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30 July 2010
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A future at stake
Vector Wellington Orchestra, Wellington Town Hall, July 24, 7.30pm, reviewed…
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In your dreams
At the movies with Dan Slevin I was really enjoying Inception until…
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Great culinary experience
LAST week there were two events that celebrated how beer can have a place at…
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Are there moose loose aboot the hoose?
A (nearly) Complete History of the Moose in New Zealand by Ken Tustin, Halcyon…
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Sport Talk
How can anyone lose to Australia?
28 July 2010
THERE are some mad buggers in Nelson who believe the US Government is part…
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According to Doyle
Cut to the chase!!!
28 July 2010
THERE’S nothing like a horn in your ear to get your heart pumping. That goes…
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Wine Press
Dynamite wine
28 July 2010
YEARS ago I passed a vineyard way up north. I was on my way to Ahipara…
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According to Doyle
Re Joyce! We’re outa here!
21 July 2010
BASTILLE Day always brings out the best. On 14 July 1789, a mob “stormed the…
Building heights
Stories
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Hilton no icon
A Hilton Hotel on the Outer T would contradict development plans for the waterfront, and the Resource Management Act, says the Wellington Civic Trust. The Trust told the resource consent hearing last week that it undercuts the Wellington Waterfront Framework,… Continue
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Hello Hilton, goodbye lunchtime sport
SPORTY Wellingtonians are gearing up to fight for their venue. Shed One, which has become a popular indoor sports venue, will go when the Hilton Hotel is built on the outer T at Queen’s Wharf. Save our Sport (SOS) is a group formed to retain Shed One as… Continue
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District Plan a sham says watchdog
A community watchdog says the Wellington City District Plan might as well be thrown away. The council’s continual granting of exemptions to the District Plan is alarming says Di Buchan, spokesperson for the Wellington Civic Trust. "We are becoming increasingly… Continue
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Gamesmanship
THE Wellington City Council appears powerless to stop developers manipulating the resource consent system. On October 13, Capital Times revealed that Buckingham Asset Management (BAM) already had plans to build an 18-storey building on the former site of… Continue
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Anger over height limits
RESIDENTS of Oriental Bay are upset that council officers approved the construction of a building exceeding the area’s height limit while in mediation with various residents’ groups over the issue. Monastery Escarpment Protection Group spokesperson Gael Webster… Continue
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Upper limits
Community groups are up in arms over repeated exemptions being granted to developers to build above the guidelines in the District Plan. In the wake of an Environment Court decision upholding another exemption for an over-height building, Aaron Watson discovers… Continue
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