Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Gabrielle
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
1y ago
 What’s the difference between Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Gabrielle? The answer is: wind speed and air pressure. But apart from that, what happened in Hawkes Bay in those deluges around the time of Gabrielle is a carbon copy, already for-shadowed, by what Cyclone Debbie did to Edgecumbe in 2017. I visited New Orleans 13 years after Katrina and many low-lying parts of the city were still ..read more
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Water: Sense and Sensibility
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
2y ago
I write on 3 Water Reform - again unpublished by NZ Herald - as a former Auckland Councillor and Regional Councillor now Mangawhai resident. This post focuses on the idea of co-governance.... After decades of immersion in Auckland’s centralised and old-school water, wastewater and stormwater solutions, I have found Mangawhai’s evolving approach liberating, receptive to new ideas, and locally ..read more
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Commercial Bay in a COVID context
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
4y ago
A few days before official opening it was all go in the covered laneway that runs between Lower Queen Street and Lower Albert Street, and is where Queen Elizabeth Square used to be. The public space is coming together - and those of us who walk through there each day to and from work will breath a sigh of relief. And look forward to other parts of this massive project to come to a conclusion ..read more
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Auckland Water Shortages and Watercare
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
4y ago
It seems like yesterday to me, but 1994 was a long time ago. Auckland had a much bigger water crisis than we're experiencing now. At the time Watercare was owned by the Auckland Regional Services Trust (ARST), having been put there after a hefty dose of central government driven local government restructuring. Parts of Auckland local government services were privatised - including its landfills ..read more
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When does Tiny House need Building Permit?
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
4y ago
This two story Tiny House was towed to this residential site in Mangawhai a couple of weeks ago, and since then the owner has been systematically preparing it so he and his partner can live in it part-time. The planning question this sort of activity poses is when does such a development require a Building permit? I'm interested in your views please. Use the comment facility of the blog to ..read more
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Submission Kaipara District Council Plan Change 78 Mangawhai Central
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
4y ago
According to Kaipara District Council website information: Private Plan Change 78 (PPC78) was lodged on 3 December 2019 by Mangawhai Central Limited. PPC78 seeks to rezone 130ha of land contained within the Estuary Estates Structure Plan of the operative Kaipara District Plan 2013 (the District Plan), PPC78 area comprises of 83 Molesworth Drive, and Lots 1 and 4 DP 314200 Old Waipu Road ..read more
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NZ's Covid-19 Truth is Hiding Behind Numbers
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
5y ago
Science and Sensibility Long ago, in my post graduate studies and my London based operations research working career I did a lot of computer modelling of scientific systems, and built computer models. The study of Pandemics relies heavily on computer modelling. I've done some reading and produced this piece which is a contribution to New Zealand's Covid-19 public policy debate.... Each day ..read more
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Resilient Cities need Balanced Capital Investment
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
5y ago
The impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic are still being understood, but it seems clear that this crisis will force changes in cities, physically and socially, that will echo for generations. Central and Local Government institutions are rolling out short term economic relief packages across New Zealand. A strategy of road and rail “shovel ready” development projects is under consideration ..read more
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Who is Auckland's CBD for?
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
5y ago
COVID19 is like no other disruption we’ve seen in a lifetime. A gift from hell considering its dramatic and universal impact on human health. A gift from god considering the opportunities opened up as governments, communities and people have rapidly adapted. Lockdown has provided unprecedented opportunity to reflect on what we do, and how we live, particularly in cities. It has focussed as ..read more
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Missing the Point - Moving the Port
Reflections on Auckland Planning by Joel Cayford
by Joel Cayford
5y ago
For a good while now, NZ Herald has been publishing opinions about Auckland's port, and when, where, if, and how it might be moved. Its opinion writer of the year, Simon Wilson, can't let the story go. But much of the coverage doesn't properly explain this very big public policy issue. I'll try and explain my reasoning below, using Simon's article from today's NZ Herald. But first a little ..read more
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