{"id":578271,"date":"2026-08-23T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578271\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:40:09","slug":"wellington-scoop-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578271\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington.Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/building-14-storeys.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/building-14-storeys-430x176.png\" alt=\"building 14 storeys\" width=\"430\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-182377\"   \/><\/a> A side view, of how the new Lido apartment building would look from Blair Street<\/p>\n<p>by Felicity Wong<br \/>Politicians are ready to change the rules, by regulation, to help a private development at 260 Wakefield Street, (the old Commonsense Organics site).  Mayor Little and Deputy Mayor McNulty wrote to (Cities Tsar) Chris Bishop a month or so ago, asking him to change the height limits inside the Courtenay Place Heritage Area (CPHA).   David Loveridge\u2019s Watson Group\u2019s high-density \u201cLido\u201d project of 117 apartments could then proceed, without its effects on nearby heritage being considered. <a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/?p=182369#more-182369\" class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A side view, of how the new Lido apartment building would look from Blair Street by Felicity WongPoliticians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-578271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}