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Recycling – resumes February.

A quick reminder to everyone who has the monthly recycling ingrained as a habit – that we miss out the first Saturday of January. Our next recycling day is Saturday 1 February 2025. Look out for a post soon, that … Continue reading

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Chartwell Reserve Bioblitz

Entry is free, but you must register so the organisers know the numbers coming. Links to free tickets for the two events are below:

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Changes to Recycling

Kia ora to the fantastic recycling community of Ngaio and Crofton Downs, Thank you all so much for your mahi in recycling so much material over the last few years. We have been keeping a record of what has been … Continue reading

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Assessing Aotearoa’s war on Nature

Assessing Aotearoa’s war on Nature, a talk by Professor Jonathan Boston Jonathan Boston is Prof Emeritus at the VUW school of governance. He was seconded to the Climate Commission for a time recently, and has researched managed retreat. He will … Continue reading

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NCDRA Annual Photo Competition

It is time again for our annual photo competition. The categories for 2024 are: gardens, insects, and could do better – a very wide interpretation of each category will be accepted, and we will put them into one of the … Continue reading

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AGM 2024

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Local Transport Survey

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New Trails in Ngaio

Trails Wellington and Korimako Track Builders are proposing new mountain biking and walking trails above the Silverstream property development in the suburb of Crofton Downs. These are on the eastern side of the Te Wharangi Ridge, the Skyline Walkway. See … Continue reading

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Wellington Airport flight path consultation

Wellington Airport is publicly consulting on potential flight path options for northerly jet departures from Wellington. The options are: This follows changes made to flight paths for jet aircraft departing Wellington to the north in December 2022. In general, these … Continue reading

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The Great Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association, Pride in our Streets Cleanup

NCDRA is proud to be organizing the 2024 Pride in our Streets Clean Up, to be held in October, with support from Wellington City Council. Follow this link to adopt a street for cleaning – StreetCleanup By 20 October 2024, … Continue reading

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