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Takapuna, Milford, Castor Bay, Forrest Hill and Sunnynook VERED FORTNIGHTLY AN INDEPENDENT VOICE Issue 1 – 15 March 2019
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Golf course wetland just first step to limit flooding
A water detention wetland scheme at AF Thomas Park, home of Takapuna Golf Club, approved this week, is just the first of a series of moves needed before residents get a clearer idea of the future for their suburbs in the flood-prone Wairau catchment. The full use of the public park will be decided in the first half of 2026. It will be several years before detailed design begins on further flood-resilience works in the
Wairau commercial zone and around badly flood-prone residential areas of Milford. For golfers, the big question remains whether 18 holes can somehow be retained at the park, with council’s Healthy Waters saying only that a design concept worked on by both parties “could allow for a nine-hole course and driving range on the site”. Milford residents who are gathering views on what they would like to see done with
land from bought-out properties – mainly in the Nile Rd area – are relieved by news that Stage 1 work at the park is progressing. “The main thing people want is not to worry when the rain comes down,” says Milford Residents Association co-chair Debbie Dunsford. Fellow co-chair Norma Bott says: “Now’s the time for getting on with it.” With 139 Milford homes assigned CateTo pages 8-9
Unbroken stint has snappy end Garry Steen will always remember his last day of more than half a century working at Westlake Boys High School, which he attended in the early 1970s and never entirely left. The electrician has just retired after 52 years working on the North Shore – including contract work at Westlake throughout. Somewhat bizarrely, on his last day at work last month, on his last job, Steen broke his hand while installing lights – at Westlake. Just before the accident the school had taken a photo of him up a ladder, which they had framed as a leaving gift. Steen moved on to the last set of lights, but fell about a metre. “I slipped and then felt a crunch.” He didn’t think much of it at first and dropped into a supermarket to get some groceries before heading home to Forrest Hill. “By then I was feeling cold and my wife said I didn’t look too good.” A trip to the hospital confirmed the break. Sixty-eight-year-old Steen said he wasn’t academic so he left school at 15 in 1973. He Before the fall... Long-time electrician Garry Steen at home in Forrest Hill To page 2 with a photo taken just before he fell and broke his hand
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