October 2019 meeting of GRA

Please join us for our October residents meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Monday the 14th in the small conference room of the Liberal Catholic Church, on the corner of Claremont Street and Carlton Gore Road. There is one main topic on the agenda, and that is City Centre Masterplan refresh. (article linked here) It’s pretty […]

24 hours left to vote!

You have literally 24 hours left to vote in this year’s local elections. The last day to send your voting papers in the post was Tuesday 8 October. If you missed the date, you can still drop them in a ballot box until midday on Saturday 12 October 2019 at any Auckland Council library or service centre during opening hours. You […]

Should Grafton care about the City Centre MasterPlan refresh?

The short answer is YES! Every change to the CBD proper has direct flow on effects in Grafton. When the Southern Motorway was built 50+ years ago, it cut Grafton in half. When the CBD liquor bans went into effect ~15 years ago, many of the problems were exported to Grafton. When Auckland Transport’s Central […]