Published 4 March 2010 North Shore City Council has reached agreement with the Auckland Transition Agency to allow the disposal of the former council works depot in Albany and apply the funds to legacy community projects. Mayor Andrew Williams said yesterday the agreement meant numerous community projects were in line to be accelerated: “The […]
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Shore council withdraws “cash in lieu” parking levy
Published 17 February 2010 The North Shore City Council has withdrawn the district plan rules that required cash payments where businesses could not satisfy parking standards. Plan change 11, known as the ‘cash in lieu of parking’ rule, enabled developers or business operators who didn’t comply with onsite parking rules in town centres to […]
Read more →North Shore rates up 6.4%
Published 12 March 2009 North Shore City Council approved its 15-year draft city plan for consultation last Friday. It also proposed an average rates increase of 5.9% for the next financial year, plus 0.5% for the new Auckland regional amenities levy. The council said rates for an average-value residential property would rise by $116, […]
Read more →Getting the oil on the good councillors of North Shore, and why ratepayers should cough up 5.9%
Published 12 February 2009 I really ought to get back for a day in a North Shore City Council meeting, despite the severe attack of nausea which overcomes me at such a thought. Why drop in? To see if the council really is doing what it claims here: “North Shore City Council is making sure […]
Read more →Shore council aims for 15-year plan, then focuses on next week
Published 13 November 2008 North Shore City Council has extended its long-term plan to 15 years – out to 2024 – but mayor Andrew Williams issued a release today saying: “The current world & local economic outlook is top of mind for city councillors & senior council staff.” The release is platitudinous, about a […]
Read more →North Shore to cut rates rise with new treasury policy
Published 14 January 2008 North Shore City Council will have a new treasury management policy to consider in February, enabling the council to cut the proposed rates increase from 8.4% to 5.9% The council agreed just before Christmas to consult on the new debt management policy, which will enable debt to be repaid over […]
Read more →New Shore mayor outlines views on touchy subjects, and a new deputy mayor
Published 26 October 2007New North Shore mayor Andrew Williams put 6 touchy subjects on the agenda of the city council’s inaugural post-election meeting last night, deferred them but then gave his views anyway. Those subjects, on which discussion was deferred until the first business meeting of the council on Friday 9 November at 9.30am, were: […]
Read more →Shore wants 7.4% rates rise
Published 20 March 2007 North Shore City Council has proposed a 7.4% average rate increase for 2007-08. Mayor George Wood said the increase was to pay for major new assets and maintain the city’s services. It also includes museum & MOTAT levies. “More than half of every rates dollar goes to continue progress in areas […]
Read more →Wood to stand again, talks about challenges for the city
Published 19 January 2007 North Shore mayor George Wood said on Wednesday he would stand for a fourth term this year. In his address to the Birkenhead Rotary Club, Mr Wood covered a wide range of developments that have occurred in the city over the past decade, and an outlook focused on transport, infrastructure, who […]
Read more →Baggage control system exporter wins Shore business award
Published 1 September 2006 Enterprise North Shore & Westpac Bank handed out 13 business excellence awards and added 2 locals to the North Shore Business Hall of Fame last night. The 2 inducted into the hall of fame were Emerald Group Holdings Ltd founder & managing director Diane Foreman and former Mainzeal Group Ltd chairman […]
Read more →Councils agree Techscape sale in principle
Published 12 August 2006 North Shore and Waitakere City Councils have approved, in principle, the sale of their respective 50% shareholdings in Techscape Ltd. The sale is subject to the satisfactory negotiation & completion of contractual documentation with Bilfinger Berger Services NZ Ltd. The sale decision follows a public tender. Techscape has been a contractor to both cities since […]
Read more →Shore revises bylaws on trading in public areas and signs
Published 25 May 2006 North Shore City Council has revised 2 bylaws affecting trading in public spaces & temporary signs. Permits will be required from 1 July for a range of activities covered by the trading in public places bylaw, including outdoor cafés & street trading activities on public land. The council’s senior environmental protection […]
Read more →Shore council plans to fine rubbish delinquents
Update 25 May 2006 (the fine, bottom of story) Published 25 May 2006 North Shore City Council plans to start fining businesses which ignore the city’s rubbish collection timetable. The council’s waste minimisation team leader, Bradley Nolan, said rubbish & recycling continued to be put out on the wrong day in some commercial areas, and […]
Read more →Shore council puts LIM applications online
Published 13 May 2006 North Shore City Council has introduced online applications & payments for LIMs (land information memorandums), with a secure credit card payment system and an automated step-by-step process. North Shore City Council’s spatial information systems manager, Kumar Kannan, said the property business operated 7 days/week, so offering LIM applications online supports […]
Read more →Big turnout for launch of North Shore business awards
Published 23 March 2006 Organisers of the 2006 Westpac Enterprise North Shore business excellence awards are confident of getting record entries after more than 150 people turned out last night for the launch party. The awards are in 12 categories. Entries close on Thursday 15 June, finalists will be announced by Friday 29 July and […]
Read more →Enterprise North Shore chief puts business requirements for growth
Published 19 March 2006 How do you grow if you don’t spend? How do your businesses grow if governance costs too much? North Shore City Council is proposing to increase rates by an average 8.9% next financial year and an average of 7.1%/year over the 10-year city plan. Enterprise North Shore wants infrastructure to be […]
Read more →Shore council shifts $412,000 more into tourism budget
Published 15 March 2006 North Shore City Council’s strategic management committee voted an extra $412,000 to its tourism budget yesterday, a move questioned by some councillors for its unplanned nature. The majority supported a motion from Cllr Mike Tafua that $150,000 be shifted from the economic development budget & $262,000 come from the council’s forecast […]
Read more →Teeming with ideas for Shore business growth
Published: 15 March 2005 Every 6 months Enterprise North Shore tells the Shore city council what a wonderful job it’s doing. It creates links & networks and, at heart, it expands business opportunity. Fine as a business story, but this group of BD Central websites is, at its core, either about property or has property […]
Read more →7% average rise proposed for Shore rates
Published: 26 February 2005 North Shore City Council has proposed a 7% average rates increase for the next financial year to pay for new assets and maintain existing services. Mayor George Wood said the city’s fast growth increased demand on services & facilities. The proposed rates rise is 6.79% plus 0.2% for the Auckland War […]
Read more →Holmes gets strategy chair at Shore council
North Shore City councillors elected Cllr Gary Holmes as the chairman of the newly named strategic management committee – the council’s main policy-driving committee – tonight. Cllr Holmes chaired the regulatory & hearings committee for the 2nd half of the last council term. The newly named policy committee, of which all councillors are members, was […]
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