Posts Tagged ‘Working Party’
June 27, 2011
The Laman Street Working Party had a workshop yesterday. Some extremely positive things came out of it. Don’t you wish you’d been there? (more…)
Tags:arborists, art gallery, condemned exit, exclusion zones, fire exit, insurance, Judy Jaeger, Laman St, lopping, LSWP, pruning, risk, Working Party, workshop
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June 24, 2011
There has been a resignation from the Laman Street Working Party: the landscape architectural consultant, Mr Walbank. (more…)
Tags:LSWP, NCC, Newcastle, resignation, risk mitigation, risks, sandstone, Town Hall, University House, Working Party
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June 24, 2011
Well, I’m almost speechless. Last night (22.6.11) was an emergency meeting of the Laman Street Working Party. Since it’s all about the vibe, I’ll just say that the vibe was mostly pretty irritating.
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Tags:charade, charrette, insurance, laman street, Laman Street working party, Land and Environment Court, LSWP, Mike Ellison, NCC, Newcastle City Council, QTRA, risk, spin, Statewide insurance, Working Party
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June 21, 2011
There’s an earlier-than-expected Laman Street Working Party (LSWP) meeting tomorrow at 5:30pm in the Mulubinba Room in the City Hall. It’s open to the public. There could be some deck chairs to rearrange - you should come. (more…)
Tags:Albania, arborists, Brisbane, ENSPEC, fig trees, ISA, Laman St, LSWP, root pruning, Tirana, Tyrrell St, wildlife, Working Party
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June 4, 2011
Here are the new painted Laman Street fences. (more…)
Tags:aerial roots, art competition, brand Newcastle, Buenos Aires, Cr Cook, Cr Osborne, fences, gates, general manager, laman street, Laman Street working party, Lillian Fowler reserve, Lord Mayor, Mattheck, NCC, propaganda, public art, Pull Test, racism, Ryde Council, Saving our trees, Working Party
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April 20, 2011
The fences will have to be rented for a bit longer in Laman Street because Councillors decided tonight it’s premature to remove them…
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Tags:deja vu, Detroit, Detroit Central Station, ENSPEC, fences, green roofs, Kooragang, laman street, Lord Mayor, Lord Mayoral Minute, Mark Twain, NCC, Portland, Working Party
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April 14, 2011
I went to a wedding in Sydney last weekend and enjoyed, in no particular order, a spectacular view of the harbour, lovely company, the optimism that always goes with these occasions, gorgeous readings – and fig trees as far as the eye could see. But not a fence in sight. (more…)
Tags:barricades, fences, fig trees, flying foxes, Indiana, laman street, Lord Mayor, mulching, NCC, Newcastle City Council, Newcastle Voice, pollinators, Rose Bay, Shortland Esplanade, street trees, The Herald, Working Party
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March 18, 2011
TGIF. This week has been full of Stuff like children’s homework and deciding whether to apply for positions on Laman Street working parties (decided not to) and new staff at work and sad Japanese disasters – since I seem to be so inefficient about the time it takes to write blog posts there hasn’t been enough time to write one. (more…)
Tags:Austria, Chernobyl, crepe myrtles, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fukushima, Japan, laman street, NCC, Newcastle City Council, nuclear power, Oregon, Portland, public art, Sydney Morning Herald, Three Mile Island, Working Party
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