A bigger and better BID for Onehunga?

Aug 10, 2023 Latest News 2 min

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Onehunga Business Association is proposing to expand the town’s business improvement district (BID), as they can see the great potential the town has to offer. According to Amanda Wellgreen, town manager at the business association, there are 450 businesses in the current BID boundary, and they are aiming to include about 650 more, to ...

Housing boom hits Onehunga

Aug 10, 2023 Latest News 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes Onehunga is soon going to be home to over 700 new homes as a development boom has hit the town. Kāinga Ora is building 400 of these homes, Ockham is developing 210 homes in Jordan Avenue, and the Onehunga Mall Club is building an apartment block that will house 102 one and two-bedroom apartments. Resource consent ...

Chemicals still found at closed water treatment plant

Aug 10, 2023 Latest News 2 min

Reading Time: 2 minutes Watercare is carefully monitoring raw water at the closed Onehunga Water Treatment Plant, as low levels of a toxic chemical are still being detected. The local plant in Spring Street was temporarily shut down in October last year after the plant did not meet the new drinking water standards set out by the World Health ...

Milestone reached for new sewerage tunnel

Aug 10, 2023 Latest News 2 min

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Central Interceptor, a 14.7km sewerage tunnel being dug under Auckland, has passed a significant local milestone. The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) is now close to 7km into its journey, having crossed under the Manukau Harbour and 110 metres below Hillsborough. The boring machine, Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, has already passed beyond the Onehunga area. The interceptor is ...