All City Centre residents and city centre supporters welcome
Renting, Owning or something else.
CCRG meetings are the 1st Monday of the month.
If that is a public holiday, then the 2nd Monday of the month.
Welcome/Nau Mai to
OUR NEXT PUBLIC CCRG MEETING
Freyberg Place
Monday 6 July
6pm
Ellen Melville Centre
Come and join us in the comfy ground floor Helen Clark lounge.
Amongst the standard agenda items:
- Attendees and Apologies
- Approval of the Draft 04.08.25 AGM Minutes
- Receive the Chair’s Annual Report – a good summary of what we’ve been advocating for and getting on with.
- Annual Financial Statements to 30 June 2026
- Establish annual subscriptions (current subs)
- Review our current CCRG Policy Positions – what we want for different aspects of life in te pokapū tāone/city centre. – the important statements that drive our feedback to council and other groups that exercise influence or control in the city centre.
- Consider any other business and Motions for the meeting – if you have a motion please email it before 5pm Sunday 5 July 2026.
- Elections for the Committee
Have an area of interest you want to drive for CCRG? – join the committee and help us make it happen. Nominate HERE or at the meeting itself. Once elected, the Committee will elect from amongst its members the Chair, Deputy Chair, Secretary and a Treasurer.
All are welcome to attend the AGM, but to nominate and vote you need to be a Full or Student/Senior CCRG member living within the city centre boundaries, and attending in person.
With 🙏🏻 to the Ellen Melville Centre
Life in the city centre is quite different from that in the suburban parts of the local board that encircle the city centre beyond the motorways.
CCRG’s purpose is well-established, and its positions are voted on at AGMs.
CCRG were set up some 20 years ago to provide council with a residential input on expenditure of the city centre targeted rate.
We, along with other stakeholders in the City Centre Advisory Panel continue to strongly support the city centre masterplan.
Outcome 6 of the CCMP is Residential City Centre Neighbourhoods
For CCRG, that agreed plan continues to provide the single best laid out short to long term strategy for progressing and changing the city into an even better place for its residents, and therefore for everyone else.
It’s always good, if not advisable and required, to have an agreed plan!
Previous Meetings
May 2026:
Chat with the Chairs
how we prioritise the needs of residents within decision-making
Not by the fireside as that is not possible at Ellen Melville.
Instead a kōrero between Waitematā Local Board Chair Alex Bonham, and CCRG Chair Antony Philips.
In the comfortable warmth of the
Helen Clark Lounge
Ellen Melville Centre
This will take the form of questions from CCRG and chat.
And then questions from the floor.
April 2026:
Auckland council conducts long term environmental monitoring across the region, including for air quality. In general, air quality has improved over the last several years but changes have not been uniform. This presentation will give an overview of council’s monitoring activities and recent reports, focusing on the latest air quality monitoring projects in the city centre and what the future might look like.
Our presenter was Gustavo Olivares Pino, air quality scientist managing Auckland Council’s air quality monitoring network. Gustavo comes from Santiago, Chile, where the view of the Andes in winter is often obscured by a layer of smog, which motivated him to work in air quality so that “everybody can see their mountains”. Gustavo has an MsC in Chemical Engineering and more than 25 years of experience in air quality.
Read Gustavo’s Ambient air quality in Auckland – trend analysis 2015 to 2024.
Council also has an environmental data portal with an Air Quality page.
Monday 3 February
With the Auckland Local Alcohol Policy (LAP) – Temporary Freeze ending on 16 September 2026, we brought together about experts from the National Public Health Service, and Communities Against Alcohol Harm to learn about and discuss matters such as alcohol use/abuse, Liquor License restrictions/sales, the current city centre situation good and bad (police stats) – LAP, and it successes/failures,
What’s next for the LAP?
You can also read about the CCRG Approach to Alcohol License application, renewals, and variations in the City Centre,
Come and be part of the discussion.
Bring your own city centre kōrero and pātai/questions, and city centre fandom, and we look forward to seeing you.
Ellen Melville Centre, Freyberg Place.