Firstly, this is a link to the comprehensive Our City Tomorrow- Draft Spatial Plan

and another one to a Summary of Our City Tomorrow – Draft Spatial Plan

See more at https://wellington.govt.nz/have-your-say/consultations

Also see –https://www.keepwellingtonscharacter.com

A number of people have written articles about this, and we will add them here as we become aware of them.

An interview with the Mayor in Scoop, August 12th: ‘Andy Foster on saving Wellington’s character areas’.

Two articles from Scoop News taken from submissions to WCC at the meeting on 6th August which approved this plan going out for public consultation:

‘Creating Communities not Demolishing Old Homes’ – submission by Roland Sapsford http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=130136#more-130136 

and

‘Two generations of support for Wellington’s character areas; warning of “foolish” deregulation’ – Submissions by Felicity Wong, the chair of Historic Places Wellington, and Gregor Thompson a student living in Newtown who also works with HPW. http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=130086 

‘Safe as Houses’ in Capital Magazine, also written by Gregor Thompson https://capitalmag.co.nz/2020/08/13/safe-as-houses/

Why bother with consultation? by Benoit Pettit in Scoop, August 31st

‘The ‘Lefties’ who want less housing’ – Dileepa Fonseka’s piece for Newsroom, 31st August https://www.newsroom.co.nz/the-lefties-who-want-less-housing

‘What my Labour mates won’t admit about the Wellington Housing Market ‘-Dave Armstrong’s column in the Dominion Post and and on Stuff on 1st September

‘Comment: Why I wouldn’t buy an apartment in Wellington‘ by Georgina Campbell in NZ Herald, 3rd September

‘Battle brewing over Wellington’s ‘heritage hellholes’‘ also by Georgina Campbell in NZ Herald, 4th September

‘Getting it wrong about population growth’ by Hugh Rennie in Scoop, 4th September http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=130749

‘‘Keeping Wellington’s character’ means keeping people in cold and mouldy homes’ by Isla Stewart in The Spinoff, 4th September

‘Want to build high-rise homes for 74,000 more people in Wellington? Build consensus first‘ by Max Rashbrooke in The Guardian, 6th September

“Defending the Streets of Newtown” by James Fraser September 24th http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=131204#comment-1764273

“A Tightrope Act in Newtown” by Gregor Thompson September 25th http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=131231

“Left against left – but there is common ground” by Ben Schrader, September 30th http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=131360