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 the map below.
There is a meeting to discuss this at Ngaio Town Hall 5.30pm–7pm, Thursday 17 October.
Visit wcc.nz/crofton-downs-trails to read more about the proposal and give feedback. Opportunity for feedback closes Thursday 31 October.
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 changes have meant fewer departures over Newlands and more over Khandallah and Broadmeadows.
You can read more detailed background on the options in this document: Flight path changes that may affect your suburb.
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, we want our members, and anyone else who lives locally to adopt a Street or two, and then during the week of 21 – 27 October, to clean up any rubbish which is making the place untidy. We want to see as many people out and about with rubbish bags doing some solid mahi to keep our neighbourhood looking and feeling its best! We will be providing rubbish bags and gloves courtesy of Wellington City Council.
On Sunday 27 October, bring all the rubbish you have collected down to Ngaio Town Hall where we have organized to have it collected and taken away.
Do you want to be involved?:
Together we can make a real difference
We are holding a waste workshop by Wasted with Kate in conjunction with the Council’s Waste Minimisation team. Kate is a fantastic presenter and has run several of these in the past for the Council. Ngaio has been asked to host because of our record of projects to minimise waste in our community.
The workshop will be on the evening of Tuesday 3 September from 6pm. Full details on the poster below – and this link takes you to the Facebook event – | “Waste-Ed” with Kate | Facebook.
There is a cost of $10 pp to attend (with discounts for pairs). The entry costs are subsidised by WCC, and all attendees will leave with a Goodie bag which is valued at $40.
To go direct to the bookings for this event – follow this link Waste-ed /3rd September 2024
Working Bee at Cummings Park today – POSTPONED.
Due to the weather – the call has been made to postpone this event to a later date when we can expect the weather to be better. Our apologies if this has affected your plans today!
“When was the last time you heard the intricate melody of a tūī’s song? What about the sharp shriek of a kākā?
If recently, that means all is going according to plan. Wellington is one of the few cities in the world where native bird numbers are increasing, and this isn’t by chance. For decades, local organisations have been hard at work enhancing the mouri or biodiversity lifeforce of Wellington and these efforts are clearly paying off.
In particular, Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne has just entered the second generation of our 500-year plan — Living with Nature, Tiako Taiao, Tiaki Tangata. This next generation is focused on extending the biodiversity ‘halo’ from outside the large ecosanctuary fence and bringing people and nature together once again. We have a new name for this project — Kia Mouriora te Kaiwharawhara, otherwise known as Sanctuary to Sea.
Local businesses, restoration groups, residents associations, and organisations have answered nature’s call for support. You too can help nature thrive by getting involved in environmental initiatives near you.
Join us Saturday, 20 July 11:00am – 2:00pm at Cummings Park for a community working bee to enhance the native bush planted by Railway Roopu Cumming Park. This event will be held in conjunction with Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne and Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents Association. You can RSVP on Facebook (see the event at Ngaio Working Bee or by emailing Nate at sanctuarytosea@visitzealandia.com.
Find out more about the Kia Mouriora te Kaiwharawhara | Sanctuary to Sea project by visiting https://www.visitzealandia.com/About/Sanctuary-to-Sea.
This update about the construction in Thorndon Quay has come from Wellington City Council (abridged).
The Thorndon Quay upgrade stretches from the Bunny St intersection to 87 Hutt Road (near Gun City). We’re working in sections so it will be less disruptive for businesses and traffic.
We will finish in June 2025. This map (below) shows how we have divided the route into 13 areas. We’ll usually be working in two areas at a time during the day and in other areas at night. There will be signalised pedestrian crossings in areas 4, 6, 8, 9 and 13. These need cabling and power to operate the signals and integrate them into the city-wide traffic monitoring system, so there’ll be more work here than in other areas.
In area 11 (at the intersection of Tinakori Road and Thorndon Quay) there will be all-new traffic signals, and in area 2 at the Mulgrave Street intersection we will upgrade the existing signals and crossings.
There will be some temporary bus stops during construction, but services won’t be affected.
The new cycle way on the seaward side of Thorndon Quay connects to the existing cycleway on Hutt Road. You’ll use the seaward side to go both north and south. You’ll need to keep a good lookout and be courteous to pedestrians as they cross the cycleway from cars into businesses.
A priority bus lane will operate in peak weekday commuting times – from 6.30 to 9.30am heading into the city. A bus lane outbound is planned to start operating about two years later. This would likely be from 4.00 to 6:30pm, but we will assess this closer to the time.
Read more about consultation on this project and how decisions were reached.
This Saturday is first of the month – so its recycling time again, from 10am to 12 noon at Ngaio Union Church.
Good news – we can recycle shaving products again – all brands of disposable shavers, including blades and razors (refillable and disposable products, replaceable-blade cartridge units), and rigid plastic packaging. Please not cardboard packaging – that can go kerbside.
We are also collecting Nespresso coffee capsules each month as these go to a recycle collection station in Wellington City. Other capsules remain on the schedule to be collected every few months, as I need to have a few kg to courier to their respective programmes. Another addition is on the months that we collect the other coffee capsules, Robert Harris is now included.
Remember too that we are always looking for cardboard cartons in good order. We use these to drop our collection to the sustainability trust, and increasingly to courier collections to Terracycle. An ideal size is a box with sides of around half a meter. Boxes that meal kits are delivered in (Hello Fresh or My Food Bag for example) are handy too.
Here is the full and updated list of what we collect each month.
Each month we have one additional collection so plan ahead for these collections for the rest of the year. This month we are taking car batteries, The complete schedule for the rest of 2024, is below:
| Saturday 6 July | Car batteries (must be clean dry and not leaking). |
| Saturday 3 August | Food Grade Silicon |
| Saturday 7 September | Ewaste (small and medium devices and appliances excluding TVs and monitors). |
| Saturday 5 October | Coffee Capsules – Start collecting your coffee capsules for recycling. We will be accepting capsules which are sent to three separate programmes, so they will need to be separated into these three lots: – Nespresso, – Nescafé® Dolce Gusto® – L’OR, Moccona, illy or Jed’s coffee |
| Saturday 2 November | Small Metal items (aluminium, copper + other metals) must be clean and dry, and small means they fit into a supermarket bag. |
| Saturday 7 December | Car batteries (must be clean dry and not leaking). |
