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Objection

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Grahame Powell

The name Helensville is inappropriate.
1. It does not adequately describe the area of the electorate.
2. People in the north of the electorate do not wish to be known as Helensville as it does not describe well or include the rapidly growing areas of Warkworth + Wellsford. Warkworth is projected to have a future population of 25,000 very soon.
3. We do not want a name in the Maori language.

Counter-Objection

Relates to objections

N04-020

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Sel Miller

This counter-objection is in support of N04-020.

I certainly do not want Rodney to change its name to Helensville!
How ridiculous!

Objection

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Doreen Seagar

I live in Titirangi, a bush and Waitakere Ranges region. We have vastly different needs for representation than urban Kelston. I know this as I have lived in Kelston also. It's not just about numbers of population when drawing electoral boundaries, it's also about our environmental needs and connection to the land that needs considering.

Objection

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Jeanette Anderson

New Lynn is a very localised area of Central/West Auckland, the new proposed electorate will stretch over a vast proportion of the Waitakere Ranges and a much wider are than that of anything remotely New Lynn. A better application of a name will reduce voter confusion

Counter-Objection

Relates to objections

N11-003

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Linda Cooper

To the Panel Members - I offer my submission in support of the proposed New Lynn electorate. Please accept My bullet points below.
Proposed configuration much closer to former Waitakere electorate with which people identified very strongly.
The Waitakere City Council New Lynn ward was part of the West. Also West Coast beaches and Waitakere Ranges residents identify with West Auckland not Helensville/Rodney area.
When Helensville boundary changed 6 years ago the West Auckland people south of Muriwai where aghast at being part of Helensville and not being Waitakere. I think they will welcome this change and restoration of community of interest.
I know for rural NZ the long distances to towns are a normal situation but in Auckland being more highly populated we are used to services and connections being closer. In this case for an Auckland electorate to have Helensville in the north of the current electorate a hour and a half drive from Whatipu in the south is quite anomalous in a large metropolitan city. (73km distance) This change would be more logical as New Lynn town is much closer and roads naturally lead there.
The Waitakere Ranges area has to sit within either Helensville (north), New Lynn (south-east) or Te Atatu / Kelson (east). Thankfully, Te Atatu and Kelston are not proposed to have boundary changes, hence any argument which would see these urban electorates expanded westwards into the ranges seem unlikely. So it's probably a battle between Helensville and New Lynn as to where the Waitakeres go...
As a semi-rural zone, the current part of New Lynn electorate which fringes the north side of the Manukau Harbour, as well as Titirangi, could be considered an expanded rural-west Auckland community.
The small seaside coastal communities around the Waitakeres share some similar characteristics and life-style aspects as New Lynn's current rural areas.
The people who live in Waitakere tend to commute to both Henderson and New Lynn for local shopping and community purposes. I therefore emphasie the commute to New Lynn as the nearest major shopping and community hub.
Scenic Drive is one of the key arterial routes which links directly from all the way from Swanson to Piha Rd (to Piha, Anawhata, Karekare) and through Titirangi into New Lynn, and then wider Auckland. There aren't really any key pieces of infrastructure which link into the Helensville electorate.
The Waitakeres are culturally "Westie", and hence should sit within a West Auckland electorate. Helensville on the other hand is very much a rural and semi-rural north/north west Auckland electorate.
Communities in and around Waiwera and further north towards Warkworth and Wellsford have very little in common with people living in the Waitakeres, and nor do they share key infrastructure.
Those in the Waitakeres share a DHB, Licensing Trusts (Portage and Waitakere), and Local Boards and Council representatives. This is not shared by the vast majority of the existing Helensville electorate.

Comments from a Piha local resident (west coast Auckland currently in Helensville electorate) -
We are on Rural Delivery
Our real address is [redacted] Beach Valley Rd, RD 2, New Lynn, Auckland 0772.
Also New Lynn is where many of us shop along with Glen Eden. Have no connection with Helensville. It's way up north west. Even Bethells and Muriwai would connect with Westgate and Henderson rather than go north. We head east and south to shop, doctors, hospital, police, shopping mall, movies etc.

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