June has been an extra busy month so your delayed May update, and June update are being delivered close together! Starting with May 🙂
In May we had our very popular Mix and Mingle Event – Neighbourhood Support with content translated to Chinese and members of the Long Bay Chinese Association participating. The presentations were excellent and informative:
Rebecca Smith and Taylor Lake – Neighbourhood Support / North Shore:
- Neighbourhood Support connects and assists neighbours & communities
- education, crime prevention, information, communication and more
- sign up here and consider being a street contact
- register your CCTV with Community Cam here
- anything in-progress, illegal or needing urgent attention – call 111, non-urgent call 105 or report online
- more details here
Leah Hide – Fire and Emergency NZ:
- home fire safety: alarms, drying clothes, powerboards, cooking, escape plans
- get a free home safety visit from the Fire and Emergency!
- more details here
Gregg Walden – Hibiscus and Bays Local Board:
- emergency resilience in Auckland
- coordination for an emergency hub on the North Shore
- preparedness and response for major events such as floods, volcanic activity, etc.
- for more details please contact Gregg Walden
Mid-month we receive amazingly good news that the Spacenet climbing frame in the Regional Park that was previously destroyed due to vandalism will be reinstated in the coming months! We’d advocated for resolution of this, and were somewhat surprised as we had thought funding was proving to be a significant challenge. Great work by Auckland Council to get this on track!
Following coordination with the Long Bay Village Market organisers you’ll likely see LBRA flags/representation at the Long Bay Village Market going forward, be sure to drop down!
On the 20th of May an awesome event was put on by Sir Peter Blake Marine Education Centre (MERC) staff in association with Long Bay Okura Great Park Society to raise awareness of the Marine Reserve and Long Bay Regional Park, and address concerns about people fishing and taking marine life from the Marine Reserve. This seminar focussed primarily on preserving the wildlife in Marine Reserve with passionate speakers Sara Kulins (her research is here), Patrick Burnham and Yuin Khai Foong presenting their specialist areas of focus. For any compliance issues or general information call 0800 DOC HOT (0800 362468). If you would like to find out more about this event, please reply to this email.
During May, we had a number of interactions with local organisations, community groups and residents including:
- Auckland Council and the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board – there were a number of issues we communicated/discussed including:
- Feedback of improvements to be made in June/July to Vaughans Road/Okura River Road intersection, and Vaughans Road Closure update
- Discussions related to submitting Draft RLTP feedback
- Advising status of land protection on remaining northern western LBRP land parcel – progressing through parliament processes.
- Carparking issues around the village (over 120mins)
- Progress update / status of Lot 601/ 1 Te Oneroa Way
- Piripiri Point undesirable activities / vehicle issues
- Community Centre initiative
- Batter/Bund and Consent related issues
- Rope Climbing Frame in the Long Bay Regional Park
- Imagining Te Oneroa o Kahu workshop update
- Erosion at Long Bay Regional Park
- Te Oneroa Way road issue / brick displacement by the Village shops
- Viranda (Long Bay Village) – on various items relating to the village and cooperation
- Restore Hibiscus and Bays – joint application for Z – Good in the Hood funding and other items. Collective work on a Pest Control community survey – due soo
- Long Bay College – viewed potential venues and coordinated re student representation on the LBRA Board
- Long Bay Village Market – LBRA signs and presence at the monthly Long Bay market
- Long Bay Chinese Association – collaborations on events
- Long Bay Regional Park – met with the park Ranger Wendy and discussed items such as volunteering, the offset planting of trees in the northern area of the park and future objectives in the park.
- Long Bay Okura Great Park Society – notice of MERC Marine Reserve event
- And don’t forget communications with Long Bay Residents in relation to:
- Council rules on decks
- Noise at Ashley Reserve
Upcoming events:
- Held on 15th June – Community Cleanup: Recap to follow in our June update.
- Held on 18th and 25th June – Re-greening Long Bay: Recap to follow in our June update.
- Saturday 21st September, 9.30am: Community Cleanup
Meet outside New World and keep an eye out for Long Bay College Students and LBRA board members in our hi-vis vests, thanks to New World! Coffee afterwards.
Please bring neighbours, friends, gloves and a rubbish bag!
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