This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'Lets Get Wellington Moving - Programme Director Comments'.

   
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9 August 2023 
 
 
 
 
 
Chris McCashin  
 
 
[FYI request #23467 email]  
 
REF: OIA-13089 
 
 
Dear Chris 
 
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982 
 
Thank you for your email of 11 July 2023 requesting information under the Official Information Act 
1982 (the Act). Your request has been numbered as follows, for ease of reference: 
 
1.  Please provide any and all written correspondence from businesses excited about the work 
that LGWM are proposing and see it as a positive change.  This can be emails, thank-you 
cards, file notes, social media postings, flowers, submissions saying how much they want this 
work.  Please "do not provide" gerry mandered surveys, I require all of the correspondence 
and the names of the businesses so I can follow up and verify.  I specifically want examples 
from business not the UN and their sustainable development goals. 
2.  Please provide all the businesses that were involved in the planning, design and 
implementation to shut down these streets.  If no businesses were involved then why not. 
3.  Please provide the cost benefit analysis, companies that were involved, terms of service 
(instruction letters), any conflicts of interest, analysis, recommendations, memos, any and all 
information that was used to gerry mander the outcome you require. 
 
On 21 July 2023, we asked you to clarify and refine the scope of your requests because, as currently 
worded, they are very broad in nature and cannot be met without substantial collation or research. To 
date, we have not received a refined request from you. As such, I am refusing your request under 
section 18(f) of the Act.  
 
Under section 28 of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision to refuse 
this request. The contact details for the Ombudsman can be located at 
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz. 
 
If you would like to discuss this reply with Waka Kotahi, please contact the Ministerial Services team 
by email to [email address]. 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
James Sorensen 
Manager Ministerial Services, Enterprise