1 August 2025
File Ref: IRC-8729
“Brooklyn RatePayer”
[email address]
Tēnā koe,
Thank you for your email dated 11 July 2025 to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Wellington City Council (the
Council) requesting, in summary, the following information:
Please provide any and all information City Council holds about Andy Foster (ex Mayor) about his
involvement in City Council affairs, and with City Council departments since he competed his tenure
as Mayor.
By "information" we mean emails, positions held, any committee representations, expert witness,
traffic and / or infrastructure expertise, official City Council meeting attendance, any requests and / or
recommendations made by him directly or indirectly (through a person representing him). To narrow
the scope, we want information specifically related to or involving Hawkins Hil Road, Wellington
Natural Heritage Trust, Long Gully Bush Reserve, and Zealandia...
Can you confirm if Andy is involved in any of these projects with Wellington City Council (specifically
in the Wrights Hil /Zealandia/Careys Gully/Long Gul y/Te Kopahou areas; and if so, please list the
name of the project, whether it is existing or future, and his involvement and whether that project has
received any Wel ington City Council funding, and value it received. We are only looking for
data/information from October 2022 until July 2025 please (which is since his Mayoral tenure ended
and he became an MP).
Your request has been considered under the Local Government Of icial Information and Meetings Act
1987 (LGOIMA).
A submission was made by the Right Honourable Andy Foster MP against the Proposed District Plan:
Hearing Stream 7 - Notice of Hearing, within this submission the fol owing topics in scope of your
request were referenced:
• Hawkins Hill Road
• Zealandia
More information, including a link to this submission, can be fo
und here.
Outside of this submission, a thorough IT search was undertaken within the Council’s systems, and I
can confirm no other information was found in scope of your request. Therefore, your request is
refused under section 17(d) of the LGOIMA as the requested information is publicly available.
You have the right, by way of complaint under section 28(1) of the LGOIMA, to request an
investigation and review of the Council’s decision to withhold information by the Ombudsman.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
If you require further information, please contact
[Wellington City Council request email].
Nāku noa, nā
Ol ie Marchant
Senior Advisor
Of icial Information & Privacy
Wellington City Council
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