Dear Wellington City Council,

Can I have all the documents and information, emails, transcripts, meetings, decisions and consultations that WCC have regarding turning Hawkins Hill Road, Brooklyn into a road or not into a public road on its entire length. In particular who was supportive and who wasn't. And how does one raise the possibility of classifying the road into public use (it is already publicly used afterall, but to determine it so that it is looked after by the roading contractors and not by the Parks department)?.

Also please provide any internal Councillor communication between 2018-2025 (the decision to approve the Tonkin & Taylor Report and reinstall the gate at the Turbine Carpark was made by Councillors at the CSC Meeting 22/11/18). In particular any information supporting or questioning spending the 1.6million on 12 impediments along the road from 2018 - 2025. If you need the search narrowed - happy to take from 2021-2025 instead.

Chris Bishop (Minister of Housing, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Minister of Transport) has made a point on removing the ability from councils to artificially bound cities which I believe the speed humps have done.

He wants to make it easier for cities to expand by abolishing rural-urban boundaries:

"Cabinet has agreed to remove councils’ ability to impose rural-urban boundary lines in their planning documents. We’re proposing that the new resource management system is clear that councils are not able to include a policy, objective or rule that sets an urban limit or a rural-urban boundary line in their planning documents for the purposes of urban containment."

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speec...

Given the uproar about the cost waterfront barriers and Councillors walking away from that spend - one wonders if the spend on Hawkins Hill Road was to indeed prevent subdivision of property or to support its own departmental goals and those it funds like Zealandia and the adjacent reserves, or is it in defiance of the incoming reform? Wellington City owes all rate payers the same service and answers.

Hope you can find what I know you have in your files. It seems that this might be the most important road in Wellington given the 1.6million of failing concrete and extreme amount of hazardous cones that was spent on it - for what exactly?

Yours faithfully,

Brooklyn Bear