The new Meola Road improvement is magnificent. I realise the project is not entirely finished, but take a bow AT and everyone else involved with its planning and building. I returned recently from four months overseas and was reminded what progress Auckland has made.

A recent Environment Court (EC) decision has threatened thousands of “Special Character Homes” in our local areas by allowing owners to demolish their houses without input from the community.

Please reopen Leys Institute. I would be happy to sign a waiver to utilise the building (in case it collapsed in an earthquake in Auckland).

Coxs Bay helicopter application to be publicly notified due to impacts on valuable foraginag habitats and potentially repetitive adverse effects on the environment of the surrounding coastal area.

For as long as the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) has been entertaining and educating Kiwis, local tram enthusiast Alan Curtis has been a familiar face on museum grounds.

There’s a little path in Coxs Bay reserve that winds between Parawai Crescent and the bottom of Bayfield Road with native bush and birds on one side and the paddocks of Kelmarna Community Farm on the other. It’s a small but perfectly formed slice of country in Grey Lynn.