This morning Guyon Espiner talked to Brandon Wilcox of Grey Lynn Residents Association and Leroy Beckett of Generation Zero about the Auckland Unitary Plan.
Read the article and embedded interviews here or click here to listen to the Morning Report interview with Brandon Wilcox and Leroy Beckett. [Read more…]
In February 2016 Grey Lynn Residents Association submitted a proposal to Waitemata Local Board for a community-led precinct vision for Great North Road.
The proposal is on the agenda to be considered at the next Board meeting. The recommendations to be considered are that the Waitemata Local Board… [Read more…]
A number of Grey Lynn residents provided feedback on SeaPath, a proposed 3km long walking and cycling path between Takapuna and Northcote Point.
Although SeaPath is not a Grey Lynn project, it is of interest to Grey Lynn residents, especially if it connects directly with the proposed SkyPath harbour bridge crossing. This will open up the North Shore to easy bicycle and pedestrian access from our side of the bridge. [Read more…]
In May the Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel will finish hearing submissions on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan. By July Auckland Council will be presented with the Panel’s proposed changes and the Unitary Plan will be one step closer to becoming fully operative.
It seems an appropriate time to review where we are with the plan, and how we have got here.
Late on the afternoon of Thursday 14 April 2016 Grey Lynn Residents Association representatives Liz Hancock, Nicola Legat and Tania Mace made their final appearance in front of the Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel (IHP).
This was the very end of a lengthy process that began in 2013 when [Read more…]
Waitemata Local Board wants you to have your say on the Local Board’s priorities & activities, and how the 2016-2017 Auckland Council budget is spent.
We are hosting a public meeting as follows for you to find out more about Waitemata Local Board priorities & activities from members of the board, and to give you an opportunity to provide feedback on local and regional Auckland Council Budget consultation topics, including the Interim Transport Levy, rates and local priorities.
When: 7:00 pm Wednesday 24 February
Where: Grey Lynn Returned Services Club, 1 Francis St, Grey Lynn
Refreshments: A cash bar will be open to quench your thirst.
This financial year the Waitemata Local Board plans to improve local facilities by increasing investment in parks and open spaces. They will continue to support community-led projects as well as deliver actions from the recently adopted Waitemata Low Carbon Action Plan.
This meeting is your chance to hear what they have to say about these initiatives, and the 2016/17 Auckland Council Budget, and provide feedback in person.
We hope to see you there!
Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance has launched a “Unitary Plan Petition” to tell Auckland Council to withdraw their undemocratic “out of scope” zoning changes.
In December last year, just before Christmas (forgive us for being cynical about their timing), Auckland Council announced zoning changes to many Auckland suburbs with no consultation and no ability for ratepayers to give any feedback whatsoever.
About 60 people attended our information evening on 25 January to hear about Auckland Council’s up-zoning of selected Grey Lynn streets.
We gave attendees [Read more…]
Latest Auckland Council zone changes mean your street can be filled with apartments. Voice your support or opposition at our information evening… [Read more…]
It has been a very busy year for the committee of the Grey Lynn Residents’ Association, which has had several key issues to address during the year.
The GLRA’s extensive submissions on the Draft AUP resulted in a flurry of invitations to hearings with the Independent Hearings Panel (IHP) throughout the year. Like most residents’ groups across the isthmus, there were so many of these and the timetabling was so onerous that we simply did not have the time to attend them all and so we prioritised them based on the key issues for our neighbourhood: intensification, zoning and heritage protection.
The Surrey Cres Working Group is organising a protest this Friday and next Friday to encourage Auckland Transport not to remove parking spaces outside the shops to create a major bus transit centre.
Instead of locating the new, double-length bus stops smack bang in the middle of [Read more…]
You are invited to the AGM of the Grey Lynn Residents Association. All Grey Lynners are very welcome, so please invite your neighbours too!
Come along to find out what your committee has been doing to… [Read more…]
You are invited to attend the annual Grey Lynn Residents Association AGM as follows…
When: 7:30 pm Monday 30 November 2015
Where: Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn (edit: now at Grey Lynn RSA, Francis St, Grey Lynn) [Read more…]
The discovery of [Read more…]
This Tuesday (8th July), Grey Lynn residents and organisations attended the Waitemataa Board meeting re proposed 7-storey development at 367-375 Great North Road, Grey Lynn.
