REMINDER: Monday 19 June ! It's clean up Courtenay place time!
From WCC
Courtenay Place is going to be getting some well-deserved TLC!
We've teamed up with local businesses and community groups to give the heart of our entertainment district a deep clean. Together with staff, businesses and volunteers we will be:
Scrubbing shopfronts and awnings
Removing graffiti
Cleaning up the footpaths
Tidying up the garden beds
Installing artwork
Schedule
Over one day and working with businesses, Wellington City Council (WCC) is coordinating a community clean-up for Courtenay Place. With a concentrated effort we want to make a visible improvement in the short term and have identified a range of ways to freshen up Courtenay Place.
On the day, we’ll see a range of cleaning and graffiti removal happening at hotspots. Businesses will also be out freshening up their spaces. Following this day, empty shops will be activated with artwork, and rubbish bin repairs made over the next month.
WCC’s cleaning and graffiti contractors will be leading the public space mahi, but we’d love to invite volunteers to join us! DCM will be leading waiata first thing, followed by two community litter clean up shifts, and then a post clean up coffee at Te Pokapū Hapori.
Times:
9.00am: DCM waiata in Courtenay Plaza next to Lucky Chicken – all welcome
9.15am briefing: Volunteer briefing for shift one.
We will supply all equipment needed. If you’d like to join for a part of the shift and will miss the briefing, please still check in at the stand near Lucky Chicken so that you can have a Health and Safety briefing and collect equipment
9.30am-10.30am: SHIFT ONE
Volunteer litter clean-up &; warm soapy water scrubbing – East-North (Courtenay Place, Blair St, Allen St)
Please return equipment to stand near Lucky Chicken
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10.45am briefing: Volunteer briefing for shift two.
We will supply all equipment needed. If you’d like to join for a part of the shift and will miss the briefing, please still check in at the stand near Lucky Chicken so that you can have a Health and Safety briefing and collect equipment.
11.00am-12.00pm: SHIFT TWO
Litter clean-up & warm soapy water scrubbing – West & South (Tory St, Courtenay Place, Te Aro Park). Please return equipment to stand at Lucky Chicken.
12.00pm-12.45pm: Post clean up coffee
at Te Pokapū Hapori, (105 Manners St) – please come join us!. All welcome
If you have any questions, please contact pōneke.promise@wcc.govt.nz or Clara Breitenmoser on
021 392 436.
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Background
The Courtenay Place Clean Up is part of the wider work under the Pōneke Promise, working towards a safe, vibrant and welcoming central city.
Some work is already underway, but the big clean-up will be taking place on Monday 19 June.
For more information, head to Our Wellington
