The bill to fix it is well into the tens of millions of dollars, which is huge for a council to have to come up with. The Naenae Pool. The thoroughly excellent Naenae Pool has now been closed since April because of earthquake risk concerns, and the community around it is struggling. There’s also very little emergency housing provision in the Hutt, relative to other parts of the region. That has led to an increase in homelessness. Hutt City has had to manage a lot of the overflow in the astronomical price rises coming out of Wellington, and as a result, housing has become a lot less affordable, both for renters and buyers. There are huge flows of people both into and out of the Hutt every rush hour, so candidates should be expected to have ideas on how to better manage that. Various projects have become election issues, in large part because they had their funding binned by NZTA – in particular, the Melling Interchange (a choke point intersection) and a funding delay for a cycleway around the harbour. Transport: As a crossroads area, people need to get across the Hutt. It is both literally and figuratively something of a crossroads for the whole Wellington region. To the north is Upper Hutt, and to the west is Porirua. Hutt City covers the rapidly gentrifying Petone around the harbour and the wealthy burghers of Eastbourne, stretches up State Highway Two and the Hutt River until about Silverstream, and then East over the hill to the economically hard-hit Wainuiomata, and down from there to the South Coast. For more about becoming a member and supporting The Spinoff’s journalism click here. The Spinoff local election coverage is entirely funded by The Spinoff Members. In our latest local elections 2019 race briefing (read the rest here), Alex Braae breaks down the surprisingly bitter Hutt City mayoral race.
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