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Justice for Manners
Justice For Manners
While Wellington waits for the Environment Court to do its job it is important to remember we as citizens had an opportunity to exercise, under the Local Government Act 1974, our right to appeal the Council's ( 8-5 ) decision to revoke the pedestrian status of Manners Mall.
The Court heard a side of the story which is as colourful as Manners Mall itself unfolding its history revealing the Mall was indeed a compromise for the Urban Motorway which swallowed 50 hectares of heritage land and buildings in Thorndon. When fellow Wellingtonians cried out about the desecration of 3.700 graves in the Bolton Street Cemetery in the sixties, Manners Mall was born.
It seems shameless to even contemplate the decision by the Council of today has ignored those voices from yesteryear where the City is Ours Inc. felt duty bound to cry out one more time before this sacred Mall was turned over to more roadway in ignorance of the past
Manners Mall means a lot of things to as many people and each in their own way have connections with what has become the Heart of our City.
Manners Mall lost will mean just that and Wellington will lose more then just "open space" it will lose its neighbourhood and its voice.
ENDS
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