Meet Your New Local Board Representatives! Stephanie Mclean –Harcourts Pohutukawa Coast
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18 October 2019 Issue 1323 Meet your new local board representatives! Stephanie McLean –Harcourts Pohutukawa Coast Stephanie Mclean Licensed Agent REAA 2008. Sales &Marketing Specialist M 021 164 5111 Hoverd&Co. Want your business to have ultimate exposure? ADVERTISE HERE! Phone 021 026 14467 or From left: Vote counts from early this week put Lance Gedge, Angela Fulljames and Malcolm Bell as the top three preferred [email protected] choices for Franklin Local Board’s Wairoa Subdivision. The final election results are expected to be confirmed by this Friday. Second fill site in Brookby gets green light A panel of Auckland Council’s independent hearing com- or mitigated. missioners has given the green light to P&I Pascoe’s appli- The approval allows P&I Pascoes to receive approximately cation to establish a ‘stage two’ filling operation within a 902,000m3 of ‘managed’ fill over a 20 year period, and means FIRTH second gully at its Twilight Road site in Brookby. that 240 truck movements (120 in and 120 out) per day will PAVERS A number of local residents and the Brookby Environment be allowed on weekdays. Protection Society (BEPS) spoke at the recent council hear- On Saturdays, 130 truck movements per day will be allowed, NOW ing, expressing concerns about roading, traffic and stream/ limited to 40 per hour (20 in and 20 out of the managed fill AVAILABLE wetland loss. activity) on Saturdays until appropriate width sealed shoul- Submitters also raised concerns about the stability of the ders are provided on Brookby Road and Whitford Park Road. stage two site, in light of the large slip which led to the closure Trucks travelling to and from the site will not be allowed to of the business’s stage one site in 2018. use Twilight Road between the site entrance and North Road In their decision released early this month, the commis- at anytime. Trucks using the fill site are also not to turn right sioners said that expert evidence provided by the applicant from Twilight Road onto Brookby Road on Saturdays until Our timber is sourced from TING 40 RA Y B T E and Auckland Council had reassured them that any adverse renewable plantations E OR ON A R L MTIMBER CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 E CO. LTD S effects would be no more than minor, and could be managed C Morton Timber Co. Ltd 226 North Road, Clevedon 2248 292 8656 • • Ph 292 8656 or 021 943 220 1 9 979 01 INSIDE: Tuia 250 to visit Coast p4 Board members outline priorities p5 Christmas functions p8-9 Email: [email protected] – 2 Property Management with Superior Service Great Smiles. FOR AFRIENDLY, EFFECTIVE AND Better Health. EFFICIENT SERVICE, TALK TO TRACEY TODAY! At Anthony Hunt Dental we have been East Tamaki proud to be serving our local community P:(09) 536 7011 or (021) 400 297 since 2011. 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E: [email protected] what we will achieve as a village. But a gled through the 1970s. And our prox- We would all agree it would be nice to W: www.pctimes.co.nz look through our history shows Cleve- imity to Auckland has kept us adapting, feel we have some control over change. F: facebook.com/pctimes don is always changing. with the city folk currently coming to As mentioned many times in the Po- A: PO Box 5, Beachlands 2147 The Wairoa River is why our settle- Clevedon for, among other things, the hutukawa Coast Times, in 2015 the Level 1, 129A Beachlands Road, ment is here. From the beginning it was markets and nearby beaches, walks etc., Clevedon CBA’s Design and Planning Beachlands the means of transporting our goods to attend weddings and events, and are subcommittee started Clevedon Con- and people to and from Auckland via now using us as a film location. versations, which asked the people of Tamaki Strait. The tangata whenua of Watercare has started construction Clevedon if they had a magic wand, what EDITOR the Clevedon area are Ngai Tai, who are work on laying water and waste water would they like Clevedon to be like after Leanne Chamberlin descendant from the Tainui waka. pipes through Clevedon which is fan- subdivisions and development. This has 021 426 207 In 1854, an entry from Clevedon set- tastic. We have to do it - for a lot of crystallised into the Clevedon Village [email protected] tler Hampton Thorp’s diary, after one Clevedon people, this started back in Design Framework which we launched of his first trips up the river, reads … 2007 with the Ormiston Report for the earlier this year with a couple of suc- ADVERTISING as they “pulled up” the Wairoa River then Manukau City Council on the fail- cessful wine and cheese evenings. We Melody Cutfield they “caught glimpses of the riverside ings of the current wastewater solutions are now up to the last two stages of this gardens cultivated by Ngai Tai for the for properties in the Clevedon village. project and we wish to continue it with 021 0261 4467 Auckland markets …” Clevedon – then The works will without a doubt cause the professionalism shown throughout. [email protected] called Wairoa - must have grown quickly disruption for the village and villagers And this requires money. as by 1859 it had a primary school and but also provides us an opportunity to The Clevedon CBA plans to scratch to- CLASSIFIEDS over the decades gained the other village focus on the great outcomes this will gether enough to cover the first step, but [email protected] requirements – pub, post office and par- give Clevedon (example one: no more we will have to go to the Clevedon com- FEATURES ish church. smelly winter days in the village!). And munity, businesses and friends to raise Melody Cuteld ACCOUNTS & CIRCULATION The Wairoa River continued to take it does seem we have the sympathy of the further funds required to complete 021 0261 4467 Pam Rutherford butter and cheese to Auckland and Watercare, who have agreed to avoid the project with a second step. We’ll be [email protected] 536 7164 brought back holiday makers until local works in the main township during our announcing soon how people can help. [email protected] roads connected up with the main Auck- busy lead up to Christmas (including our See you at the Clevedon Christmas land routes around 1950. The communi- Clevedon Christmas Parade on Saturday Parade, Saturday 30 November, 11am! UPCOMING FEATURES ty thrived through the 60s, building our 30 November, 11am – 2pm, Clevedon 25 October - Boating & Marine 1 November - Urban East / Clevedon A&P Show Police seek further information about crashes The Pohutukawa Coast Times is Beachlands Police would like to hear Incident 2 The vehicle lost control and struck a distributed weekly to 6200 homes from anyone who witnessed the following At about 8pm on Friday 27 September tree and rolled several times coming to and businesses in: Whitford, vehicles driving prior to crashing late last 2019, a yellow Nissan coupe was travel- rest on its roof. The sole occupant was Brookby, Beachlands, Maraetai, month: ling on Whitford Maraetai Road towards transported to Middlemore Hospital and Clevedon, Alfriston, Kawakawa Bay, Incident 1 Beachlands. is now recovering. Orere Pt, Hunua, Paparimu At about 5pm on Thursday 26 September Did you see these vehicles driving before 2019, a Black RX7 travelling from Mar- Member of the New Zealand they crashed late last month? If so Community Newspapers aetai lost control between the Beachlands contact Beachlands Police. Association Pony Club and Jack Lachlan Drive. Occupants suffered small cuts and bruis- es after the vehicle rolled approximately 2 times after sliding off the road and hitting a tree, coming to rest on its roof. If there are any witnesses to the vehicle’s manner of driving in the Maraetai area prior to the crash, please call in or contact The PC Times 20 years ago: the Beachlands Police on 09-5366130. Our Lady Star of the Sea 22 October 1999: City Manager takes Quote event P039240473. the rap for staff’s attempt to hand back local halls. 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