Massey Birdwood Settlers

Representing Massey Residents and Ratepayers

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Information about Henderson Massey Local Board – for all aspiring candidates

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About the Henderson-Massey area
The Henderson-Massey Local Board area is located at the western end of the Waitemata Harbour. It includes the Te Atatu Peninsula and the suburbs of West Harbour, Westgate, Ranui, Massey, Henderson and Glendene.
Main retail areas are in Henderson and the Massey/Westgate shopping centre. Business activity is also concentrated along the Lincoln Road corridor. Te Atatu town centre is a vibrant neighbourhood centre.
Henderson town centre has a significant local government presence at the Waitakere Central complex, key government services and the Unitec campus. The town centre has an integrated bus and train station, with enhanced access to the heart of the civic, retail and business district.
The area is home to several cultural and recreational facilities, including the Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson Valley Studios, West Wave Aquatic Centre, The Trusts Stadium, the Netball Waitakere complex and Massey Leisure Centre. Both Opanuku and Oratia streams flow through Henderson and provide significant environmental, recreational and amenity benefits to the area.
The Henderson town centre is also the base of Te Whanau o Waipareira Trust’s activities.
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Local Government Elections

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The local Government Elections are looming and the Association encourages everyone to vote. Whether your young or old, male or female, white or brown , yellow or pink, the right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights that we have in this country.

The Association itself does not support any candidates

John Riddell
John Riddell
However it does wish Secretary John Riddell and executive member Warren Flaunty all the best in their election campaigns.

We understand that Warren will be contesting the Rodney Local Board, the Trust and Health Board while John will be contesting the Henderson Massey Local Board. Both boards have common boundaries with the Association.

Warren Flaunty
Warren Flaunty

In years gone by, before the 1989 Local Government reforms, and the creation of Community Boards, resident and ratepayers associations like ours were the Community Boards and Local Boards of today and completely voluntary.

Now days Community Boards have been replaced by Local Boards, and it has fallen back to voluntary organisations like ours to take on the role of Community Watchdog and ensure our roads are safe, our parks are maintained, and a voice is heard opposing a sky tower being built next to your home.

The Association has been lucky to have had elected members ( Allen Davies, John Riddell and Warren Flaunty) on Councils, Community Boards and Local Boards serving on the its executive. Their collective and individual knowledge has helped the Association over the years achieve things for the community and of course the Association, its hall and many users have benefited from their govern ship experience.

If you would like to learn about the workings of Council and your community, by joining the Association you can cut your teeth on Council affairs and one day stand yourself for elected office knowing that you would know the language of local government. Alternatively you can remain in the back ground and assist the Association to grow and survive another 88 years of serving the community.

Massey Employment Programme – 2013

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Finding a job can be a long and winding road, fraught with frustration.

This year we have been lucky enough to secure a second lot of funding to run the Massey Employment Gateway Programme. Organised by Enterprising Communities, Workers Educational Association (WEA), Waitakere Literacy, Massey Matters and other partners, the project is being funded by a grant from ACE Aotearoa. The Programme is also being supported by the Massey Community Trust, the Massey Community House, Massey Birdwood Settlers Association, Leataata O Tupulaga O Le Pasefika early childhood centre in Moire Road as well as some of our local Primary Schools.

Massey and NorWest residents can register their interest for an eight week “Get Employment Ready” Course and gain a work related certificate, a sharp CV, improved interview skills and support from a mentoring coach to become job ready.

Registrations can be made at Massey Community House on Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th July between 9.30am and 11.20am.

Running alongside the 8 week programme there will also be a number of “Clinics”. They will be held at venues in the local community. These “Clinics” will provide opportunities for other members of our community to participate in sessions on CV Writing, Interview Preparedness, Online Job Search and Be Your Own Boss.

For more information, and to register, phone and leave a message at 837 1471 or text Maxine on 021 525 616.

Watch this space for more information!

Roading information in Henderson Massey Local Board

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As a resident and ratepayer organisation one of our jobs is to keep you update with information that is happening in and around the area that you live in.

You may notice that to the left of this site a link to Auckland Transport.

The Auckland Transport site provides you with detailed information on road works on both interactive maps and lists on the www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz website. These are regularly updated as new information comes to hand from our contractors and other sources and also includes traffic density and other local information. The inquiries can be narrowed down to individual addresses on a map so that as a resident you can personally seek information on the Internet, about conditions on your own street.

Auckland Transport welcomes you to use this information or by accessing the dynamic databases available on the Auckland Transport site when you plan your journey’s around Massey or greater Auckland.

These features can be found at

http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz/traffic-roadworks/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz/traffic-roadworks/CurrentRestrictions/Pages/Road-Works.aspx
http://www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz/traffic-roadworks/CurrentRestrictions/Pages/RoadClosuresEventsInCentralAuckland.aspx

From time to time the Massey Birdwood Settlers website may well feature a story about a particular road works or road closure if we believe such a closure is of great importance to the public and will impact on
our travel for a long period of time.

Lincoln Road Interchange Improvement

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The Lincoln Road Interchange is progressing well and should be finished by the 26th June 2015.

Lincoln rd interchangeFulton Hogan who are leading the construction recently won a safety award at the Auckland Branch agm of the NZ Contractors Federation, for the project.

The project is being being built for the NZ Transport Agency, the value of the project $115 million.

Started in January 2011 the projects vital safety statistics are LTIFR (Long Term Injury) of 4.70 (per million manhours), MITFR (Medical Term Injury) of 11.75 and 881 days since the last LTI. The percentage of zero harm days are 98.53% and the number of hours worked to date on the project 413,916.