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A plan for Kerikeri
This evening Vision Kerikeri Chaiman, Rod Brown, presented an overview of the issues that are critical to maintaining and enhancing the...
Cliff Mail
Nov 23, 20161 min read


Public Meeting: What do WE want for Kerikeri?
More charm or growing disarray? What do we as residents want for the ongoing development of Kerikeri? Vision Kerikeri is holding a public...
Cliff Mail
Nov 8, 20161 min read


Access to the outdoors needs to be considered as part of infrastructure
A recent article on the Walking Access Commissions website deals with an issue that impacts on most of us, especially here in the...
Cliff Mail
Oct 19, 20161 min read


Government, Business, Me, You: We all need to act to reduce carbon emissions - Starting Now!
I attended this year's EDS Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference, with Inge Bremer, as VKK delegates (at our own...
rolf
Oct 16, 20165 min read


Seen on the Web: 3 ways the RMA fails to protect the economy
At the end of September the Economic Defence Society of NZ (EDS) released an 84 page report titled "Evaluating the environmental outcomes...
Cliff Mail
Oct 10, 20161 min read


Do we want Kerikeri and Waipapa Roads to resemble Mill Lane in the future?
The current effects-based District Plan does not define land uses in the Rural Production Zone which applies to most of the land outside...
Rod Brown
Sep 25, 20163 min read


Elections 2016: Vision Kerikeri's questions to the candidates - and their responses.
Vision Kerikeri (VKK) recently posed a range of questions to the nine candidates seeking election to the Bay of Islands - Whangaroa Ward...
Rod Brown
Sep 18, 201631 min read


Seen on the web: Rumblings over sewage connection fee
Kerikeri residents will have to pay an annual fee of $1073 if they are in the area covered by the town's new sewerage scheme, whether...
Cliff Mail
Sep 9, 20161 min read


Effective traffic circulation for Kerikeri CBD: Background to issue
In my article of 18 August I raised the issue of an effective traffic circulation solution for Kerikeri. In response to a number of...
By Rod Brown
Sep 2, 20162 min read
