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Takapuna, Milford, Castor Bay, Forrest Hill and Sunnynook ELIVERED FORTNIGHTLY AN INDEPENDENT VOICE Issue 1 – 15 March 2019
ORTNIGHTLY DELIVERED FORTNIGHTLY AN2019 INDEPENDENT VOICE AN INDEPENDENT VOICE Issue 1122019 – August 18,1 –2023 Issue 1 – 15 March Issue 15 March PREMIUM REAL ESTATE LTD LICENSED REAA 2008
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AN INDEPENDENT VOICE Issue 1 – 15 March 2019 Fences come down at new Flood pain lingers for Name actors, director bring town square... p4 Sunnynook, Milford... p9 romcom to Takapuna... p15
Renewed threat of closure hangs over walkway A section of the popular coastal Takapuna-Milford walkway is again under threat, with access across a private property to be blocked if a deal on the site’s future can’t be reached with Auckland Council. Following the collapse of a bridge on the walkway in 2011, the public has had informal
access through a coastal property at Black Rock. This was allowed by owner Paul Firth, who died in 2021. Negotiations with Auckland Council over the walkway and the heritage-listed cottage on the site have dragged on for more than 12 years.
The multiple beneficiaries who have inherited the property have now offered to gift Auckland Council a 1.5m strip on the seaward side of the site in exchange for the removal of the heritage listing of the house, ahead of the site’s sale. To page 2
Mum’s green vision opens Pupuke view
School project... Milford School enviro-club members Kenzy Zaki (left) and Reid Frost-Macky with local mother Kelly Meikle, whose voluntary weed-clearing work has revealed a previously obscured view of Lake Pupuke. Story, page 6.
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