Harbour dishrack, possibly real inspiration for design

I've always thought "cockle shells" was a retrofit explanation designed to impress councillors eager to spend up large on Visions - infrastructure can wait, eh.

Maggie McCormick that moment i thought they were bench of dishes

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  Mike Cooper Kinda like this
  
   
  
  According to the sales pitch its design is relevant to Dunedin's Harbour because it references cockles.
  Cockles?
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  Mussels possibly, old bleached shells. That's the best fit for the shapes in the design. Or tuatua, toheroa, pipi. But cockles - pfooey! Pull the other one.
  
  
  
  

  

Cable car project is making good progress

Dunedin steampunks feel right at home on restored cable cars in Mornington. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

Stunning effort. From the start this has been a grand vision which unlike too many of the over-talked under-thought "Vision$$$" was carefully assessed from all angles before being presented to Dunedin people. Without hype, without extravagant promises of profits flowing into every corner of town, Phil Cole told us how he thought it could be done. Step by step, each step providing a usable asset that could stand alone till money was raised for the next step.

 From http://www.dunedincablecars.co.nz/history.html :
 The initial impetus for the present project came after the launch of Don McAra’s book Hold Very Tight Please! in 2007; Don has been instrumental in the restoration and return of the cars now in Dunedin. A website from 2008 documents progress at that time, and also provides a gallery of Don's paintings:
 dunedintrams.co.nz/donsbook.htm. 
In 2013, the cause was taken up by Phil Cole, who brought engineering expertise to the table; tragically, he died, at the peak of his career, in 2014.
The reins were then picked up by Neville Jemmett, who has been the driving force behind the building of the Interim Cable Car Building, and the bringing to Dunedin of the cable cars previously stored (and lovingly restored) at Ferrymead. 







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From the ODT, full article  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/cable-car-house-opens-mornington

Saturday, 31 August 2019

Cable car house opens in Mornington

By Jono Edwards

 

Hundreds of spectators turned out in Mornington this morning to see historic Dunedin cable cars emerge from their new home.

• Cable car book offers glimpse of yesteryear 

Bagpipers set the tone as two restored cable cars - Roslyn number 95 and Mornington trailer 111 - were rolled out of the shed for the crowd to look through.
It also marked the beginning of fundraising for the next stage of the project, expected to cost $6 million to 8 million.

Dunedin Heritage Light Rail Trust chairman Neville Jemmett (left) and member Stuart Payne, both of Dunedin, display an artist’s impression of the proposed cable car house and museum building in Mornington Park. PHOTO: SHAWN MCAVINUE

 

 

Thursday, 29 August 2019

Waterfront plan cut back call by climate group

By Chris Morris

Plans for Dunedin's waterfront development should be scaled back in favour of a greater focus on the city, and the world's, climate emergency, the Seniors' Climate Action Network says.
The call came from Dunedin network representative Donna Peacock as she addressed councillors during the public forum at this week's Dunedin City Council meeting.

The project was not in line with a focus on minimising harm to the environment, and the associated spending - whether debt-funded or from the Provincial Growth Fund - could be put to better uses, she argued....... https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/waterfront-plan-cut-back-call-climate-group

From Facebook:

• DCC staff countered saying the waterfront plan was designed to accommodate predicted sea-level rise over the next 50 years, and sustainability is part of the vision.

  

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    Paul Allan Symons It’s a flop, they can not get a building permit and yet raise the money for the construction, another big stupid idea from muppets
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• Victor Billot There is a complete disconnect here. It is obvious to any rational person that the coming decades are going to be massively challenging at best. The focus has to be on planning for this and future proofing our infrastructure and basic services.
  Instead we are on some quest to compete with Dubai or something, to appeal to whom?


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  Dave Smith It's an AWESOME project and Dunedin needs it!... Our Harbour is so under-utilised and could be used for so much more but you need to invest to get investment returns.


• Lisa Yonker It's cos its bloody freezing down there even on the hottest day. I would never want to go to Steamer Basin to hang out


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  Dave Smith well, some of us scuba dive it.. some of us wind surf it.. some of us swim in it and soon.. some of us will golf in it... Maybe it's not as bad as you think? ;)

   

  Mark Jamieson We don't NEED it....you WANT it....if you had to pay for it I bet you wouldn't. And what about what future generations "Need" not bloody debt thats for sure.


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  Dave Smith Mark Jamieson I guess it all comes down to if we want a progressive city or a city that's laden in old decrepit buildings...
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  Hanna Lin Dave Smith Spending money on development that is mostly decorative doesn't sound progressive to me.
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  Dave Smith Hanna Lin Unique architecture is in it's own right a tourist attraction... It's a good looking building, and buildings bring money.. take the train station.. the most photographed building in the southern hemisphere.. take the Sydney opera house.. many people travel just to see it... Decorative = attractive = tourism interest...
 
 
• Kerry Stewart Such a not a good time to do this. Rates a far out of control now and if you think this type of project will be on budget I think you need to wake up and get a taste of reality.

   

  Lyndon Weggery Kerry Stewart - meanwhile we are still waiting for Hon. Shane Jones to come up with central government funding from the PGF.
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  Sandy Price Just leave the harbourside productive businesses alone!

  
  
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  Sarah Ellison Would they just fix what needs to be fixed before spending any money on fantasy vanity projects please. I pay my rates to get value for my money and I am afraid that it's not really happening at present.

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  Lyndon Weggery Speaking from a South Dunedin perspective it would be helpful for Nicola Penfield to tell us what are the official sealevel rise projections in the next 50 years given there was no cause for alarm given by Sue Bidrose at the recent South Dunedin Community Hui.


