Nah didn’t do the full thing, just went from Crofton Downs station to Mt Kaukau and back again. That way I wasn’t reliant on cars or needing people to pick me up / drop me off - which you kinda need if you’re going all the way to / from the Makara end

Update: CCTV sheds light on mystery milk bottles appearing at Alexandra petrol station

They’ve looked at the CCTV footage:

“The main culprit, I believe, is a delivery driver. So he rocks up early in the morning, and later in the evening … and gets his diesel and leaves his two bottles on top of the pump.”

I flew domestic from Wellington this morning and was still required to take out laptops - though this was Jetstar.

Overall seems like a pretty good result. Disappointing that the heritage buildings will still be protected, but sounds like that was rejected on technicalities rather than due to any desire to retain those buildings.

Looks like they may be doing just that: Police treat painting over of Auckland’s K’ Road rainbow crossing as hate crime

From the NZIA About the awards programme (which took me a bit to find):

The awards judges assess each project in terms of the following:

The relationship of the building to its site, context and presence

The degree of consistency and completeness in expressing the relationship between concept, form and structure

Light, colour, texture and spatial qualities

Structure, construction, materials and issues of durability and detail

Environmental performance

User satisfaction, value to the client and acceptability of solutions to the brief

Contribution to the advancement of architecture as a discipline and the enhancement of the human spirit

It seems like there’s a panel of jurors that visit the sites as well as meeting with the architects and clients

Some other sources:

• District Plan decisions will allow Wellington to grow and thrive - Wellington City Council
• Wellington City Council officially passes an ambitious new District Plan - the Spinoff live updates

I know, been kinda conditioned to expect the worst but yeah this seems like great progress. Still has to go through Chris Bishop but from what I understand he’s not likely to oppose this stuff.

• Major gas leak closes street in Petone (contractor hit a gas main) (yesterday)
• https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511041/dozens-of-people-evacuated-over-suspected-chemical-leak-in-central-wellington (2 days ago)

All completely unrelated but interesting, to me at least, nonetheless.

There’s been a few notable gas leaks recently - the other day a street in Petone was closed, and I seem to recall there was an evacuation of some sort somewhere a day or so prior to that.