New World car park being resealed

Forewarned... Signage on Fleet St is alerting customers to the night closures of the supermarket car park while the surface is renewed

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Fulton Hogan is resurfacing the Devonport New World car park as part of the Auckland Transport (AT) road-maintenance programme.

AT said the work was not flood related. “The existing hot-mix surface of the road is reaching the end of its life and has become oxidized and unstable,” an AT spokesperson said.Such surfaces were resealed after 10 or more years, before they became unsafe.

The work area covers parts of Bartley Tce and Clarence St.

To minimise disruption to customers at New World and other businesses, Fulton Hogan is doing the work outside of normal business hours. New World is open as usual.

The resurfacing would take around a week to two weeks to complete, dependent on weather and other factors, AT said.

Former council chambers immediately up for lease

The new owners of the former Devonport Borough Council chambers at 3 Victoria Rd have moved quickly to offer it for lease.

Peninsula Capital took possession of the building in mid-May. The council-owned building has been vacant for 1804 days.

Although 3 Victoria Rd will eventually need earthquake-strengthening, the building could be offered for lease ahead of that, Peninsula’s Mark Hiddleston said.

The building was “a bit shabby and needs a tidy-up” but the firm was willing to work with any prospective tenants. “Hopefully we will get some tenant enquiries.”

Hiddleston said Peninsula Capital was moving to settle at the end of June on more than 15 commercial properties it bought from long-time Devonport landlord Vista-Linda Ltd. Harcourts will continue the managing the properties as Peninsula works up a long-term plan to “revitalise the Devonport village”.

Since Peninsula’s real-estate purchases in Devonport, it had been “building relationships and establishing contacts” with various groups, he said.

As a major landlord, it wanted to support local events – the first of which was likely to be local celebrations of Matariki.

• Auckland Council confirmed to the Flagstaff last week that the sale price for 3 Victoria Rd was $2 million.

Board wants more residents’ views on plan

Feedback from more residents is wanted by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board on its latest draft local-board plan.

The document, which is updated every three years, sets out priorities and will test the public appetite for ideas such as greater sharing of council-owned buildings by the likes of Scouts and sports groups.

The 2020 plan attracted 297 submissions. This year, the board hopes to get 500 or more, including a better response from youth and ethnic groups, whom it consulted in drawing up the plan.

It plans ‘Have Your Say’ events to help promote this, including a hui in Bayswater in July and another session in Takapuna in August.

Staff and board members have worked on the plan for several months, considering ideas from the public and from targeted sessions at central youth hub Shore Junction and aimed at the large Asian population in Sunnynook.

It wants to hear more from groups that it engages with less frequently and to build relationships with these communities, as well as from regular submitters, such as residents groups.

The draft plan is due to be approved by the board this week and will then to go out for consultation. Once feedback is considered, it must be finalised and adopted by October.