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Speaker 1: Right now though. It's nineteen past five and I've got

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Speaker 1: a great idea for Wellington. Didn't come from me. Came

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Speaker 1: from business owners in Courtney Place. They're proposing a New

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Speaker 1: Year's Street festival to help lift the area's image. So

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Speaker 1: what they pitched is the idea of shutting down the

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Speaker 1: street for an outdoor party with food and drink and entertainment.

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Speaker 1: And now all they need is a green light from

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Speaker 1: the council. Courtney Place business owner Greg Wilson is part

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Speaker 1: of the group pitching this idea and he's with me. Now, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Greg and I are you going to get the screen light?

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Speaker 2: We are working on the screen light, Heather. Yeah. We

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Speaker 2: had a bit of a positive meeting us today, were

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Speaker 2: the servants of the City Council trying to get this

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Speaker 2: across the line. We're a little bit tight on time

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Speaker 2: frames because it's got to go to the Regulatory Committee

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Speaker 2: for approval, but we're putting a bit of pressure on

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Speaker 2: them and hoping that we can get this across the line.

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Speaker 1: Can't be that hard. I mean, this has been done

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Speaker 1: a few times before, hasn't it.

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Speaker 2: That's the third thing, right, I mean, this is not

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Speaker 2: up in you. We'll post us right enough before to traffic.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's a model that's worked really well

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Speaker 2: on the past with the sevens parties and the the

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Speaker 2: Rings Premia. Last time it was about thirteen years ago,

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Speaker 2: was it not more recently?

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Speaker 1: Didn't we do it for the Rugby World Cup?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Couple of lines tour perhaps.

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Speaker 1: Lines plus Anyway, your council, Your council loves to shut

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Speaker 1: down streets to cars, so they'll be into this.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they've good at rear take down here, they're very

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Speaker 2: good at red tape, and we're just trying to we're

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Speaker 2: battling away through that. You've got thirty five business owners

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Speaker 2: that have all come together because forty places it's it's

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Speaker 2: having a bit of a tough time at the moment.

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Speaker 2: All the businesses are down. There are thirty forty down

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Speaker 2: a revenue that's a huge bit of revenue. And so

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Speaker 2: we're trying to bring new vibrancy back to the area.

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Speaker 2: And how can the council say no when you've got

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Speaker 2: thirty five business owners, most of all the butt our owners,

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Speaker 2: all the restaurant owners all on board with this project.

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Speaker 2: You know, to close this fick down, put three stages

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Speaker 2: down the street, we want to have outdoor parades and circus, performances, performances,

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Speaker 2: live music. It's going to be awesome.

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Speaker 1: Use it sounds cool. Hey Greek. By the way, haven't

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Speaker 1: you got welly on a plate on at the moment

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Speaker 1: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, have I really got actually great, great book work.

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Speaker 2: So it's getting people out, people out into the bars

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Speaker 2: and restaurants that really need the revenue right now. And

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Speaker 2: we're actually spoiled for boys and we had it's going

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Speaker 2: to be burgers for tea for me every night this week.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have another one at one of my pubs,

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Speaker 2: either pub on Dixon Street. But they found really good

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Speaker 2: and we're just spoiled for hospitality here as well. We

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Speaker 2: really are, and we want to celebrate it when you

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Speaker 2: need the council to celebrate it. And that's what we

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Speaker 2: arend we're having put some pressure on the council.

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Speaker 1: Cross good stuff, mate, Good good that you guys are

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Speaker 1: grabbing this ball by its horns. Good on you. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: you get that green light. This Greg Wilson, member of

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Speaker 1: the Courtney Place Precinct Group and owner of businesses.

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