Long-awaited Navy mates youth centre cycle for a under wayP5 cause P10 North Shore Times Thursday, July 28, 2016 YOUR PLACE, YOUR PAPER What’s Sold! selling $993,000 31 Santiago Cres, Unsworth Heights Solid, well-maintained three bedroom home with appeal to owner-occupiers or investors. Sold by Bayleys Mairangi Bay $2,140,000 9 Peter Tce, Castor Bay Four bedroom family home on a large site with sunny backyard Auckland City Mission pottery class tutor Peter Lange with artist Rossana ‘Rose’ Greaves. PHOTO: LAINE MOGER/FAIRFAX NZ and entertaining area. Sold by Bayleys Takapuna Homeless art display LAINE MOGER ented at I Am the Art. ledgement to our teachers, the tor Linda Blincko says the exhi- The Mission’s pottery classes Mission, and ourselves.’’ bition is to raise awareness of the Homeless people and rough- are taught by retired ceramicist For Greaves’ fellow artists, the individual lives of the homeless sleepers of Auckland are Peter Lange, a leading New Zea- class offers more than a chance to community. showcasing their ceramic land artist for 40 years. mould pottery. Despite the Mission being creativity at an exhibition in Artist Rossana ‘Rose’ Greaves It is a respite from the cold and based in the CBD, Blincko wants Devonport. is one of the homeless community rain, a sense of achievement, and the city to recognise homelessness $1,091,000 I Am the Art & The Art is Me is members attending Lange’s class. a place to stay out of trouble. is an ‘‘Auckland-wide issue’’, and 39 Hillcrest Ave, Hillcrest a collaborative exhibition Greaves was given a state ‘‘It can be a place to turn our includes North Shore communi- Modern and low maintenance between Depot Artspace and house four-and-a-half years ago attention to positive art therapy,’’ ties. three bedroom home. Fully Auckland City Mission, dis- but still enjoys giving back to the she says. ‘‘The arts have the capacity to fenced with great access to the playing the talent of those who are place and community that helped Tutor Lange is no stranger to break down barriers. CBD and local amenities. often left isolated and on the her. excellence and fame. ‘‘We want to try and break Sold by Bayleys Mairangi Bay margins of society. ‘‘My art is special because Yet above all of the inter- down stereotypes of how home- Auckland City Mission offers when I am working with clay I national exhibitions he has less people are viewed,’’ Blincko See the latest Real Estate Outlook several art classes, including a feel I am working in the realm of participated in, he says ‘‘This is says. inside this issue Wednesday pottery class, the Papatuanuku,’’ Greaves says. the proudest one I’ve ever had’’. The exhibition runs until spoils of which are being pres- ‘‘The exhibition is an acknow- Depot Artspace creative direc- August 10. Pre-university | Years 1 – 13 Open Day Saturday 6 August 10.30am – 2.30pm acgedu.com/seniorcollege | 0800 222 988 2 NORTH SHORE TIMES, JULY 28, 2016 stuff.co.nz 1. 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Heights, Forrest Hill, Glenfield, Hillcrest, Mairangi Bay, Meadowood, Milford, Murrays Bay, Northcote, Northcross, Oteha, Pinehill, Rothesay - Jodi Yeats Bay, Stanley Point, Sunnynook, Takapuna, Torbay, Unsworth Heights, Waiake, Westlake, Windsor Park. ® One hour 0800CUTSHOP cutshop.com North Shore Auckland FREE PROGRAMMING valued $108.33 ends 31 JULY New wardrobes? 2016 Do it yourself! Cutshop® can help you turn Call Dave or Debbie Sutherland and your ideas into custom flat pack designs that DIY quote ‘CNS001’ you can build to a professional finish. to qualify. 12C John Glenn Avenue | Rosedale | North Shore | [email protected] | 09 869 8690 stuff.co.nz JULY 28, 2016, NORTH SHORE TIMES 3 Council to stop buying landfor parks ZIZI SPARKS increase the amount of land coun- cil gets for parks overall. Auckland Council will no longer Neighbourhood parks, usually purchase land for parks and 3000 to 5000 square metres and reserves in established areas, like used for informal recreation, pre- the North Shore, under a new pol- viously had to be within 600 icy. metres of a new development but The Parks, Recreation and the policy reduces this to 400m. Sport Committee adopted the Suburban parks, which are three Open Space Provision Policy at its to 10 hectares with organised July 20 meeting and will recom- sports and other facilities, were mend it to the Regional Strategy previously 1500m away and must and Policy Committee for adop- now be within 1000m. tion on August 4. Watson says about 80 per cent Committee member and North of existing areas meet the pro- Shore councillor John Watson visions already. In order to fulfil says most residents would be the policy, developers will have to against stopping land purchases. provide more land for council to ‘‘If you’re going to increase the purchase, he says. population that’s fine, but you The policy aims to reflect need to provide the space to cope Auckland’s expected growth and with it,’’ Watson says. says the provisions will increase ‘‘Because the North Shore is an the amount of open space by a established area and already has North Shore councillor John Watson says residents would be against stopping land purchases. PHOTO: ZIZI SPARKS/FAIRFAX NZ third from 0.9 hectares per thou- open spaces, they won’t be buying sand residents to 1.2ha. any more. What there is now is all existing ones. mostly in greenfield (undevel- it can accommodate the growing Over the next decade, council you’re going to get.’’ Auckland Council’s Parks and oped) areas. population,’’ Cairns says. plans to spend $2 billion on devel- Under the policy, the money Recreation Policy manager Rob ‘‘In existing urban areas our Watson, who seconded the oping, acquiring and renewing saved by not buying new parks Cairns says council will continue focus is on improving the estab- adoption of the policy, says the parks and $4.2 billion on oper- will be used to improve the to buy land for new parks but lished open space network so that advantage is that the change will ation and maintenance. Food-waste bin confusion TOM DILLANE fusion about when to put out the collected on the same day as their bins,’’ Takapuna resident Maggie Auckland Council orange rubbish Only a select number of North Hogan says. bag,’’ Sood says. Shore homes have food-waste ‘‘There are bins everywhere on ‘‘Food waste is collected collections and they’ve been a our street. weekly.’’ source of confusion for some time. ‘‘I rang council and the girl Sood says all residents Auckland Council introduced suggested you put them out on involved in food-collection trial a food-waste collection trial in Tuesday when you put out the were notified of the collection May 2014 to approximately 2000 recycling bins, but not one got col- times in a letter sent during the households in Northcote, Forrest lected.’’ rollout of the new general Hill, Milford and Takapuna.