{"id":628531,"date":"2026-10-12T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:26:10","slug":"nzta-says-it-will-order-northcote-election-hoardings-to-come-down-after-permission-not-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628531\/","title":{"rendered":"NZTA says it will order Northcote election hoardings to come down after permission not sought"},"content":{"rendered":"
A fence on the street covered with political hoardings. Photo \/ Richard Hills<\/p>\n
The Auckland Council said the Sylvan Ave site was not council-controlled land and was therefore treated as private property for election-sign purposes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Auckland Council Signs Bylaw does not set a maximum number of election signs that may be displayed on a private fence or private property,\u201d said James Watson, the council\u2019s team leader regional compliance response.<\/p>\n
An NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) spokesperson said the land outside the address was owned by the Crown and administered by the agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsent wasn\u2019t sought to put up these election hoardings, so NZTA will be contacting the parties to advise they need to be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Northcote MP Dan Bidois told the Herald his campaign was not aware of any breach of election-signage rules.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an NZTA site. There\u2019s a proud history of many people using that site,\u201d Bidois said. \u201cWe\u2019re not aware of any breach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Google Maps images of the site show multiple signs on the fence in 2022, when the Auckland mayoral election was held.<\/p>\n
The fence in 2022. Photo \/ Google Images<\/p>\n
Bidois said neither the Auckland Council nor NZTA had contacted his campaign about the signs and that it was willing to adjust the display if concerns were raised.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy volunteers are working hard to get our message out there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bidois said the hoardings were reused and would later be donated to schools and community groups for projects.<\/p>\n
He said the campaign wanted to comply with the rules but dismissed Hills\u2019 criticism, noting the councillor had previously stood as a Labour Party candidate. Hills stood for the party in the Hunua electorate in 2011 and in Northcote in the 2014 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fence on the street covered with political hoardings. Photo \/ Richard Hills The Auckland Council said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3952,5837,4548,8615,6097,6183,5903,50363,49611,125743,702,111,43,139,55139,5006,69,16488,29691,19719,26584,180314,312,13911,61,1533,102],"class_list":["post-628531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-battle","tag-billboard","tag-come","tag-down","tag-dozens","tag-election","tag-fence","tag-hoardings","tag-intensified","tag-it","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northcote","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-nzta","tag-order","tag-ordered","tag-permission","tag-plastered","tag-says","tag-sought","tag-to","tag-will","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628531","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=628531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}