Oratia Themed Playground Official Opening!
Oratia featured on Short Walks in Auckland
Oratia featured as a great place for a walk on Short Walks in Auckland at walksinauckland.com ” Oratia Stream Loop At last! Beautiful blue skies and sunshine. A perfect Fathers Day. And of course, a perfect day for a walk. We decided to check out the Oratia Twin Streams walk and cycleway to see if […]
Parrs Park – Update on that Awesome Playground
Incoming from Auckland Council today…. Open date for the playground is the 27th of this month with face painting, balloons, free BBQ etc. You will see signage up at the park soon Upgrade of the no 2 field starting Monday 15th September. They’ll start off with getting the new irrigation in and the sand slits, […]
Oratia – Apple of your eye
We’re Featured in the Herald! A snippet below and full story here. NZ Herald: Oratia beauty really sums up this great family friendly place with its many laid-back features, writes Hannah Sperber. NEED TO KNOW Project Twin Streams’ Oratia walk and cycleway is next to 102 Parrs Cross […]
16k Surprise for Oratia
Edit: This project was in the Agenda but was not approved . It was deferred. 8/9/14 Well there was sweet little in this years budget for Oratia , except an unexpected surprise win of $16.5 k for Oratia’s Kaurimu Stream Restoration. (The stream that runs along by the Oratia Bowling club.) Apparently there is a group […]
City Rail Link would be Great for Oratia
Award Winning Rural Landscape Design
Thought this was worth sharing.This award-winning overseas lanscape design is a particularly good example of a pool well-integrated into it’s natural rural landscape. Love the rural pool fencing option. The project also featured a rill watercourse filtered through a native garden to deal with the Stormwater. Lots of good ideas for those planning a pool or some […]
Good Support for Oratia and Glen Eden in Draft Plan
Draft Annual Plan submissions are now public and can be viewed here. There was good support for Glen Eden and Oratia development. And for those who opposed the projects there were most often no reasons given. Budget was one concern. But the budgets are minimal compared to the expenditures elsewhere in our local board, both those project budgets detailed in the plan, […]
Auckland Transport – You Beauties
The Oratia Bus Stop across from the school, was worn with its paint falling off.. Logged a quick online complaint with Auckland Transport “Do It Online” and 2 days later a nice man with a paint roller is there tidying it up. Dead easy! Thanks -Auckland Transport – You Rock!
Making a Unitary Plan Presentation – This could be worth a watch.
Judge Kirkpatrick Takes the Stand At the EDS Conference 2014 Part One of a two part look at the developing processes around the Unitary Plan Hearing Commission. Environment Judge David Kirkpatrick takes the stand to explain the role and work of the Commission. JUDGE DAVID KIRKPATRICK David was sworn in as an Environment Judge on […]