Raumati Against Kainga Ora

10/05/2024

Well well, they have cut the blackberry on the North face of the dunes, visible from the cycle track they plan to move or close. It occurs they will be considering moving the fill from the Dunes into the E-way drainage area which will conceivably increase flooding to Rata Road and Ihakara Street.

Gathering info from Hamilton neighbour groups who are experiencing after build hell when 20 units went up where none previously were has revealed many interesting facts.
1) frequent smashed rear vision mirrors so inability to park own or visitors cars on the street
2) inability for women to walk and get exercise locally du to menacing behaviour, gym membership now required for activity, this has ramifications for our cycleways too.
3) pets threatened
4) children upset by audible or visible brawling on the regular
And the list goes on. They are forced to have a liaison committee with Kainga Ora and Police so the constant incidents are addressed. Of course addressing things is not seeing residents reimbursed for damage or time and effort getting things fixed. Why open the door to lifelong problems, the Hamilton neighbours are over it now and many attempting to sell out. A once nice safe peaceful suburb is seeing flight and is now only appealing to investors after a bargain. They can let too people who don't care about trouble.

Neighbours to Kainga Ora complexes can expect what this man suffers, hear from him the voice of experience. With our older population demographic the health effects like those described will be very real if Council rubber stamps the ruin of the suburb.

A man who moved from Auckland to get away from nightmare neighbours found another set next door when he arrived at a Hamilton Kāinga Ora house.

15/03/2024

Time for a sanity check of KO by looking at some of their recent ballhead submissions to councils.
In a recent submission to Waimak District Council it recommended
- deleting a clause requiring consulting with local Maori
- negating a clause to say you can't build where climate change adds hazards.
Such ethical and responsible developers. Trust them, they know what they are doing

14/03/2024

:) :) :) Worth a read.

The state landlord says the development, which residents have fiercely opposed, "no longer stacks up".

28/02/2024

And it begans as the reality registers that they could never really afford it, Megan with her fantasies of moving city's problem populations to naive unsuspecting little towns.

Kāinga Ora says 130-lot development no longer viable due to ‘significant’ rises in construction and infrastructure costs

26/02/2024

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mt-albert-emergency-incident-two-people-critically-injured/RGBBZ5EK6RC7XPTPPTVFCSW4FU/

In 2020, newsroom.co.nz reported Kāinga Ora had spent $300,000 on security guards to ease concerns about one resident at the housing complex on He Ana Way.

Police, an ambulance and a fire truck are on the scene at Asquith Ave.

30/01/2024

No comment is really needed, tell us something we don't know Ms Herald property reporter - but why is Mr Laracy of the local business association promoting a development counter to local businesses interests? Roll on local body elections as that kind of a councilor needs sorting out,

A state housing agency boss says Kāinga Ora has heard nothing from the lobby group.

28/01/2024

The mystery of why Paraparaumu and Raumati have no marae is solved. The Maori fled to higher ground. What glistens is not always gold.
This is Tsunami country. Take careful note of this fact Kainga Ora.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive tsunami that slammed into the North Island’s west coast some 600 years ago, raising intriguing questions ab

24/01/2024

Crime sodden areas get police patrols only a third of the time. This is how it is in one crime sodden area where substance abusers are attracted by the liquor store. Like the one at the beach shops.
Restaurants must es**rt customers to their car afterwards, shops are told to allow blatant shop lifting. Just a taste of what is to come.
And Police only say - make sure to report everything and a few more hours may be allocated. But why commit if they won't?
It is not like we have a force that is a force in community presence, bobbies on the beat and fear of capture are so last century. There will be anarchy and tears before bedtime.

Business owners in Pt Chevalier say they have to es**rt customers back to their cars as vagrants take over the town with seeming impunity.

23/01/2024

Dirty filthy dealings - K.O. reassures of notification then seeks non notification once it has sniffed the wind and discovered it is not dealing with pushovers. Slippery snakes slithering about.

Locals are livid Kāinga Ora and the council applied for a non-notified resource consent to start earthworks. But Kāinga Ora insists they will still engage with the community.

12/01/2024

Latest update - per KO website Dec 2023 - is there will be 32 new KO homes in Kapiti to be achieved it seems through adding density to existing properties! Sanity is to create new burbs, don't wreck old ones. Lots of land on transmission gulley going to waste too.

But also, is that some dying whimpers we can hear? The Raumati board group met with KO recently and it was told 3 things of interest
1) It may not go ahead
2) If it does it will not be entered from Raumati Rd due to the obvious traffic hazard, but poor old Kiwi Road will be used
3) Delays in assessing feasibility mean that they are only just contracting initial assessments, and so these should be completed mid-2024, after which a decision will come.

Might as well save themselves the coin by drawing a line under this now. This is not economic. It is bad flood planning, and it is not sane. The demand is for singles, they do not need schools.

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/mysppau/uploads/redactor_assets/documents/d32f96c7c734346d465cde149f6e4284afed9dd097361fe2e789e25388a07ae2/16610/KO532_Porirua__Ka%CC%84piti_Overview_Brochure_FINAL.pdf

12/01/2024

Interesting. The Kainga Ora maps formerly showing Raumati as a development site (black light - early planning stage) now show no such thing. What can this mean? Are the resources now being funneled where they belong?

18/12/2023

Kainga Ora wastefulness appears too outrageous for National to even fully disclose yet. Clearly though it can not go on this application of unlimited budgets to reparate unsuited and flood zone land. These blow outs are the stuff of legend Megan What;s ya name. Is that why your aspirational Raumati announcement was nothing but bluster and stardust to curry votes?

The former PM will lead an independent review into the organisation after the housing minister said he did not have confidence in how it was run.