someone as elevated as the Prime Minister to an impromptu test of local knowledge – as if she were competing for a bar tab at an Albert’s Post quiz night?