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Welcome to Mt Cook Mobilised - the wiki for active local residents

Welcome to Mt Cook Mobilised - the wiki for active local residents

This is a quick to build and edit website. It is for planning local actions to retain and thougtfully develop facilities in the Wellington suburb of Mt Cook.

To explore issues and options relevant to the development of Mt Cook, use the side bar to the right.

Site visitors can leave comments, and working groups will be able to create and modify pages. If you want to add content, new pages and organise through this site, please contact the us by email requesting write access.

Mt Cook Mobilised - a local residents group

To understand why we formed please view a summary of our first meeting - a local event organised to discuss issues concerning Mt Cook residents that attracted over 200 locals and supporters. See also PUBLIC MEETING - 21 August 2007

If you want more information about the Mt Cook Mobilised group's activities, or you want to help or make suggestions, please email mtcookmobilised@gmail.com or come to one of our regular residents meetings.

Thanks for your interest.

Regular residents meetings

A core group of Mt Cook people meet every four to six weeks to discuss issues that effect them and to organise various things to advance the interests of local resident, such as: petitioning and submissions to Council, publishing a newsletter, conducting a cleanup, and events including local candidates meetings, urban planning and design, contributing to Newtown Fare. To see about our next meeting, view the sidebar to the right (in the yellow box) or visit our Regular residents' meetings page for more details.

Submissions to Wellington City Council

Mt Cook Mobilised submission on Adelaide Road development

To find out more about Wellington City Council's Draft Adelaide Road Framework and to view our submission - click here Word file).

Mt Cook Mobilised submission on LTCCP - pre-consultation period February 2009

To view our submission on the Wellington City Council's Long Term Council Community Plan (LTCCP) click here (pdf file).

And here is Wellington City Council's reply to our submission.

Mt Cook Mobilised submission on District Plan Change 73 - Centres

DP change 73 will incorporate the feedback from Council's Adelaide Rd Framework into the District Plan. Building heights in Adelaide Rd are proposed to be higher. Car parking is not required for the new residents in Adelaide Rd. Suburban Centres will be known as 'Centres'.

To read an introduction to how the proposed changes affect Mt Cook, and our submission click here.

Other Submissions

Mt Cook Mobilised informal submission to NZTA on Basin Reserve Roading

The Basin Reserve roading project is being run by NZ Transport Agency together with Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and the Minstry of Culture and Heritage. NZTA is also consulting over 30 groups with an interest in roading decisions around the Basin Reserve. Mt Cook Mobilised is one of the interested groups.

To read the informal submission made by Mt Cook Mobilised in January 2010 view here.

Foodstuffs Discussions

Prior to Foodstuffs submitting their Resource Consent application in 2009, Mt Cook Mobilised met with them in July 2009 to discuss concerns. Mt Cook Mobilised followed up with a letter (pdf 261Kb).

After Foodstuffs submitted their Resource Consent application to Council Mt Cook Mobilised sent a further letter (pdf 182Kb) to Council in August 2009.

Mt Cook Newsletters

The inaugural newsletter (July 2008), compiled by the Mt Cook Mobilised group, can be downloaded by clicking on this link (1.1MB pdf file)

Download the November 2008 newsletter from Mt Cook Mobilised by clicking on this link (1.1MB pdf file).

Newsletter number 3 - May 2009 - can be downloaded by clicking on this link (4.73MB pdf file)

Newsletter number 4 - September 2009 - can be downloaded by clicking on this link (5.19MB pdf file).

Mt Cook Slideshow

Please contact Geoff to add further images that characterise the memorable aspects of Mt Cook.

Defining Mt Cook

Taken from the Mt Cook, Mt Victoria, Oriental Bay, Roseneath and Te Aro (399Kb PDF) Suburban map provided by the Wellington City Council

Problems arise when this map is compared to maps used as a point of reference for District Plan changes such as 38 and 39, see below. The above map indicates that a larger inner city area is included in Mt Cook and therefore could, or should, have its heritage character preserved. We have yet to clarify if the parts of Mt Cook excluded from the map below are instead included in the Cuba or Courteney Place "Character Areas" as suggested in the map for Aro Valley, Te Aro, Mt Cook, Mt Victoria in District Plan- Volume 3.