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Footpath comes at a price The path will run from Broadlands Drive to the golf club and community centre. Omaha is set to get a long-awaited 850-metre footpath along Omaha Drive next to the golf course, but the cost has blown out once again to nearly $870,000. The June meeting of Rodney Local Board heard that the $645,000 allocated from its transport targeted rate to the path in November would not be enough, as the lowest tender received by Auckland Transport (AT) in May was $775,626. With addi...

Rural board members reject one-off rates increase More than half of Auckland respondents and 70 per cent of those from Rodney did not support the Mayor’s proposed one-off five per cent rates rise and 10-year budget during recent public consultation. As a result, two Rodney Local Board members – Colin Smith from Wellsford and Warkworth’s Tim Holdgate – voted against supporting the five per cent increase at an extraordinary meeting to provide Local Board input on the budget on May 5. Mr S...

Viewpoint - Maintain the assetsBy: Tim Holdgate As Auckland Council embarks on the current consultation round for the 10-year (2021-2031) budget, a key message to Council from the wider Warkworth community must be to better maintain the assets we already have. Facing a massive $1 billion fiscal deficit over the next three years and having already slashed capital expenditure, Council has a further option to “sweat” or undermaintain existing assets further. Fine if present maintenance work wa...

Falls fuel fresh anger over Warkworth footpath hazards Saffron Schedewy-Johnson, right, feared her grandmother might die. Pat Schedewy shortly after the accident. Frustration over the state of Warkworth’s footpaths has again boiled to the surface after two women were hospitalised, following horrific trips and falls at the same place on Elizabeth Street within three days. And Rodney Local Board member Tim Holdgate, whose wife, Yvonne, suffered in one of the falls, says a botched repair job b...