The Newtown Residents’ Association Meeting
Monday August 17th 2020 will now be on
Zoom, 7.30pm-9.00pm

This meeting will focus on the Wellington City Council Planning for Growth Consultation, and what the proposals would mean for Newtown. We will be joined by Councillor Iona Pannet, who holds the urban development portfolio.

A number of Newtown Residents’ Association members and colleagues have already been sent the Zoom meeting link. If you haven’t received this and would like to attend please email newtownwellington@gmail.com, preferably before 6pm tomorrow, Monday 17/8.

Have you had a look at the Our City Tomorrow -Draft Spatial Plan yet?  Please do, and have a look at the section on Newtown – under Inner City Suburbs. The current proposal is that most of Newtown should be made available for 6 storey buildings. Those of us who have looked at the plans have many concerns about the extent of this, and this is what we will be discussing tomorrow. 

There was a WCC webinar on Planning for Growth on Thursday 13/8, and if you didn’t attend you can view the recording on the consultation page. You can also see the schedule for visits by the Planning for Growth Team to our suburbs, with the note that this might change due to COVID-19 alert levels. See https://planningforgrowth.wellington.govt.nz for both of these – scroll down for the links.

We are proposing to convene another meeting when we are back in Level 1, so if you don’t join us  tomorrow on Zoom there will be another opportunity to discuss the issues and to talk about making  submissions to WCC in response to the draft plan.