Business News & Policies
Advocacy is a fundamental service provided by the Parnell Business Association to its members and the vast number of policy documents requesting feedback reflects the continued importance of providing a strong, consistent and united voice for local business.
Auckland Council and Auckland Transport often use the business associations (BIDS) as a vehicle to disseminate information. Ideally all businesses should be represented and included. Unfortunately businesses not part of a BID are very often excluded unless they have prioritised channels of policy information, often through contracted services.
While a feedback loop and public consultations are adequately provided for via the Have your Say websites of Auckland Council and Auckland Transport, most businesses find the documentation confusing and very time consuming to respond to.
Parnell, by its very nature an important fringe suburb, will continue to face infrastructure, transport and policy challenges. Representation in the next few years will necessitate creating a balance between the needs of business and the march of progress, and getting to grips with some of the macro issues that impact on our precinct.
BUSINESS PRESS
Policy Submissions
SUBMISSIONS 2026
AUCKLAND COUNCIL ANNUAL PLAN 26/27, Mar 2026
SUBMISSIONS 2025
LETTER RE PARKING AND BUS ROUTES THE STRAND/WAREHOUSE – Aug 2025
AUCKLAND COUNCIL ANNUAL PLAN, Mar 2025
SUBMISSIONS 2024
SUBMISSIONS 2023
SUBMISSION AUCKLAND COUNCIL ANNUAL BUDGET, Mar 2023
SUBMISSION ON THE STRAND OPTIMISATION, Apr 2023
SUBMISSION AT BID TEAM, May 2023
SUBMISSION WAITEMATĀ LOCAL BOARD PLAN, Aug 2023
SUBMISSION STORM RECOVERY & RESILIENCE, Aug 2023
SUBMISSIONS 2022
SUBMISSIONS 2021
SUBMISSION TO THE AUCKLAND COUNCIL LONG TERM BUDGET 2021/2031 AND LOCAL BOARD PRIORITIES, (including St Georges Bay Rd). March 2021
SUBMISSIONS 2020
SUBMISSION ON EAST & WEST STITCH AS PART OF THE CITY CENTRE MASTERPLAN REFRESH, WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO GRAFTON GULLY BOULEVARD, January 2020.
SUBMISSION TO INDEPENDENT PANEL ON THE COUNCIL-CONTROLLED ORGANISATIONS REVIEW. March 2020.
PARNELL SUBMISSION TO AUCKLAND COUNCIL ANNUAL BUDGET, 2020/2021, March 2020.
JOINT BID SUBMISSION TO AUCKLAND COUNCIL ANNUAL BUDGET, 2020/2021, March 2020.
STREETSCAPE UPGRADE ST GEORGES BAY ROAD WAREHOUSES AREA. SUBMISSION ON THE LOCAL BOARD PRIORITIES, March 2020.
SUBMISSION TO ACCESSIBLE STREETS CONSULTATION, (WAKA KOTAHI NZ TRANSPORT AGENCY), May 2020.
PARNELL – BUS STOP RELOCATION [RSU1920-154], 128 Parnell Road, June 2020.
PARNELL SUBMISSION TO AUCKLAND COUNCIL EMERGENCY BUDGET, ANNUAL BUDGET 2020/2021, June 2020.
SUBMISSION ON SUMMERSET VILLAGES (PARNELL) LIMITED, NOTIFIED RESOURCE CONSENT APPLICATION, December 2020.
SUBMISSIONS 2019
PARNELL SUBMISSION TO ‘OUR WATER FUTURE’, April 2019.
JOINT BID SUBMISSION TO ‘OUR WATER FUTURE’, April 2019.
LETTER AYR STREET LOST PARKING, May 2019.
SUBMISSION TO TRADE WASTE BYLAW, June 2019.
SUBMISSION TO PROPOSED WASTE AND MINIMISATION BYLAW, June 2019.
SUBMISSION TO AUCKLAND’S CLIMATE CHANGE FRAMEWORK, August 2019.
THE PARNELL PLAN.
The draft version of The Parnell Plan was developed together with a team from Auckland Council’s ‘people and places’ in a series of workshops together with key stakeholder community groups as well as mana whenua. The Waitematā Local Board sponsored the consultation phase. The PBA actively participated in the workshops and took an active role in engaging as many of our members as possible to participate in the consultation feedback opportunities. This took place via our communication channels, but also group presentations and a tuk-tuk that drove around the district for a two week period, soliciting survey feedback.
