Auckland City Council - City Scene

Submissions close at the end of November on Auckland City's plan for managing Auckland City's future growth - potentially another 170,000 people over the next 50 years.

Called the 'Liveable Communities 2050 Strategy' the plan proposes that the city manages where, when and how growth occurs rather than let it happen haphazardly. It identifies areas of the city where growth could be accommodated - called Strategic Growth Management Areas (SGMAs) in tandem with infrastructure (including drainage and transport), and amenity improvements.

Pilot liveable community plans have been started in Avondale and Panmure.

Formal submissions on the draft Liveable Communities 2050 Strategy are needed by 30 November. Anyone wanting the draft strategies should contact Natalie Sando Ph 379 2020.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>