Can Auckland’s advice finally do the impossible and get rid of a (1) golf course?

The last time an Auckland council agency tried to get rid of a golf course, ended in a disaster. Maybe this time it is different.

Auckland’s advice is not known for its ambition. Recently, he refused an 11 -story wood building next to a train station to Protect the value of the heritage of a lot of gravel and a MOBIL station. This took one of its agencies to the Court for going dishonest and trying to build houses. Then returned to court to argue against his own climate plan because feared to be forced to build bike lanes.

Given this, it is a surprise to see the advice trying to perform the only toughest task than replacing a village with housing in the local government’s difficulty meter. If what seems to be most advisers to get what they want, he will half of his golf fields and open the land for activities such as walking, picnics and not being hit in the head by a discharged ride from a local retiree.

The case of the change is robust. In Auckland’s floods in January 2023, much of the area around the Takapuna golf course passed several meters underwater. Two people died. Houses and companies were destroyed. Then the locals asked the board to make sure that this does not happen again. “I got up in front of hundreds of really upset, sometimes angry and flooded communities. They are angry that we have done nothing,” says North Shore’s advisor, Richard Hills.

The board team had the task of discovering a way to prove flooding the area, finding enough space to capture 550,000 liters of water during an intense climate event. The head of sustainable partnerships, Tom Mansell, says that the only real solution they found was to transform half the AF Thomas Park, where the golf course is situated into a swamp. “We had to store huge amounts of water. The only area we have of this amount of land is Thomas. So we had to use it.”

There is political support to the plan. Hills says local national deputies Simon Watts and Dan Bidois have expressed support, along with local councils. Mansell says the government agreed to finance the reconstruction together. Mayor Wayne Brown seems to be on the side, along with most counselors.

All of this is even before mentioning the fact that Auckland’s board currently has 14 golf camps, most of which are almost almost Twice as bigger than Carrington’s reconstruction project Soon, this will deliver another 4,000 houses to relieve the eternal demon of the city from a real estate crisis.

If you think this looks like this project is a Shoo-in, you have not familiar with golfists. The advice has tried something like this before. In 2017, the local council of Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa proposed the reconstruction of half of MT Albert’s golf course in Chamberlain Park in Parkland and needed a lot of sports facilities, and ensuring that people could access transport corridors such as Carrington RD and Northwestern Cycle Path without sustaining a concussion.

A group called Save Chamberlain Park led them to the Supreme Court. He distributed leaflets with stamped intersections in all trees that, according to him, would have to die through the board’s plans. In a meeting I participated in 2019I watched a prominent member of the Auckland Horticulture Society Member, Graeme Easte “Judas East”, and Peter Haynes “Lucifer Haynes”.

Haynes was voted on in local elections a few months later. The entrance to the right -wing communities and residents won the majority of the council and interrupted the plans to rebuild the park.

This is the first time the advice has tried something similar since then, and another rear action has been underway. Golf groups are requesting and emails from the Board on the project according to the local government’s official information and meetings. And emails and calls are coming daily. A Takapuna Golf Field Door Flood mitigation can be incorporated into its existing design.

Hills disagrees, and soon he will find out if his colleagues support him. This week, on Thursday, April 3, the Council’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee will vote for whether to send the proposal of wet areas to a detailed business case. This would give Mansell and his team the ability to move forward with the almost impossible task to really get rid of a (1) golf course.

They would do this with bipartisan political support. The project would undoubtedly save millions of local companies millions of dollars in repairs, and families thousands of insurance awards. If the worst reaches the worst, it could really save lives. On the other hand, the next local election is in October and the hills could soon be Richard Beelzebu. I give them a chance of 50 to 50 success.