Parnell has suffered from a lack of Auckland Council and CCO funding for several years and is the only city fringe precinct that, do date, has not had any kind of Local Area Plan. Thus we are ‘late in the game’ in terms of the urban treatment of competitive business and retail areas and keep on getting left behind other zones, either in the central city or city fringe zone, that are considered a more important priority.
Our submission highlighted the fact that while the consultation document captures the essence of what is needed in order to secure the prosperous future of Parnell, it is crucial that a number of infrastructure projects be funded in order to support the vision.
The final version of the Parnell Plan was launched in June 2019.
SUBMISSIONS 2018
FEEDBACK ON PHASE 2, PARKING CHANGES, THE STRAND, PARNELL,January 2018.
PARNELL SUBMISSION TO AUCKLAND COUNCIL 10 YEARS BUDGET 2018=28, AUCKLAND PLAN AND LOCAL BOARD PRIORITIES, (LONG TERM PLAN),March 2018. JOINT BID SUBMISSION TO AUCKLAND COUNCIL 10 YEARS BUDGET 2018-28, AUCKLAND PLAN AND LOCAL BOARD PRIORITIES (LONG TERM PLAN),March 2018.SUBMISSION – PARNELL ROAD, PROPOSED BUS PRIORITY MEASURES, March 2018.
PARNELL SUBMISSION ON REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORTATION PLAN (RLTP), May 2018. JOINT BID SUBMISSION ON REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORTATION PLAN (RLTP), May 2018. QUAY STREET LANE REDUCTION, December 2018.PARNELL SUBMISSION ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND NUISANCE BYLAW 2013, December 2018.
JOINT BID SUBMISSION ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND NUISANCE BYLAW 2013, December 2018. SUBMISSION ON REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN, December 2018.SUBMISSIONS 2017
PARNELL SUBMISSION TO THE DRAFT ANNUAL BUDGET 2017/18, March 2017.
JOINT BID SUBMISSION TO THE DRAFT ANNUAL BUDGET 2017/18, March 2017.
SUBMISSION TO THE DRAFT WĀITEMATA LOCAL BOARD PLAN 2017, June 2017
SUBMISSION TO THE INTRODUCTION OF PAID PARKING IN PARNELL, ST GEORGES BAY ROAD, August 2017.
SUBMISSION PARKING CHANGES, THE STRAND, PARNELL, September 2017
SUBMISSIONS 2016
PARNELL SUBMISSION AUCKLAND ANNUAL BUDGET 2016/2017, March 2016.
SUBMISSION AUCKLAND DOMAIN MASTERPLAN, March 2016.
SUBMISSION, PARNELL, NEWMARKET, REMUERA CYCLEWAY CONSULTATION, June 2016.
PARNELL SUBMISSION, PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN, August 2016.
AUCKLAND COUNCIL BID POLICY REVIEW, August 2016
SUBMISSION, BUS STOPS THE STRAND, August 2016.
SUBMISSION ON PARNELL GLADSTONE CYCLEWAY AND RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONE, December 2016.
SUBMISSIONS 2015
SUBMISSION ON PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES ACT 2013, February 2015.
PARNELL SUBMISSION, LONG TERM PLAN AUCKLAND COUNCIL, 2015-25, March 2015
SUBMISSION AUCKLAND ALCOHOL BAN REVIEW, April 2015.
SUBMISSION, AUCKLAND TRANSPORT CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT PLAN (CMP), May 2015.
PARNELL SUBMISSION, GLADSTONE CYCLEWAYS, November 2015.
PARNELL SUBMISSION, BUS NETWORK FOR THE CENTRAL SUBURBS, November 2015.
SUBMISSION THE STRAND, SIGNALISED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AND FOOTPATH EXTENSION, November 2015.
SUBMISSIONS 2014
SUBMISSION ON PROPOSED AUCKLAND UNITARY PLAN, February 2014.
SUBMISSION PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO PARNELL RISE, July 2014
JOINT SUBMISSION LOCAL ALCOHOL POLICY, July 2014
JOINT SUBMISSION PARKING DISCUSSION DOCUMENT, July 2014.
SUBMISSION WĀITEMATA LOCAL BOARD PLAN, August 2014
SUBMISSION, PROPOSED NEW SIGNAGE BYLAW, October 2014.
