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Takapuna, Milford, Castor Bay, Forrest Hill and Sunnynook VERED FORTNIGHTLY AN INDEPENDENT VOICE Issue 1 – 15 March 2019
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Rugby foes do battle in big local derby... p10
$100K probe into new Kennedy Park stairs approved A new set of steps from Castor Bay’s Kennedy Park to the coast will be investigated. And the old closed stairway, damaged by storms in 2019 and 2024, will remain for now despite Auckland Council officers wanting to demolish them as they are unsafe.
The public was “jumping the fence” and using the steps to get to the beach, council’s Kennedy Park project manager Mohammed Sarwar told the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board at its May meeting. However the board voted to keep the stairway during a $100,000 investigation
into new steps. An alternative location might be more expensive than repairing the damaged steps, said board member Terence Harpur. It was important to “keep our options open”. As part of the investigation, officers will To page 2
Cool fun for a cause
True colours... Karen Miller in her Finding Nemo costume was on hand as several hundred people took part in the Live Ocean midwinter dip in support of ocean conservation at Takapuna Beach last Sunday. Crowd picture, story pages 8-9.