On October 2 last year, Mt Albert Inc stepped into the online world with stories trying to fulfil a promise to deliver local news, information and backgrounders the Herald and Central Leader had long since abandoned.
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Mt Albert Grammar School has drawn a line in the sand over the aquatic centre – it wants it gone in as little as two years, putting huge pressure on Auckland Council to settle on a replacement site.
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Cars could be banned on the mountain before Christmas. Work begins next Monday to turn the top of Owairaka/Te Ahi-kā-a-Rakataura into a car-free zone and the plan is to introduce a new visitor car park and toilet block beside the main entrance, with an automated gate at the start of the loop road. The present…
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The Mt Albert town centre is about to get the splashes of colour that didn’t make the cut in the much-maligned upgrade. Putting aside the ongoing traffic issues, the starkness of the streetscape has drawn most of the local criticism since the upgrade was “opened” in May. The pocket park on the north-eastern corner of…
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Peter Whitehead would probably have been embarrassed at all the fuss – a modest, hard-working student given a lasting place in the school that helped to shape his life.
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Even the mighty and powerful cannot budge Auckland Transport from its conviction that the village upgrade has been successful.
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As the steps to reshape Chamberlain Park edge closer, a central question remains: does this area of Auckland really need the extra sports fields provided for in the development plan?
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No, Auckland Transport hasn’t changed its mind – there’ll be no ban on right-hand turns from Asquith Ave into New North Rd.
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Auckland Council is marching ahead with its plan to open up potentially hundreds of supercity parks, reserves and parking areas to freedom campers – and Mt Albert is right in the firing line.
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The international stage has got in the way of Jacinda Ardern’s hopes to front Auckland Transport executives for their side of the story on the Mt Albert town centre upgrade. The Prime Minister – and the MP for Mt Albert – asked her staff to set up a meeting over community concerns with the upgrade,…
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is putting on her local hat and convening a meeting with Auckland Transport to discuss community concerns over the Mt Albert town centre upgrade.
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The Chamberlain Park re-development is close to a start, with Auckland Council likely to hear the initial resource consent application within the next few weeks. Consents are needed before work can begin on stage one of the overall plan by the Albert Eden Local Board to cut the golf course from 18 holes to nine…
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