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Community 7 Aug 2024

Plan change raises flooding concerns

Franklin Local Board will take its concerns over a development on the edge of Pukekohe to a planning hearing.

Community 6 Aug 2024

New playground hits the right note

Kai-paawhara at Kirikiri Reserve provides a new neighbourhood space.

Community 6 Aug 2024

Tennis club hits a winner

Franklin Local Board has handed over assets to the Patumahoe Tennis Club.

Transport 6 Aug 2024

West boards unite in opposition to speed limit changes

Proposed changes to speed limit rules should consider the impacts to all road users, including social and environmental impacts.  

Community 6 Aug 2024

Show time for Panmure Basin bridge

The curtain is about to be raised on works to prepare for installation of the new Panmure Basin bridge for pedestrians, scooters and bikes.

City Centre Waterfront 5 Aug 2024

Pictures tell the story of our city centre’s transformation

“A city is an ever-changing process, more like a garden.”

Cleaning up our environment 2 Aug 2024

Neighbours combine to battle flooding

Floodwaters have no respect for council boundaries.

Community 31 Jul 2024

This shore hits the spot

With a big boost from the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu local board, the beloved Seaside Park in Ōtāhuhu has been given a fin-tastic makeover, and the community are shell-abrating with joy!

Events

30 Jun 2024 - 29 Dec 2024

Dough Modelling

Come and join Glenfield Library’s dough modelling workshop with our modelling master, Miaomiao.

30 Jun 2024 - 30 Jun 2025

Cuttings and Kōrero

Join us every last Sunday in Te Ara Tapuwae to connect with other plant enthusiasts!

28 Oct 2024

St Heliers Art & Craft Market

Come along to St Heliers this Labour Day Monday for one of Auckland’s largest Art & Craft markets.

26 Feb 2024 - 25 Nov 2024

Book Chat

Come along to talk about your favourite reads, something you are reading now, or maybe even just...

29 Oct 2024

Hibiscus Coast Genealogy's Exploring Your DNA

Join John Curtis of the Hibiscus Coast Genealogy Society for an engaging exploration of DNA testi...

29 Oct 2024 - 02 Nov 2024

Bailey Poching: Doing Great

One of Aotearoa's most exciting new comedic voices delivers his first solo show, digging into gri...

26 Mar 2024 - 17 Dec 2024

Community Chip Packet Project Strip Fusing

Join us with a sense of charitable camaraderie to help fuse clean chip packets together to create...

30 Oct 2024

Book Launch: Jacqueline Bublitz - Leave the girls behind

Acclaimed New Zealand author of Before You Knew My Name, Jacqueline Bublitz, returns with another...