Owners of scheduled trees on the North Shore are now entitled to a council rebate to help cover tree maintenance costs. In recognising the community benefits of these special trees, the council’s Strategy and Finance Committee recently allocated $50,000 to a one year trial to financially assist protected tree owners. The pilot scheme, which will [...]

Council has quotas in place for parking tickets

NSCC Controversy over recent claims by Local Government Minister  Rodney Hide that his reforms simply sail through Cabinet virtually unchallenged has turned the spotlight on the up-coming third Auckland Council bill, North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams said today. “Since the spectacle of Rodney Hide’s extraordinary claim that his papers to Cabinet sail through because his fellow ministers [...]

Press Release: North Shore City Council In a press release from the North Shore City Council, North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams believes the ‘u-turn’ on local government reform vindicates North Shore common sense. The government’s spectacular U-turn in dropping Rodney Hide’s crazy plans to gut local government services and starve community programmes of funding vindicates [...]

By John Grant A recent national TV advertising campaign featuring a creepy looking man and his spinning risk wheel is being brought to life on the North Shore to remind local drivers that ‘Bad Calls Can Be Deadly’ at intersections. 6 October marked the launch of a multi-agency educational and enforcement style road safety campaign that [...]

Another dog has died as the result of Sea Slug poisoning. This time it wasn’t on a North Shore beach but on the Thames coast line. During August and September, 15 dogs became unwell with symptoms consistent with tetrodotoxin (TTX) poisoning after eating sea slugs at Auckland beaches. Five of these dogs died. The Auckland [...]

By John Grant Mike Cohen, Chairperson of the Devonport Community Board took the opportunity to explain about proposed zoning changes for Navy land in and around Devonport, to a small group at a public meeting on Wednesday night. Mr Cohen explained that the changes including the zoning of areas of Navy land that had not [...]

By John Grant I was shocked to read the article in the North Shore Times Advertiser concerning the $400,000 spend on upgrading it’s web site. I had to have a double look at it to make sure it was for real. I then checked the date just to make sure it wasn’t April1. No it [...]