Million Babies Benefit Concert in Eden Park Receives 91% Support

A survey of the Eden Park Trust revealed that 91% of Aucklanders surveyed support the "Million Babies" project, despite the objections of some local residents.

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark, who lives near Eden Park, is one of 127 opponents at the proposed Waitangi Day 2019 concert for Sir Ray Avery's LifePod Incubators for Babies. premature, calling it a "Trojan horse" for more nocturnal gigs at the park.

But the poll, commissioned by Confidence and supplemented by UMR, found that 87 percent of the 350 people surveyed in the surrounding suburbs, and 91 percent of the 650 people across the rest of Auckland, support supporting the holding of the concert in the park.

The Park, New Zealand's largest stadium, with a capacity of 60,000 spectators, has the Auckland Plan's consent for up to 25 night-time sporting events a year.

The plan also provides for up to six night concerts a year, but requires confidence. apply for individual resource consent for each concert. The Million Babies Trusts application, filed on June 6, states that the noise levels during the concert, between 7:00 pm and 10:30 pm on Waitangi's day, could exceed 75 decibels for about 30 houses at a time. West of Sandringham Rd and 80 decibels for another small group of houses near the northwest corner of the park.

On July 12, when the bids were closed, the trust announced that it would offer a noise limit as a condition of resource consent. but he has not yet said what the limit would be.

The Auckland Council said that it had received 360 submissions supporting consent, 127 against and one neutral.

Trust and counsel agreed to send the case directly to the Environmental Court so that it can be decided in October, in time to confirm what confidence has called "a starry distribution comprising a performance by an icon of undisclosed music that has never before played in New Zealand"

350 p The inhabitants of "neighboring suburbs" came from Balmoral, from Eden Terrace, Kingsland, Morningside, Mount Eden and Mount Albert.

There were questions indicating that the trust was keen to hold more than 25 night events "With the support of our neighbors, we are interested in doing more events than our Trust Deed envisions in the future," he said. said the general manager of Eden Park Trust, Nick Sautner

. "There is no doubt that the proposed LifePod Appeal will" have an impact on our neighbors. "

" That's why we met the Eden Park Residents Association, the Eden Park Association Neighbors and representatives of Local Albert-Eden. Since 1965, we have hired a team of experts including environmental planners, traffic specialists, acoustics and lighting to assess the effects of a concert on area, then we filed our r Authorization Request.

The poll was released following reports this week that the Australian Federal Court found in 2015 Sautner had been fired from a previous job at the Melbourne Stadiums Doug McKay, chairman of the Trust's board of directors, said he was aware of the Australian allegations before Sautner was named. General Manager last year, but investigated them, and Sautner received full board support.

The UMR poll found that 75% of those surveyed in the surrounding suburbs would support up to 40 nighttime events, including 15 gigs.

The 25% who answered no to this question They are then asked if they will support 31 nocturnal events, including six concerts (8% support, 17% vs.).

The remaining 17% are asked to support the current limits of 25 night events. with six concerts. Finally, the remaining 12% were invited to support the 25 evenings "whether the survival of Eden Park depends on it" or "if they are retractable". In both cases, those who were still opposed accounted for only 9% of those surveyed in the surrounding suburbs.

Last night, the trust organized a free fish-fishing night for residents of the community. park to provide an update, concert and watch a super-rugby quarter-final broadcast between the Chiefs and the Hurricanes.