Jason Pickens

Rain gardens are essential to Long Bay infrastructure, helping to filter rainwater runoff before it reaches our waterways. These specially designed gardens absorb and treat stormwater, reducing pollutants and preventing flooding. They play a crucial role in the Awaruku and Vaughans Stream catchments, where natural water quality treatments have been integrated into the streetscape and […]

Hi LBRA Members and locals, Time has flown by and I can’t believe we’re into February 2025 already! Hopefully everyone is enjoying the great summer weather of late. Lots to cover in this update for November, December and January, so let’s get stuck in! Major Activities/Initiatives: Predator Free NZ Funding: Traps/Bait Station Consent (and Weed

Hi LBRA Members and locals, On Wednesday the 16th October we held our 10th Anniversary Annual General Meeting (AGM). This was an excellent opportunity to meet the LBRA board members, local board & community groups and of course fellow residents. The event included AGM formalities, updates from the local board and key organisations, plus information

Hi LBRA Members and locals, What an amazing month September was for LBRA and Long Bay! Here’s a recap: Imagining Te Oneroa ō Kahu (Long Bay) – Protecting the Jewel Many of us living in the new subdivision in Long Bay feel privileged to live next to the taonga (treasure) that is the Long Bay

Hi LBRA Members and locals, August was a month with plenty of planning going on in anticipation of a busy September and upcoming news/happenings, which we’ll update you on in due course. Pest Control Survey and Predator Free NZ Funding In early August we released our LBRA Pest Control Survey, in coordination with our joint

Amazing News! The Long Bay Residents’ Association in collaboration with Restore Hibiscus and Bays have won funding from Predator Free NZ to engage homeowners and roll out traps in residential areas to further protect the jewels of Long Bay – the Regional Park and Marine Reserve, encouraging native birdlife to flourish. The media release can be found here: Fresh

Hi LBRA Members and locals, In July it was a slightly cooler month including for LBRA, but still plenty going on behind the scenes! Vaughans Road Closure: Auckland Transport (AT) Report to Hibiscus and Bays Local Board One of the outcomes we’d been waiting for was the forward plan for Vaughans Road, with the options

Are you keen to help bring more native birds and fauna into the Long Bay neighbourhood? Let’s make Long Bay Predator Free! Long Bay residents are invited to complete this survey which should take approximately 3-5 minutes. Click the following link:     http://bit.ly/lbrapest Restore Hibiscus and Bays have 9 traps deployed in the bush around Long Bay and

TL;DR; Vaughans Road Closure to remain in place. No viable funded options were presented by AT to HBLB on 16th July. AT will attempt to re-work an option to meet a $2 million funding limit and return to present option(s) again in the future with no timeframe given. Long Bay and Okura Residents are urged

The colder times are here, but despite that, we’ve had a hectic June with a number of events, connections, news, publicity in the local magazines and an in-person submission on the draft Regional Land Transport Plan. We started out by welcoming a Long Bay College student as a representative to the LBRA board, welcoming Gauri