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Objection

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Mark Sims

Changing Tamaki Panmure region to east manukau does not reflect similar communities or histories, the changing area of Mt Wellington and Panmure, Tamaki is not aligned to manukau

Objection

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Tonia Still

Mount Wellington next to the Tamaki Estuary has always been part of Auckland City Council and rates reflect that. To change the boundary Negatively impacts on residents who currently benefit from Auckland Hospital care which is superior to that offered by Middlemore let alone being more accessible. The new boundaries do not make sense from any logical point of view

Objection

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Natasha Macpherson

Panmure has no connection to become part of the Manukau East zone. This is unfair and undemocratic.

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Objection

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Dr Oliver Mudford

Panmure, along with Glen Innes, and Point England are to be removed from Maungakiekie electorate and put into Manukau East. I object.
These three suburbs were always part of Auckland, which Maungakiekie is, but Manukau East was not. We (Panmure) and others are on the eastern boundary of M'kie as it runs through the middle of Tamaki estuary/river. It seems silly to eliminate a natural boundary, like a river. We are not South Auckland.
We have access to Greenlane Clinical Cenre and Auckland City Hospital that those of us who have had to use hospital services will be very sorry to lose. However people less than a kilometre from me and still in Panmure will be able to continue with hospital services that they are familiar with AND access by frequent public transport (buses) running from Panmure to Auckland, but not Middlemore.

Objection

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Claire Ashley

1. Panmure has no history or community of interest with the Manukau East electorate.
2. Bad for democracy. Voters in Panmure and Glen Innes will feel disconnected and alienated from the larger Manukau East electoral area and will probably see all future election campaigns centred on South Auckland issues debated by South Auckland-based politicians. This is likely to undermine and discourage participation in democracy in our areas.
3. The boundary change appears entirely arbitrary and follows no logical historic or administrative pattern. Historically, Panmure has always sat within the former Auckland City Council and Mount Wellington Borough Council adminstrative areas. From 1848, Panmure became central to the political administration of this area through such bodies as the Panmure/Mount Wellington Highway Districts, the Borough of Mount Wellington and even the short-lived Tamaki City Council. This proposed change ignores all of that history.
4. The change would separate Panmure politically not only from its own railway station but also a significant part of its community in the Mountain Road area, along with businesses to the west of the railway line and Jellicoe Road.
5. All surrounding electorates - Tamaki, Epsom, Maungakiekie, Mangere, Manurewa, Botany and Pakuranga - are allowed to maintain their identity and sense of cohesion under the changes, but Panmure, along with Glen Innes, Point England, and parts of Mount Wellington and Otahuhu, will be forced to lose theirs.
6. The Tamaki Regeneration process foresees a significant population increase in Panmure, Glen Innes and Point England coming decades. This is likely to force a reversal of this proposal by the Electoral Commission in years to come.
7. Panmure is Auckland City and not Manukau and should not be in an electorate named Manukau East.
8. I do not want Panmure to ever come under Counties Manukau DHB / Middlemore.
Panmure being Auckland City is Auckland DHB therefore Auckland Hospital and must stay this way.
9. There has been next to zero publicity for this change for the residents of Panmure. Nothing in the local paper. No flyer drop, no addressed mail. The local elected Councillors have remained silent on it and despite being asked to hold a public meeting, failed to do so. A majority of Panmure residents would be unaware of this planned change. It is being done with minimal publicity with a close off right before Christmas to ensure there is limited opposition.

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