Wellington's Waterfront

Wellingtn has one of the most beautiful settings for a city in the world - I am well traveled and I don't exaggerate. Some of it has been developed with verve and imagination, Chaffers Park being a prime example. But there have been some atrocious blunders, the monstrosity on Queens Wharf. The design isn't bad - in fact it is quite imaginative - but it is all out of proportion with the other buildings around it. It detracts from the gem which sits beside it. Now the current council want to vary the District Plan to allow a wall of high rise buildings to go up along the road edge between it and the railway station. Instead of a site that could be developed to be a priceless, defining feature of the city all they see is dollars that will be spent on less valuable things long before those buildings have met their use by date. How terribly shortsighted.