Campbells Bay Community Survey

Why a Survey?
On 1 November 2010 our community board and North Shore City Council (NSCC) cease to exist. The functions currently controlled by them and the Auckland Regional Council that relate to Campbells Bay get distributed to an Auckland Mayor, an Auckland Council, a host of Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) and the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board. In light of these changes, we want to create the opportunity to coordinate our planning and work together to influence our future.

Your Residents and Ratepayers Organisation, with the encouragement and support of the NSCC and its CEO, John Brockies, has been taking a lead with other North Shore Residents groups in being proactive to develop a “ground up” approach to planning our future. We have identified some excellent examples, including the prize-winning Porirua City “Village Planning” model www.pcc.govt.nz/Community and the North Sydney Council Community Precincts scheme www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au . There is also the 2010 prize-winning Sustainable Paremoremo development www.parepublisher.co.nz .

There are two parts to this initiative:
• Working with other community groups to help the new Auckland Council and its local boards recognise and accept local community participation in district planning.
• Developing our own Campbells Bay Community Plan so we have authority from you, the residents, to ask for what we want for our future “social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being”.

A Mandate for Planning
The survey responses will give us - your community plan group – some of the information we need to prepare a plan for the Campbells Bay Community. We would grateful if you took a few minutes to do the survey. Please deliver it by one of the methods given on the back page. We are not limiting our vision to traditional “Council” issues. We want to understand our community's desires for the future of our families, neighbours and environment.

We look forward to working together.

Max Thomson
Chairman, Campbells Bay Residents & Ratepayers Association

Community Survey

Your Community Plan Team is finalising a survey form for a letterbox drop so expect one in your letterbox in the next few weeks.

Any questions or thoughts, email campbellsbayrandr at gmail dot com.

AGM - Wednesday 14 April 2010 - 7pm "What’s great about Campbells Bay and how can we improve it?"

At 7pm we had tea and coffee before a short AGM at 7.30pm. Following that our Mayor, Andrew Williams, shared his perception of what has been achieved in Campbells Bay and the North Shore in the past few years and commented on his fears for the future of our "Village" and the North Shore in general with the move to "Supercity" governance.

John McGowan, Principal of Campbells Bay School, shared his view on how the school contributes to the community and how fortunate we are to have such well supported schools in the Bays.

We launched our theme for the year "What’s great about Campbells Bay and how can we improve it?" and the meeting provided the initial ideas for our Campbells Bay Village Plan which will be developed over the next few months.

If you have ideas please add them as a comment on this blog posting or email them to the Chairman.

Improving Our Neighbourhood - Public Meeting - Wed 10 March

John Brockies, CEO of North Shore City Council, gave us an update on progress with the implementation of the Auckland supercity legislation and shared an insight into how we can work positively within the changed infrastructure. Rebecca Harrington, Community Development Worker, talked about the potential to improve our Campbells Bay Neighbourhood.

The meeting gave the committee a mandate to proceed with a pilot Village Planning programme following the workshop on Monday 15 March along with a Know Your Neighbour initiative, possibly linked to Neighbourhood Watch.