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Mt Cook Spring Fling 2011
Papawai
Neighbours Day 2011
Regular residents meetings and submissions
Mt Cook Newsletters
Mt Cook Slideshow

Welcome to Mt Cook Mobilised

Mount Cook Mobilised (MCM) is a thriving community organisation that advocates for residents in the Wellington suburb of Mount Cook, monitors local developments, maintains Papawai Reserve, and provides information to locals through regular meetings, newsletters and emails. We are affiliated to the Newtown Residents Association.

MCM began in 2007 with a large public meeting at the now demolished YMCA in Tasman St. We were concerned about the building of a supermarket at the site (and the loss of the TSW swimming pool), Memorial Park and its impact on Mt Cook School, and the loss of local heritage buildings.

Issues and developments we are currently monitoring or providing feedback on include:

Supermarkets planned for Tasman St and John St
Memorial Park plans
Bidwill St traffic calming
Adelaide Rd and Drummond St development plans
Basin Reserve traffic management
Housing development in the Production Village site
Massey University building plans.

We are also actively involved in:

Establishing a children’s playground in Hutchison Rd (opposite Te Whaea)
Clearing and planting in Papawai Reserve and Bell Rd Reserve, in monthly working bees
Graffiti removal
A monthly playgroup for preschoolers - Mini Cookies.

If you are interested in finding out more about MCM, or you want to help or make suggestions, please email mtcookmobilised@gmail.com or come to one of our events.

Thanks for your interest.

Mt Cook Spring Fling 2011

This year's Spring Fling community picnic was a rustic affairkids

and grownups had a

Papawai Reservethe name locals have adopted for the area which we have been planting that is between Papawai Terrace and Salisbury Terrace (off Wright Street) - you can't google the name because it is an 'informal name' - officially this area is part of Prince of Wales Park. Along with the fantastic planted area by the stream, there is a big grassy area which is perfect for the Spring Fling.

A blast from the past - Spring Fling 2010

Spring Fling 2010 was great fun. Lots of locals turned out to enjoy the conviviality, and the kids had a ball.

Here are the pictures from 2010:

Cook Strait News captured the mood of the day with It's Hip to Hop (17 November 2010).

See Brent's photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mtcookmobilised/SpringFlingOct2010#

Papawai

Papawai Reserve and Stream are a special place to Mt Cookies.

Read about our recent fish spotting trip

Neighbours Day 2011

We are running a prize draw for Mt Cook residents who organise something with their Neighbours anytime on the weekend of 26-27 March. The Mt Cook Mobilised Goodie Basket is a fantastic prize with items donated by many local sponsors.

Enter the draw by noon on Friday 25th March by emailing mtcookmobilised@gmail.com with details of your name, phone number, neighbourhood and what you are doing for Neighbours Day.

Find out more about Neighbours Day in Mt Cook and around the country, including details of our sponsors.

This from Scoop Wellington (14 March 2011) http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32859

Happy Neighbours Day!

Regular residents meetings and submissions

A core group of Mt Cook people meets every four to six weeks to discuss issues that affect them and to organise various things to advance the interests of local residents, such as: petitioning and submissions to Council, publishing a newsletter, conducting a cleanup, and events including local candidates meetings, urban planning and design. To see when our next meeting is, 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.

Mt Cook Mobilised submission on Bidwill Street Proposed Changes

In early March 2010 a group of residents from Bidwill Street met with WCC Traffic Engineers to start the dialogue about how to reduce the volume of traffic on Bidwill Street. In June a safety audit was begun after a serious pedestrian accident. At the end June a WCC proposal was posted out to all residents in Bidwill Street and Anderson Terrace, proposing the introduction of a phasing delay to allow pedestrians time to cross ahead of cars, and the removal of six coupon parks to allow two lanes of traffic to exit Bidwill Street. The latter part of the proposal was not favoured by residents.

Mt Cook Mobilised put in a submission on the proposal, based on feedback gathered from Bidwill Street residents. You can read it 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.

In August 2011 Mt Cook Mobilised attended a workshop on roading changes west of the Mt Victoria Tunnel, hosted by NZTA to answer questions about their two preferred, but rather similar, options A & B.

The Architectural Centre gave a presentation at Mt Cook School on their vision - less road, more urban design, which they called Option X.

To read Mt Cook Mobilised's formal submission to NZTA in August 2011 view here (143kb pdf file).

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.

In February 2010, after approval of Foodstuffs' Resource Consent, members of Mt Cook Mobilised and representatives from Mt Cook School met with Foodstuffs and Urban Perspectives (Foodstuffs' Urban Planning consultants). Concerns were re-stated, and a further letter (pdf 236kb) sent to Foodstuffs after the meeting.

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).

Newsletter number 5 - February 2010 - can be downloaded by clicking on this link (884kb pdf file).

Newsletter number 6 - June 2010 - can be downloaded by clicking on this link (700kb pdf file).

Newsletter number 7 - September 2010 - can be downloaded by clicking on this link (750kb pdf file).

Newsletter number 8 - February2011 - can be downloaded by clicking on this link (4.31MB pdf file).

Newsletter number 9 - August 2011 - can be downloaded by clicking on this link (940kb 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.