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  Ken McHoull Lyndon Weggery After a $60000 rise Bidrose will make herself known, never heard of any of her accomplishments, what are they?
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• Lisa Yonker They were all in the article about her pay rise actually, along with the fact she tried to decline the money, saying it was unfair to other council staff

  
  

  
  
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  Jared Smith I also think it looks quite extravagant.

  
  
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• John Fridd Not many people know that what's being planned is a new Atlantis. They build it, then the sea rises and drowns it and hey presto - a new tourist attraction!

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• Sophie Read Someone please fix up Rattray st! It looks so manky!


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  Dave Smith It does I agree.. but they are private buildings and nothing to do with the DCC.

  
  

  Richard M K Lewis (SCAN) Almost spelt out SCAM. Hilarious though that they have a facebook page...must mean they use technology. Hypocrites!
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• Rachel J Page Regardless of climate change. Do we really need this debt right now? There's a lot to be fixed and built with out monuments being added.


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  Ben Blackmore Rachel J Page how often are we likely to get a subsidy for this type of thing from the government? Do you think National will stump up with anything?


• Rachel J Page I would love for it to go ahead. I am just concerned as a ratepayer. 
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  JanferieSefo Kelekolio Lol where did the houses go on the peninsular?? This could be millions of dollars under water if what they are saying about rising sea waters is going to happen...... Maybe they should make a giant see thru bubble that you could go down into look under water and ontop of water....??
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  Darrin Evans Bet it doesn’t go ahead with such a proactive council like Dunedin has.


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• Ted McArthur never mind climate emergencies, what about the impending alien invasion? Zombie Apocalypse? Unicorn extinction? JUST BUILD IT, FFS


• Victor Billot Sigh.
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  Alex Mcewan Here comes the anti Dunedin progress brigade.

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• Jared Smith I hate progress almost as much as I hate that bridge


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  Alex Mcewan Jared Smith then you can help fall even further behind and be even more stuck in the past.the harbour basin is embarrassing .I love the new idea



• Alex Mcewan Robyn Dennison I love it Robyn I think it will be good for Dunedin the teeth on Portsmouth drive are ugly.



• Lisa Yonker The bridge alone will cost at least $450 per rates houeshold. I would love to know what return people think they are getting for that $450 exactly



• Alicia Frost I love the design its lovelyand enhances the harbour regardless. I think it will help the city boom even more than it is
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• Mark Jamieson As much as I hate this water front development ... I have to point out that there IS no climate emergency, there is no global warming problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lgKjvAqt4
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• Maire Bouman Morgan No surprises there...all the climate dogooders come out in protest and put a stop to any progress in Dunedins development....looks like we are stuck with Hogwarts! Would be nice if they at least upgraded public transportation....the stinky black smoke blowing diesel monsters are polluting the ozone!

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"Tosswill Towers" - 5-star hotel, Moray Pl car park

Saturday, 24 August 2019

Developer has rivals for site

By Chris Morris

Tekapo businessman Anthony Tosswill has been trying to win support for his hotel and apartment project, to be built on the Moray Pl car park site, since unveiling plans for a 17-storey tower in 2016.

...  Mr Tosswill now faced competition from other possible developers to use the site....

...Council chief executive Sue Bidrose, contacted this week, said she did not know what Mr Tosswill's plans were, "but I do know there's other interest in the site"....

........Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford unveiled a proposed new strategy this week which would, if approved, allow the Government to direct councils to free up planning rules in some areas, including height restrictions.
Mr Cull, in a radio interview last week, said the failure to see a five-star hotel built in the city was one of the disappointments from his time as mayor.........

chris.morris@odt.co.nz

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  KeithMcC Sat, 24/08/2019 - 12:29pm #
 

If it is so important to get rid of the car park then DCC should be maximising return to ratepayers via an open public sale.
And as to Mr Culls disappointments, yeah well lets not really get started on our disappointment in him. A bloke who came to the mayoralty on the back of cutting costs and working for ratepayers. Well that didn't work out quite so well did it.

Waterfront vision - Ian Taylor in stadium-promoter mode

I'm getting an acute attack of the deja vu's, how about you?

 www.odt.co.nz/opinion/waterfront-bid-platform-future

Saturday, 6 April 2019

Waterfront bid a platform for future

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With deliberations around Dunedin's provincial growth fund application for the waterfront area reaching their final stages, Duendin businessman Ian Taylor addresses the importance of public debate being informed and factual. 

Ian Taylor

In the coming week the independent assessment panel for the provincial growth fund will meet to consider our application for the waterfront vision.

If the panel were to make its recommendation to Cabinet based on opinion pieces such as the recent offering from Dr Robert Hamlin, a lecturer in the University of Otago's marketing department, and others, we could rest safe in the knowledge that the decades of neglect that has been the hallmark of our waterfront would continue for decades to come.

Fortunately, the panel will be informed by an $820,000 feasibility study and business case paid for by the provincial growth fund.

That's a serious commitment by the Government, not only to our ratepayers, but also to all New Zealand taxpayers who are funding its $3 billion investment in the provinces.

If Dr Hamlin wants rigour in the debate, I can assure him we have had that in spades.

Prepared by independent consultants, the business case is a comprehensive commercial, structural, and environmental feasibility study that was presented to key government agencies in December last year.

Since then, the business case has been the subject of a rigorous evaluation process by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

Given the amount of investment we are seeking from the fund, and the competitive nature of applications from across the country, we would expect nothing less..................  

www.odt.co.nz/opinion/waterfront-bid-platform-future