Important meeting to attend

By Frank Neill

It is very important that people attend tomorrow’s pre-hearing meeting on the Wellington City Council’s Proposed District Plan, says Karori Residents’ Association Chair Andrea Skews.

The council has organised the pre-hearing meeting which will be held at 5pm on 26 January at Kai poko, level 7, 79 Boulcott Street.

It is particularly important that people who have made submissions attend the meeting, Ms Skews says.

The meeting is principally an opportunity for submitters to see the hearing venue and to get a better understanding of the hearing process before the hearings start.

It provides an opportunity for submitters to meet the Friend of Submitters Emily

Bayliss, Commissioner Chair Trevor Robinson, Deputy Chair Robert Schofield and a council representative ahead of Hearing Stream One, which begins on 21 February.

Following a welcomeby the council’s Chief Planning OfficerLiam Hodgetts, the Chair will introduce the other participants.

The floor will then open to submitters to ask the hearings panel questions about the hearing process and get familiar with the hearings space.

However no discussion about the content of the Proposed District Plan or the issues raised in submissions will be entered into.\

Catering, light refreshments and the submitter guidance (one-page document) will be available. Security will be onsite and also Hearings Support staff.

It’s her choice. She’s had a hard few years.

Good and bad. I think it’s good because she is not doing what she said she would do in terms of the housing crisis and people living on the street. But bad as she did do her best on the whole Covid situation.