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No Aqurium at Te Raekaihau Point

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
No Aqurium at Te Raekaihau Point

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Its official the proposers of the mad cap council backed scheme have finally pulled the plug on the  bizzare and expensive plan to build a four  level entertainment complex masquerading as an education center on the  Wellington Sth Coast at Te Raekaihau point.The Wellington Marine Conservation Trust  has withdrawn its appeal against the the environment court decision that  denied them resource consent and have slunk of somewhere to lick their collective wounds and mumble something about the centre being built somewhere else (yeah right ,the ideas now dog tucker or fishmeal anyway)
Apart from the sheer architectural  ugliness of the massive venture   the fact that the mayor and her cosy  circle of sycophants(councilors and developers)  were prepared to give the proponents of the scheme a  $7million interest free loan  from the rates and had already  funded the consent appeal process to the tune of  $700,000 was in my opinion simply blind profligacy in extreme!
Thanks to a group of hard working opponents to the scheme and the common sense shown by the environment court in its initial decision,, the ratepayers of Wellington will no longer have their collective pockets dipped for the benefit of developers and Te Raekaihau  and the the sth Coast will stay wild and  untouched for many years to come !!
 
                                       
                                                Final result from Te Raekaihau stadium
                                                Nimby United fc 3-Marine centre rovers -0
                                                Goals Jambo --hatrick
                                                Red cards ,Prendergast 1min ,Mercer 3 min
                                                        
                             
Kiwi Jambo2008-03-09 16:52:35

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an entertainment centre at Te Raekaihau would be awesome.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
good job, well done all those who organized to save the point
 
(in your terms KJ, we not only saved a point but wrapped up all 3)
tigers2008-03-08 11:21:30
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Frankie Mac wrote:
an entertainment centre at Te Raekaihau would be awesome.


Get yir sad arse down to Te Raekaihau  in a pair of Speedos  Frankie, that will be entertainment enough for everyone!
Kiwi Jambo2008-03-08 17:32:41

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I just hope her worship the mayor has the good grace to admit publicly that the whole scheme was ill thought out and advise her fellow councilors that in the interest of balance the opposition group who campaigned against the daft plan for an aquarium come Disney land on the sth coast   should also have their considerable legal costs reimbursed or is it one law for one and one law for another under this council !!
And while im at it are the MEC going to remove that pathetic fish tank from the Reading cinema complex, Ive never seen such a pissed off looking octopus in my life! thats if its still alive that is!
Kiwi Jambo2008-03-12 18:39:05

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It's actually a plastic one, no one has seen it move!
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
A bit like the Phoenix defence last year!!
Seriously though ,what a tacky piece of crap advertising, half dead marine creatures and cardboard cut outs of sea horses , surely that was never going to persuade anyone that they (the MEC) should be  given $7 million from the ratepayers of Wellington in an interest free loan!

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

 

Well Nz's inability to get anything done just continues. Here we had a great chance to turn Wellington's south coast into something special instead 50 idiots complain and it doesn't go ahead. The benefits for Wellington would be far reaching but people with no vision decide to complain against something and Wellington lossess it's chance to provide a major tourist attraction in the city. The 7 million dollar loan would easily be payed back in revenue to the City's hotels.I bet people wern't complaining when the stadium was given an intrest free loan.

NZ's problem, why people are going to Australia, is the country is just way to slow. We're going backwards and nothing can be done in any sensible period of time. In Australia they don't let every Man's dog has a say and this thing would have been built by now.

I'm prepared to cop alot of sh*t for this one but the whole thing pissess me off.

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Notsure wrote:

 

Well Nz's inability to get anything done just continues. Here we had a great chance to turn Wellington's south coast into something special instead 50 idiots complain and it doesn't go ahead. The benefits for Wellington would be far reaching but people with no vision decide to complain against something and Wellington lossess it's chance to provide a major tourist attraction in the city. The 7 million dollar loan would easily be payed back in revenue to the City's hotels.I bet people wern't complaining when the stadium was given an intrest free loan.

NZ's problem, why people are going to Australia, is the country is just way to slow. We're going backwards and nothing can be done in any sensible period of time. In Australia they don't let every Man's dog has a say and this thing would have been built by now.

I'm prepared to cop alot of sh*t for this one but the whole thing pissess me off.

 
not flak, just a simple suggestion - come to terms with democracy or migrate
 
people in NZ care about the environment more than they care about your hypothetical tourists
 
and the people (or idiots if you prefer) have won the day
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Didn't they just announce they were going to restart the aquarium at another site about 500m further along the coast?

I hope it goes ahead - Wellington needs more tourist attractions.
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i agree with notsures point about drawn out processes in this country and how a small group can dominate a larger one. worst example of this was the v8 race a couple of years ago, every survey or study i saw said the v8 race would be good for the city but a small bunch of fuking greenies get in there and ruin it.
i dont really have an opinionon the aquarium because i dont know enough about it but i ask this, were people not winging about te papa 10 years ago and saying it would be a waste? the fact it is nzs most popular tourist attraction certainly suggests that wasnt the case

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bopman wrote:
i agree with notsures point about drawn out processes in this country and how a small group can dominate a larger one. worst example of this was the v8 race a couple of years ago, every survey or study i saw said the v8 race would be good for the city but a small bunch of fuking greenies get in there and ruin it.
i dont really have an opinionon the aquarium because i dont know enough about it but i ask this, were people not winging about te papa 10 years ago and saying it would be a waste? the fact it is nzs most popular tourist attraction certainly suggests that wasnt the case
 
Another example I can think of is the Western Springs where they do some sort of motor racing. The people living around there were complaining about the sound (about 50 of them) so they said that the racing couldn't continue unless they turned the noise down. It's silly because Western Springs was enjoyed by many people and was there before those other people were!
 
Or the Wellington Bypass, I'm told Wellington needed it 30 years ago. Some of the protestors got the plans changed and they scraped part of it which would have made it alot better. The Bypass benefits the whole city majorly 500,000 people but, no let us not hurt those few people's feeling's. Now that the Bypass is finally built the traffic around the Kapiti coast is bad so we need a bypass around there when that is finally built we'll need a new road and we'll always be one step behind the traffic.
 
My ideas aren't communist. I think a few people getting their way over many others is getting away from democracy. I would basically just like to see the process sped up.  
 
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