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It’s Mother’s Day this week. Among the mothers celebrated in our feature (pages 16-22) are Manly artist Amanda Moore, who painted this portrait of her son Samuel, from a photograph, while she was in isolation with Covid-19. The work is called Math Tutor, 2022 but when Amanda painted it, she was thinking about the sons of Ukraine and Russian mothers going to war and originally called it ‘Don’t you dare send my son to war’. The painting is a finalist in the Adam Portraiture Award, a biennial competition at Wellington’s NZ Portrait Gallery. Fortyfive finalists were selected from 351 entries. The winner, to be announced on May 26, receives $20,000 and the work goes into the gallery’s collection.
Fast-tracked development is sought for Stanmore Bay residential site
A proposal to build 59 homes on land by the Hibiscus Coast Community RSA is being fast-tracked through the government’s Covid-19 Recovery consenting process.
The developer chose the fast-track route
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because it was likely that an application for resource consent via Auckland Council would have resulted in public notification, given the intensity of what is proposed on land zoned residential-single house. Public notification, with the possibility of Environment Court
appeals, was expected to take a year or more longer than the fast-tracking process. Council, Auckland Transport (AT), Watercare and the owners of neighbouring properties, have all voiced concerns about the proposal.
The 18,248sqm site, at 20 Melia Place and 43A Vipond Road was a significant portion of the RSA’s land, until that organisation sold it. The new owner is KVest Investment Partners Group. Kvest and developer of the continued p2
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