Ten projects promoting Auckland's growth
New Zealand Herald
Not any more, thanks to the former Waitakere City Council. The council's Project Twin Streams aimed to provide a green corridor from bush to sea. The project has not only cleaned up the Opanuku Stream and neighbouring Oratia Stream, which both spill ...

Cornwallis ski access lane opposed
The Aucklander
What bewilders the residents is that they always had a good relationship with the former Waitakere City Council. On this matter, they say they weren't consulted, or heard by the new Auckland Council's officers. Bronwen Turner, a member of the ...

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E-grade kitchen faces fine
Auckland stuff.co.nz
Waitakere City Council introduced the food hygiene grading system in 2003. It brought it into line with other local authorities including Auckland city and Manukau. The scheme is still in place and all west Auckland food outlets have to be a graded.

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Cockroaches shut down Henderson restaurant
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Waitakere City Council introduced the food hygiene grading system in 2003. It brought it into line with other local authorities including Auckland city and Manukau. The scheme is still in place and all West Auckland food outlets have to be a graded.

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$19m Lopdell House plan backed
New Zealand Herald
Mr Bates said the trust was grateful to the former Waitakere City Council, which owned the building from 1983, for recommending the project to its successor for priority in the funding queue. "We are hopeful of getting $5 million to $6 million from the ...
$19m redevelopment of Titirangi's Lopdell House to start this yearScoop.co.nz (press release)

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$19m redevelopment of Titirangi's Lopdell House to start this year
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“We are enormously grateful, both to the former Waitakere City Council and Auckland Council, for the urgency and priority they have given to the project,” he says. “We intend to work in productive partnership with the council, the Portage Trust and ...

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Auckland's unsafe swimming spots
Auckland stuff.co.nz
''The Waitakere City Council had a programme to ensure all the septic tanks in the valley were also kept up to a high standard. But I would doubt if that has been maintained under the super-city. So it's vital that the local community helps to police ...

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Auckland's unsafe swimming spots
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''The Waitakere City Council had a programme to ensure all the septic tanks in the valley were also kept up to a high standard. But I would doubt if that has been maintained under the super-city. So it's vital that the local community helps to police ...

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Property pros join forces at Hobsonville Point
Voxy
Andrew spent 10 years with the Office of the Auditor-General Victoria, and in New Zealand he was Audit Manger with Audit New Zealand before joining the former Waitakere City Council in 1992, where he progressed to Director: Finance.

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Property Pros Join Forces at Hobsonville Point
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Andrew spent 10 years with the Office of the Auditor-General Victoria, and in New Zealand he was Audit Manger with Audit New Zealand before joining the former Waitakere City Council in 1992, where he progressed to Director: Finance. ...

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Culham Engineering goes arty
Northern Advocate
... builds bridges and runs a fleet of heavy-duty cranes has jumped at opportunities to manufacture complex steel artworks for Auckland clients, most recently five curved steel archways for the Waitakere City Council's Sturges Rd pedestrian bridge.

Taranaki Daily News
Fearless leader of a well-oiled festival team
Taranaki Daily News
This quickly turned to city librarian and after obtaining a business degree she got a job with Telecom in Wellington, which was followed by a role with the Waitakere City Council before she returned home to Napier and a job at a small IT company.

Battle to subdivide Henderson land
The Aucklander
Mr and Mrs Vitasovich want to subdivide their land and are seeking rights from the council, the same the same rights they sought from the defunct Waitakere City Council for 20 years. When they bought their property in 1972, there was a proposed road ...

Fears over increase in rubbish dumping
The Aucklander
He says that when the Waitakere City Council stopped free inorganic collections in 2008 and moved to a pre-booked collection service, the society warned it would lead to more dumping - and it did. Auckland Council's manager of infrastructure and ...

Auckland Council debt for Singapore
Interest.co.nz
... of eight councils in the Auckland region, - the Auckland Regional Council, Auckland City Council, Franklin District, Manukau City Council, North Shore City Council, Papakura District Council, Rodney District Council and Waitakere City Council. ...

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Community board head calls for brothel ban
New Zealand Herald
Only the Waitakere City Council defined and regulated brothel locations in its district plan. Other councils' plans regulated location through zoning and home occupation rules. But the former Auckland City Council bylaw on location was quashed by the ...

Ranui gets library to serve growing population
New Zealand Herald
Ranui is one of three library projects approved by the board for the Auckland Council's long-term budget and handed on by the former Waitakere City Council. The others are a $27 million library and town square in the Massey North development to be ...

Auckland studios to film Japanese saga
New Zealand Herald
The council inherited a 44.4 per cent share in the studios from the Waitakere City Council, which had turned the former apple coolstore site into the "Hollywood of the South Pacific". In a joint venture, Tony Tay Film received a 56.6 per cent share in ...

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John's long, long, wait
Auckland stuff.co.nz
But the former Waitakere City Council said it wasn't in line with the subdivision's resource consent. Mr Long and the Auckland Council came to an agreement in April this year. But the council now wants him to indemnify its contractors for any damage ...

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Concern over use of building
Auckland stuff.co.nz
Under the Waitakere City Council's management plan the property was supposed to be used for community or education purposes but it's now rented by private tenants. In 2009 the former council used $180000 from the Harbourview special fund collected via ...