Asbestos at Omaha – Update 3/12/19

A brief update today from John Cranfield, Operational Management & Maintenance Area Manager, Community Facilities in the Customer & Community Services Directorate at Auckland Council We expect the surface clearance up to the tennis courts to be completed late this week / early next. This means the fencing in front of all the residential properties…

Illegal Set-Nets

Please take a moment to read this important (slightly edited) report from our good friend, Chris Martin, who is the General Manager at Insite Security: Last night (Friday, Nov 29th), we kicked off our Patrols of Omaha Beach for this summer and while it was reasonably quiet overall we had 2 separate encounters with illegal…

No Dumping at Archies Park!

Many people at the northern end will know about the lovely little playground and amazing sand dune hill at Archies Park in Excelsior Way – a lot of children and grandchildren have played there! Unfortunately, however, there is a problem with some people dumping tree prunings, weeds, grass clippings, etc on the hill – it’s…

New Roof for Clubhouse!

Great news that the OBC (Chris Allen) and the Omaha Beach Golf Club (Geoff Smith) have successfully negotiated with the Auckland Council for the replacement of the roof on the clubhouse. As the OBGC’s weekly update reports “The Council has agreed to repair and replace the entire roof, gutter and downpipes (at their expense –…

Freedom Camping Update from OBC Committee

Action initiated by the Omaha Beach Community Inc. has resulted in changes to the proposed Freedom Camping in Vehicles Bylaw. The upshot of these proposed changes will mean a continuation of the current protections for Omaha Beach. However, the changes mean that Auckland Council must again undertake a public consultation process. This means that we…

Council Update : Proposed Freedom Camping Bylaw

UPDATE FROM AUCKLAND COUNCIL: Proposed Freedom Camping in Vehicles Bylaw Friday 23 August 2019 Tēnā koe, Following deferral of the Freedom Camping In Vehicles Bylaw in June, our Governing Body received the hearings panel report this week and decided to refer the draft bylaw back to staff for further investigation. You can read more about…