Kia ora !
This is a quick email to tell you that the Council teams are inviting you to be part of the Courtenay Place cleanup on Monday 19 June. Also included in this update is info about recent Pōneke Promise team activities, plus letting you know about our upcoming AGM.
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Courtenay Place cleanup - Monday 19 June 2023
- info from WCC:
Runsheet : Monday 19 June 2023,
9.00am-1.00pm (rain or shine!)
Over one day and working with businesses, Wellington City Council (WCC) is coordinating a community clean-up for Courtenay Place. With a concentrated effort we want to make a visible improvement in the short term and have identified a range of ways to freshen up Courtenay Place. On the day, we’ll see a range of cleaning and graffiti removal happening at hotspots. Businesses will also be out freshening up their spaces. Following this day, empty shops will be activated with artwork, and rubbish bin repairs made over the next month.
WCC’s cleaning and graffiti contractors will be leading the public space mahi, but we’d love to invite volunteers to join us! DCM will be leading waiata first thing, followed by two community litter clean up shifts, and then a post clean up coffee at Te Pokapū Hapori.
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Action |
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DCM waiata in Courtenay Plaza |
Next to Lucky Chicken – all welcome
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9.15am
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Volunteer briefing for shift one
(9.30am-10.30am)
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We will supply all equipment needed.
If you’d like to join for a part of the shift and will miss the briefing, please still check in at the stand near Lucky Chicken so that you can have a H&S briefing and collect equipment
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9.30am-10.30am
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Shift one: Volunteer litter clean-up & warm soapy water scrubbing – East & North (Courtenay Place, Blair St, Allen St) |
Please return equipment to stand near Lucky Chicken |
10.45am
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Volunteer briefing for shift two (11.00am-12.00pm)
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We will supply all equipment needed.
If you’d like to join for a part of the shift and will miss the briefing, please still check in at the stand near Lucky Chicken so that you can have a H&S briefing and collect equipment.
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11.00am-12.00pm
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Shift two: Litter clean-up & warm soapy water scrubbing – West & South (Tory St, Courtenay Place, Te Aro Park)
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Please return equipment to stand at Lucky Chicken
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12.00pm-12.45pm
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Post clean up coffee at Te Pokapū Hapori (105 Manners St) – please come join us!
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All welcome
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If you have any questions, please contact pōneke.promise@wcc.govt.nz
or Clara Breitenmoser on 021 392 436.
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Our Annual General Meeting is coming up!
We are an Incorporated Society so that means we hold an AGM each year so that we can report on what we have been doing over the year.
Please come along
 Here's the information for you to put into your calendar:
- Date: Thursday, 29 June 2023
- Time: 6:30 pm until 7:30 pm
- Location: St Peter's on Willis Garden Room
211 Willis Street (entrance off Ghuznee Street) Wellington,
We'll be sending you the agenda very soon and an RSVP form (and we'll put the information up on the website too).
But here's a teaser ... there'll be some great news from local car-sharing company Mevo to share with you.
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ICW working with the Pōneke Promise team
2022-23 Update
During 2022 and 2023 changes to Covid-19 restrictions enabled us to meet more regularly again with the Pōneke Promise team and separately with the City Safety team.
In 2023, these have become a combined meeting, and we meet every 4 to 6 weeks.
In preparation for two of our recent meetings we ran two surveys with local residents to gauge how they were feeling about the inner-city. That enabled us to directly raise questions and concerns relating to matters such as:
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the look and feel of Courtenay Place
for example: issues such as graffiti, general litter, grubby pavements, broken rubbish bins;
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inner-city safety
for example: issues such as dark areas, closed neglected shops fronts, rough sleepers, local thefts and incidents;
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the continuing impact of the closed Reading Centre
for example: wanting progress information about the closed Reading Centre and its car park. Residents shared that the Centre was once a family-friendly space which also offered a no-alcohol, under-cover space enjoyed by school students and families with children. The recent closure of McDonalds in the Centre has added to the sense of decline and lack of care about a once vibrant Courtenay Place.
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We believe the contribution of your feedback - which we summarised and graphed anonymously so that we could share it - has helped to inform some recent Council team activities. However we know much more needs to be done and we will continue to make these meetings, and providing your feedback, a priority.
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Recent Pōneke Promise information
The Pōneke Promise team delivered a two-year review report to Councillors on Tuesday 30 May.
And, here are some recent documents provided by the Pōneke Promise team.
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Your feedback
We are keen to hear your latest thoughts about the inner-city - the good and perhaps not so good too - so that we can bring your feedback to the meetings. (They will remain anonymous.)
 For example, what are your thoughts about the recent improvement to the Te Aro Park area with its wider pavements and the removal of the toilet block - what difference if any has it made for you?
And what do you think about the look and feel of the inner-city - for example Courtenay Place, Manners Street, Cuba Street etc - and what suggestions do you have that the Council's teams and/or the community could consider?
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