January 21, 2008
In case you were imagining that Andy Lowe is planning to build a just few condos on Ocean Beach, wake up! What his Hill Country is proposing to do, with the complicity – so far – of the Hastings Council, is build a small city at Ocean Beach … 1,000 homes is just the tip [...]
January 18, 2008
In early December BayBuzz published this article calling for “Water Champions” in the Bay. MP’s Craig Foss and Chris Tremain, for now, are out front in the race to claim this distinction. On Thursday, Foss and Tremain announced that they had spent the day as guests of the HB Regional Council on a field trip [...]
January 17, 2008
In a media release Wednesday, the Hastings District Council announced that the public submission period for Hill Country’s Ocean Beach private plan change will begin next Saturday, January 19, and continue until February 29. The release confirmed that Andy Lowe’s Hill Country development plan envisions up to 1,000 dwellings with associated commercial development. The public [...]
January 15, 2008
After spotting this company name on the side of a truck parked in Hastings yesterday, BayBuzz rang Quality Demolition’s managing director, Dwight Black, to nominate his company name as best oxymoron of 2008, and to ask how long it takes to wield a wrecking ball with finesse. “Contrary to popular belief, ours is a very [...]
January 14, 2008
Incensed at all the publicity Moko the Mahia dolphin is getting lately, Squirt the SplashPlanet watersaurus has challenged his (her?) bottlenose rival to an aquarian smackdown. “There’s just not enough room in Hawke’s Bay for two watery heroes, and clearly I have seniority,” sniffed Squirt. “People are driving hours to see that upstart show-off for [...]
January 11, 2008
Last time I looked, the Tukituki flowed a good ways through the Hastings District. You wouldn’t know that listening to the deafening silence from HDC Councillors on Tukituki pollution and water withdrawal issues. Here are their “positions” thus far: Mayor Yule: he’s mentioned water quality and availability in general as a sustainability issue … maybe [...]
January 10, 2008
Does Kevin Atkinson have any power (even if he weren’t left twisting in the wind)? Back in October, I had no idea on what criteria to base my votes for members of the HB District Health Board. Especially with respect to assessing incumbent members standing for re-election. After quite a bit of digging about, I [...]
- Andrew Reyngoud on DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme
- Margaret Donnelly on WATER. What's all the fuss about?
- Elizabeth Sisson on 'Dump Council' campaign
- Paul Bailey on Cows in Karamu Stream
- Rob Pharazyn on Cows in Karamu Stream
- John J Harrison on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Anne Parker on Let's get Council meetings online
- Stuart Nash on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Kylie Fowler on Let's get Council meetings online
- Paul Bailey on Let's get Council meetings online
- ‘Dump Council’ campaign
- Cows in Karamu Stream
- Questions for HB ‘regional study’ director
- Let’s get Council meetings online
- 5 mayors in HB … ‘Yeah right’ says Tui
- Crucial Environment Court hearing underway
- Regional Council warns on pollution standards
- Democracy in action?
- 1+1+1 = 3 hours
- Councils’ reorganization survey results
