The Dunedin City Council has raised its building consent fees, despite admitting recently they were significantly higher than those in other centres, and despite a review being under way.
The response to what is believed to be the broadest Dunedin City Council opinion survey in more than a decade has left staff "pretty rapt", after more than 4000 people returned hardcopy versions of the survey.
The redevelopment of the Municipal Chambers, in Dunedin, is running about one month behind schedule, after light fittings in the historic council chambers were found to be possible fire threats, resulting in redecoration work.
Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is set to begin operations with tight profit margins, and no guarantee financial predictions promising profits will prove accurate.
Dunedin's rate increase for the 2011-12 year, a 7.7% rise, passed the final hurdle yesterday, when the city council adopted this year's annual plan and set the rates.
"Amazing" times two, and "magical" was the public reaction on Saturday night to the 2011 Dunedin Midwinter Carnival.
About 120 people marched in Dunedin on Saturday in protest against the possible reintroduction of youth rates in New Zealand.
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Dunedin's Ross Creek reservoir is to be lowered an additional 2.7m to lessen the risk of collapse from "low to inconceivable", as the city prepares to make a final decision on the future of the picturesque facility.
A packed public meeting in South Dunedin last night slammed a KiwiRail decision to cut 41 jobs at the Hillside workshops, as a line-up of political, council and business figures vowed to fight the Government and keep skilled jobs in the city.
Taieri farmers took their protest about rate increases - in one farmer's case more than $16,000 a year - to the Otago Regional Council yesterday when 10 large tractors were driven through Dunedin to the council's Stafford St offices.
Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is getting noticed overseas, with one Australian politician, at least, indicating he plans to organise a Dunedin visit to pick up some stadium ideas to take home.
Taieri farmers took their protest about rates increases of up to $30,000 to the Otago Regional Council yesterday, when 10 tractors and a police escort rumbled through Dunedin to the council's Stafford St offices.
Doctor Who is good. It has the Tardis, and Daleks and Cybermen and all that.
The economies of scale, the ability for a variety of sports to share resources, and the proximity to tertiary facilities would make a proposed sports hub at Dunedin's Logan Park unequalled in New Zealand, Sport Otago chief executive John Brimble says.
The Dunedin City Council will host building industry groups in the next two or three weeks to try to deal with the fallout from a report that showed the city's building consent fees were significantly higher than the fees charged by other centres.
The Otago Rugby Football Union has begun negotiations to move its offices to the Forsyth Barr Stadium, as the Dunedin City Council prepares to sell Carisbrook.
A Dunedin City Council bylaw to control "freedom camping" has been voted into existence, but the city will have to wait up to a year before it has any teeth.
Plans for a $14.6 million transformation of Logan Park survived an attempt by two councillors to drop much of the funding from the Dunedin City Council's budget yesterday.
The gloves came off in Dunedin politics yesterday, as some councillors turned on Mayor Dave Cull, accusing him of pandering to one of his Greater Dunedin councillors during a fiery council meeting.
