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Lindsay Shelton

Wellington Editor at Scoop

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  • 2 weeks ago | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Lindsay Shelton

    by Lindsay SheltonIt seems we’re getting a new and open Civic Square – by accident, and only for five years. But after five years of public open space, will anyone want a new ten-storey building on the site instead?

  • 1 month ago | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Lindsay Shelton

    by Lindsay SheltonThere seemed to be no doubt about why Tory Whanau gave up her ambition to be mayor of Wellington for a second term. The Green mayoral candidate spelled out her change of mind in the NZ Herald: “Now having Andrew Little in the race, I’ve decided I’d like to step aside to give him a clear runway to win the mayoralty.”And more:“I don’t want this mayoral campaign to be about Labour versus Green, progressive versus progressive. That’s not what it should be about.

  • Mar 20, 2025 | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Lindsay Shelton

    by Lindsay SheltonNot much attention was paid in February when the Wellington City Council released a report about Wellington Water. The council accepted the findings of the report. Wellington Water rejected them. Which should have been a warning of what was to come. Published on the city council’s website on February 1, there is a fairly restrained summary of the report which was commissioned by the council from an organisation named FieldForce4.

  • Feb 16, 2025 | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Lindsay Shelton

    by Lindsay SheltonThe sign at the end of our street (and its pole) disappeared in September. I wrote to the Wellington City Council, but six months later they haven’t been able to replace it. I started corresponding with the council in September. I didn’t think I was asking for anything complicated. I sent my first reminder to the council, on September 27:Please advise when the missing street sign for Connaught Terrace, at the intersection with Washington Avenue in Brooklyn, will be replaced.

  • Jan 30, 2025 | wellington.scoop.co.nz | Lindsay Shelton

    by Lindsay SheltonIn terms of core activities, organising exhibitions from overseas is hardly something you’d expect the Wellington City Council to do. And the fact that two of its exhibitions have lost money should come as no surprise. The council doesn’t have entrepreneurial skills. We learnt this week that the third exhibition at Takina, Dr Who, had lost money.

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Lindsay Shelton @LindsayShelto17
15 May 25

Karl Tiefenbacher: $800,000 to re-plan Dixon Street (and that's before any work has started) https://t.co/fH5yrIxtHW

Lindsay Shelton
Lindsay Shelton @LindsayShelto17
15 May 25

RT @salty_kiwi: Judith Collins calling the haka a "lack of civility" really demonstrates how this government only believes that Pākehā cult…

Lindsay Shelton
Lindsay Shelton @LindsayShelto17
15 May 25

Karl Tiefenbacher: $800,000 to re-plan Dixon Street https://t.co/fH5yrIxtHW