The Waitemataa Local Board passed the motion on the spot to call for full public notification. WLB chair Shale Chambers said it was the first time the board had ever [Read more…]
A male Queensland fruit fly was found in an MPI trap in Tuarangi Rd, Grey Lynn on 18 February. It is the 4th Queensland fruit fly to be found in northern New Zealand since 2012.
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) staff have set up a big network of traps to find out whether a breeding population of fruit flies is in the area. Laboratory staff will analyse hundreds of kilograms of fruit checking for the presence of fruit fly larvae.
The fruit fly is most likely to have entered New Zealand as an egg or larva (maggot) inside a piece of illegally imported fruit.
Controlled area rules…
When: 13 December 2014 from 12:00 midday to 3:00pm.
Where: Grey Lynn Library
Cost: Free
Come along and celebrate Grey Lynn Library’s 90th birthday!
It’ll be a fun afternoon with entertainment and activities for the whole family, including live music, readings by authors and poets, children’s games and art activities, and a birthday cake!
The Grey Lynn residents Association has its first birthday AGM coming up at 7pm on Tuesday the 19th of August 2014.
Where: The Oval Room at Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road.
We’ll be voting in a new committee and would love to see you there.
Auckland Council’s planned sweeping reforms of the sale of alcohol via off- and on-licence premises are contained in its Draft Local Alcohol Policy. This will have an impact on Grey Lynn and right across the city. It reduces the hours during which bottle stores and supermarkets can sell alcohol and also the opening and closing hours of cafes, restaurants and bars. It also initially freezes, and later will restrict, the opening of new off-licence premises.
Grey Lynn – The date, time and location of the second AGM of the GLRA is about to be announced.
On the agenda is the election of new committee members due to the rotation of 4 committee members. Contact Grey Lynn Residents Association (http://greylynnresidents.org.nz/contact) if you are keen to stand for election or otherwise put your name forward as an appointed committee member.
Public service is the tax we pay for our place in our community. Here is your chance to serve the most liveable suburb in the most liveable city in Aotearoa. Get involved!
We all know Grey Lynners love a good coffee, but just how many cafes do we really need? The new owners of 311 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, have put in a resource consent application to Auckland Council to develop a 60-seat licensed café and coffee roastery on the site currently occupied by The Little Grocer. The site is zoned Residential 1, single dwelling, (this status is retained under the Unitary plan), and is surrounded by family homes.
A cottage-industry style “corner store” or diary has served the community from the front few rooms of the residential villa on the site for nearly 100 years. Most recently, the lovely Alia of The Little Grocer has continued this tradition on a scale that is loved by locals in the area.
Hi GLRA members, subscribers and interested parties,
Apologies for this long-overdue update on the work that the GLRA has been doing over the past few months. We have been busy out and doing, but are currently looking for the help of a communications volunteer to keep us up to date with news of our activities. Please get in touch if you are able to help.
Newsletter contents:
Notified Unitary Plan – update on new zoning (some up-zoning, some down-zoning from Draft Unitary Plan)
Proposed electoral boundary changes could split Grey Lynn in two
The future of Grey Lynn Park
Grey Lynn needs assessment
Arch Hill fundraising movie night
Arch Hill vs Bunnings update
GLRA New Year event
Hello Grey Lynn Residents Association Members,
It’s been a very busy first few months for the GLRA committee. While Liz Hancock laboured away on our incredibly impressive submission on the Draft Unitary Plan, ably assisted by the DUP subcommittee of Tania Mace, Graeme Dunster and Richard Dunbar, we requested a series of meetings with people who we felt needed to hear our concerns.
First up was addressing the Waitemata Board via its public open-forum session, and then a meeting with the MP for Auckland Central Nikki Kaye. That was followed a couple of weeks later with a meeting with Labour list MP Jacinda Adern. Both Nikki and Jacinda were very attentive to our concerns about the negative impact of intensification on our neighbourhood if it’s carried out with a one- size-fits-all approach that damages Grey Lynn’s heritage fabric and our village way of life. Both could see the need to have meaningful local input into the future face of Grey Lynn.
Well done Grey Lynn. The Auckland Council received the following number of submissions:
Click here () for a copy of the Auckland Council letter responding to the GLRA LGOIMA request.
Dear Arch Hill residents and friends of Arch Hill…
Come to the meeting of YOUR COMMUNITY on
Monday July 15th at 7.30 pm
Auckland Trades Hall, 170 Great North Road, Arch Hill/Grey Lynn
The meeting will be an introduction to the Arch Hill Residents association and WE NEED YOU to be a part of this.
