In place of the Maritime Building we got this new building!
More of This !
Some of you will have forgotten what the maritime building was replaced with and some of you forgot to vote. With a 42 percent turnout at the last Council election we got more of this.The local paper said we needed to be protected from the Wellington City Council. How right it was but it should have added we also needed to be protected from ourselves. It was all said after the horse had bolted. Some people added that the media were complicit with their silence before the election. Others said the media were pro developer and deniers of the "inconvenient truth" of climate change. What do you think?
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posted by pepptalk at 4:55 PM
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Yes Brian,
This monstrosity is the work of the wanker Peter Kennedy who also is pretty keen to demolish Plimmer House to build shoebox apartments for students (all in the name of a quick profit). Personal mate of Prendergast so no probs with consents.
However, the historic Maritime building was demolished by Kennedy WITHOUT consent - oh dear me was it a historic building??? I didn't know. Nothing more than a slap on the wrist with a rolled up copy of the RMA.
Prendergast and her butt licking crony developers are trashing our city in the name of a profit.
The best thing we can do is get rid of her this election.
From: Burma Road Tyres [mailto:burmardtyres@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2007 2:07 p.m.
To: BRYAN PEPPERELL
Subject: MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST
1.BUILDINGS OF ARGUABLE MERIT NEW AND NOT SO NEW: One could understandably decry some of the questionable designs of the ongoing march of commercial/residential construction in and around our geographically beautiful City. Some alleged top ranking architects are adept at stamping their traditional signature by way of poles, pipes and canopies which no doubt are cheap, effective and require very minimal imagination; others embrace the walls of glass (rarely taking into account blinding reflections which are hazardous to vehicular traffic as evidenced along Jervios Quay and Aotea Quay in the morning !). Others, like the previous Govt.architects confine their fertile imagination to undoubtably strong but packing case, layer cake design. When the WCC approved the Wakefield Street Hotel Duxton design which is one of the most" blank- wall "unsympathetic constructions, coupled with the hotch potch WCC library and administrative block, now determines that almost anything is acceptable in terms of design with scant regard for the overall long term future of the face of our City. It even gets worse when one comes across corrugated iron cubes that deface the bottom area of Onslow Gorge,amongst others. But, that we must not stand in the way of "development at any price" is the theme unfortunately It is a pity that so many short term fixes for long term solutions overides many decisions made by central and local governments,severly impacting on the future. Wellington is one of the world's most unique cities in geographical,topographical and natural formations, which is gradually being despoiled by mediocre, cheap and inappropriate architectural sympathy for the uniqueness of greater Wellington's area.
2.THE GREAT VEHICLE USE DEBATE . WCC and the Regional Council and successive NZ Governments have to accept full responsibility for the ongoing excessive private vehicle user growth as well as the ongoing unnecessary increase of road freighter transport. A completely untruthful MP who represented the Labour government regarding NZ Rail, massive importation of non-conforming Euro spec (anti pollution etc) used vehicle throwaways from Asia, ongoing importation of used and past use- by date tyres, used agricultural equipment and internationally (Euro standards)unacceptable driving licence testing standards all contribute toward the 250 per cent of vehicle use in a short two decades.
Had NZ pulled together as a nation, had visionary politicians (refer to Sir Dove-Meyer Robinson who was one of those but scoffed at, laughed at and ignored (now who is laughing ?)regarding the nationwide roading and transport infrastructure we would have minimised the chaos evident today in NZ which is increasing almost daily. The only winner in the whole transport debacle is Tony Friedlander and his heavy haulage cronies who are determined to take over all freight throughout NZ force the motorist off the road and contribute nowhere near their destructive use of our totally inadequate roading system. If we had real action to provide in the metropolitan and accessable urban areas, a modern passenger transit system (instead of politicking politicians) ,and an efficient rail freight system futureproofed, priced, managed and reliable we may go somewhere toward commonsense regarding NZ's transport infrastructural needs. This in only a small part of my discussion viewpoint.
regards VRYN EVANS
There's considered a shortage of apartment blocks in Wellington for the demand, so developers are itching to put up spaces.
I'm afraid that with NZ child abuse, police rapes etc. heritage preservation isn't high on the voting public's agenda.
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