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Three days to go. Three days until we make another stand. Jack Barlow, 16, is a year-13 student at Western Springs College, and spokesperson for School Strike 4 Climate Auckland.   ‘As a country, we are absolutely not doing enough to address the climate crisis. We need to put pressure on our Government to go harder and faster when it comes to climate action. We've seen what happens when we show bravery and leadership in the face of one crisis, with COVID-19. Our strikes put an unavoidable onus on the Labour Government to take charge in this crisis, and show proper leadership,' says

Lack-of-parking peril By PHILIP CHANDLER A major Queenstown landlord claims the council’s threatening the CBD’s viability by not replacing carparking lost in pending major roading projects. Westwood Group Holdings’ Tony Butson says about 364 parks in the greater downtown area — or about 25% — will be permanently lost due to the arterial and CBD enhancement projects. Further parking will be lost during construction, he adds. In his submission on council’s application to construct a CBD bypass — from Melbourne Street to the Queenstown-Glenorchy Road intersection — Butson tells t...

Mountain Scene February 26, 2021 It’s shaping up to be a doggone pawfect day. Saturday — and Queenstown’s Matakauri Park — is going to the dogs as Queenstown’s council holds a community dog walk, though having a pooch to accompany you isn’t a prerequisite for taking part. City Hall media man Jack Barlow says the event will start at 10am at the northern end of Matakauri Park, beside Gorge Road, next to the community gardens.     From there K9s will take their owners on a W-A-L-K around the park, accompanied by council’s animal control staff, who can help with an...

Mountain Scene By TRACEY ROXBURGH Queenstown’s council says demolition of the Queenstown Memorial Centre won’t happen until an alternative venue is secured. City Hall’s applied to the government for resource consent and a notice of requirement for its arterials project under the Covid-19 Recovery (fast-track consenting) Act 2020 after  that project, and the Queenstown CBD upgrade, secured $85 million in government funding. The council’s applied to the government for consent and to authorise construction and use of an urban arterial route from Melbourne Street to the i...

Council U-turn By GUY WILLIAMS A Shotover Street businessman’s relieved Queenstown’s council has seen sense and removed a CCTV-monitored taxi stand outside his store. In August, Asian Mart owner Tau Su accused the council of ‘‘trading us like a milky cow’’ over the number of fines his customers were getting for parking outside the store after 6pm, when a loading zone reverted to a taxi stand. The customers, many of them from out of town, were getting pinged $40 for stopping briefly to drop off passengers or to get out of traffic to look for a legal park. Su says the taxi stand, ca...