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Kia ora Brooklyn Bear,

Thank you for your email dated 15 August requesting information.

Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 which requires us to provide a decision as soon as possible, but no later than 12 September, being 20 working days of receipt.

The reference number for your request is IRC-8942

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brooklyn Bear <[FOI #32015 email]>
Sent: Friday, 15 August 2025 10:52 am
To: BUS: Official Information <[Wellington City Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Hawkins Hill Road - more important road than it seems?

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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

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Kia ora Brooklyn Bear
 
Thank you for your email of ​15 August 2025, to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke |
Wellington City Council (the Council), requesting the following
information: 
 

* 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. 

* Who was supportive and who wasn't.  

* How does one raise the possibility of classifying the road into public
use (it is already publicly used after all, but to determine it so
that it is looked after by the roading contractors and not by the
Parks department)? 
* 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).  

* 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. 

 
Your request is being considered under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA).  
 
This letter is to advise you that the Council needs to extend the due date
of your response for 10 working days, pursuant to section 14(1)(b) of the
LGOIMA, as consultations necessary to make a decision on the request are
such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably be made
within the original time limit. 
 
For this reason, you can expect a response from the Council no later than
​26 September 2025.
 
You have the right, by way of complaint under section 27(3) of the LGOIMA,
to request an investigation and review of the Council’s decision to extend
by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available
at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.  
 
If you require further information, please contact
[2][Wellington City Council request email].  
 
 
Nāku noa, nā 

Asha Harry

Official Information | Wellington City Council
E [3][email address] | W [4]Wellington.govt.nz 

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From: BUS: Official Information <[email address]>
Sent: 18 August 2025 10:09
To: Brooklyn Bear <[FOI #32015 email]>
Cc: BUS: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Hawkins Hill Road - more
important road than it seems?
 
Kia ora Brooklyn Bear,

Thank you for your email dated 15 August requesting information.

Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 which requires us to provide a decision
as soon as possible, but no later than 12 September, being 20 working days
of receipt.

The reference number for your request is IRC-8942

Please contact us if you have any further questions.

Kind regards

Official Information & Privacy Team
Email: [Wellington City Council request email]
Wellington City Council | W Wellington.govt.nz | |

The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and
intended for the addressee only.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that
confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents.
If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the
sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brooklyn Bear <[FOI #32015 email]>
Sent: Friday, 15 August 2025 10:52 am
To: BUS: Official Information <[Wellington City Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Hawkins Hill Road - more important
road than it seems?

[You don't often get email from
[FOI #32015 email]. Learn why this is
important at [5]https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentific... ]

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."

[6]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

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

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Kia ora Brooklyn Bear
Please see attached response to your request for information. 
Kind Regards

Asha Harry

Official Information | Wellington City Council
E [1][email address] | W [2]Wellington.govt.nz 

The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and
intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient,
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this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is
appreciated

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From: BUS: Official Information <[email address]>
Sent: 12 September 2025 16:12
To: Brooklyn Bear <[FOI #32015 email]>
Cc: BUS: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: IRC-8942: Official Information request - Hawkins Hill Road - more
important road than it seems?
 
Kia ora Brooklyn Bear
 
Thank you for your email of ​15 August 2025, to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke |
Wellington City Council (the Council), requesting the following
information: 
 

* 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. 

* Who was supportive and who wasn't.  

* How does one raise the possibility of classifying the road into public
use (it is already publicly used after all, but to determine it so
that it is looked after by the roading contractors and not by the
Parks department)? 
* 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).  

* 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. 

 
Your request is being considered under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA).  
 
This letter is to advise you that the Council needs to extend the due date
of your response for 10 working days, pursuant to section 14(1)(b) of the
LGOIMA, as consultations necessary to make a decision on the request are
such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably be made
within the original time limit. 
 
For this reason, you can expect a response from the Council no later than
​26 September 2025.
 
You have the right, by way of complaint under section 27(3) of the LGOIMA,
to request an investigation and review of the Council’s decision to extend
by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available
at [3]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.  
 
If you require further information, please contact
[4][Wellington City Council request email].  
 
 
Nāku noa, nā 

Asha Harry

Official Information | Wellington City Council
E [5][email address] | W [6]Wellington.govt.nz 

The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and
intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient,
you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or
make use of its contents. If received in error, you are asked to destroy
this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is
appreciated

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From: BUS: Official Information <[email address]>
Sent: 18 August 2025 10:09
To: Brooklyn Bear <[FOI #32015 email]>
Cc: BUS: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Hawkins Hill Road - more
important road than it seems?
 
Kia ora Brooklyn Bear,

Thank you for your email dated 15 August requesting information.

Our team will manage your request under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 which requires us to provide a decision
as soon as possible, but no later than 12 September, being 20 working days
of receipt.

The reference number for your request is IRC-8942

Please contact us if you have any further questions.

Kind regards

Official Information & Privacy Team
Email: [Wellington City Council request email]
Wellington City Council | W Wellington.govt.nz | |

The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and
intended for the addressee only.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that
confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents.
If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the
sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brooklyn Bear <[FOI #32015 email]>
Sent: Friday, 15 August 2025 10:52 am
To: BUS: Official Information <[Wellington City Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Hawkins Hill Road - more important
road than it seems?

[You don't often get email from
[FOI #32015 email]. Learn why this is
important at [7]https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentific...

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."

[8]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

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

-------------------------------------------------------------------

This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #32015 email]

Is [Wellington City Council request email] the wrong address for Official
Information requests to Wellington City Council? If so, please contact us
using this form:
[9]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
[10]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

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page.

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