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In a month’s time when the eight Auckland Councils merge into one, we will have an interesting situation. They all still have different ways of interpreting the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act 1987.
In the Randerson decision on 1 October 2004, the Judge pointed out that proper interpretation of the “immediate pool area” was a key issue. Yet six years later little has changed. For i
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London has had many economic roles over the centuries and now hopes to settle down as a cultural capital and somewhere between ‘Europe’s financial centre’ and ‘the world’s financial centre’. This requires a planning and design response which is likely to include (1) more large green buildings, because big firms have big space requirements (2) more homes for young, rich and mobile people (3) more urban public space of the highest quality and greatest variety: busy and quiet, large and small, glazed and unglazed, soft and hard, wild and cultured, space at ground level, above ground and below ground, space for shopping and space for prayer, space with quiet water, bright water, dark water, swimming water, boating water and living water, biodiversity, socially diverse space for each cultural group (listeners to Radios 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc) and social space for the particular interests of ethnic, work and leisure groups. Lon
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We just got back from a weekend away at a popular resort in the forest. Yes, we went in the swimming dome and yes we ate pancakes at the Pancake House. But what the whole experience brought home to me is that when you’re two and half ‘everything’ is exciting! And sometimes the most simple of experiences mean the world to you.
The trees, the cycle trailer, the fact that you get your own helmet that is red! The two baby deer that we saw, the fighting squirrels, a pine cone – what’s a pine cone? The den t
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A Wellington developer and a contractor have been fined $10,000 each in the District Court after pleading guilty to undertaking illegal earthworks on a hillside above the entrance to the Ngauranga Gorge.
Primeproperty Group Limited and Morepork Holdings (2004) Limited both earlier pleaded guilty to using a bulldozer to cut tracks on the hillside above Jarden Mile and the Hutt Road in contravention of the Resource Management Act. The prosecution had been pursued by Wellington City Council.
Last Friday 10 September, Judge Thompson convicted and fined the companies $10,000 each for the offence.
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I’m currently working on the next book in the Jackson’s Garden series. The first book was received really well and so I’m working on the next story that introduces tiny readers to the merits of bees! It’s not quite finished yet, I still have a few pages left to draw and paint but the story is taking shape.
I just love the process of thinking up the story, planning the layout, drawing painting and seeing the whole thing come together. I find it very relaxing, a bit like gardening really.
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