Eden-Kingsland Society Inc.
We are a voice for the diverse communities in the areas of Kingsland and Maungawhau stations. Our purpose is to protect for future generations the special character areas in these catchments. We also support the rejuvenation of the extensive under-utilised sites around those areas.
Why the Society was formed
The Eden Kingsland Society was formed to give local residents a clear and organised voice. We focus on planning, development and other changes that affect the character and liveability of the neighbourhood. We support sensible growth, but believe it should be well considered and responsive to the place it is happening in. Cities need to change; they do not need to change carelessly.
Committee
The Society is supported by a small group of people who give their time, knowledge and practical help to the neighbourhood. We see ourselves as kaitiaki of a place inherited from earlier generations and worth passing on with care. We meet as often as the work requires. One of the unexpected benefits has been that, while trying to protect the neighbourhood we've accidentally made more of a neighbourhood out of it.
We are: Claudia Pond-Eyley, Georgina Pickford, Graeme Hodgson, Michael Neill, Malcolm O'Neill, Guida Lawrence, Nick Tunnicliff, Stephen Craen, Richard Somerville-Ryan
What We Support
We support thoughtful growth, good design and more housing in the right places. We support protecting the character, trees and built heritage that give Mt Eden and Kingsland their identity. We support investment in transport, infrastructure and public spaces that keeps pace with development. Above all, we support planning that is evidence-based, transparent and shaped with the community rather than simply done to it.
What We Don't Support
We do not support intensification driven by political targets rather than good planning. We do not support housing that leaves future residents without adequate sunlight, privacy, green space, transport, infrastructure or everyday amenity. We do not support decisions that ignore changing patterns of work, movement and community life. More housing matters, but so does whether the places created are genuinely liveable.