Uglies: Black-tie at 715 George

715 George St, corner Regent Rd, Dunedin

█ Clan Construction Commercial Ltd
http://www.companies.govt.nz/co/4013678

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### ODT Online Thu, 10 Dec 2015
Student apartments going up
Construction has begun on six new student apartments at the corner of George St and Regent Rd, Dunedin. The 962sq m triangular-shaped site is owned by Straits International Ltd, and was the site of a service station for about 80 years. The Dunedin City Council has given resource consent for the company to construct four residential units in a two-storey building (block 1) and two residential units in a three-storey building (block 2), thereby creating 22 habitable rooms. Construction is expected to be completed next year.
ODT Link

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Comments at ODT Online:

Student apartments
Submitted by Barnaby on Thu, 10/12/2015 – 6:35pm.

No! This was not a service station site for 80 years. There was a beautiful two-storey substantial brick heritage house on this site until about the 1970s. This is just another step in the incremental loss of North End heritage. This shows very poor planning from DCC, making this part of town, and the main street in this case, an ever expanding precinct of badly designed cheaply built high density housing. These will add to the stock of other similar structures forming “North Dunedin’s slums of the future”. Ratepayers’ will probably end up funding the future purchase of such cheap accomodation to mitigate associated social problems and the appalling visual amenity. Very poor city planning indeed.

Habitable room disasters
Submitted by ej kerr on Fri, 11/12/2015 – 12:43pm.

Prominent George St corner sites are being trashed by the banal. More habitable rooms – No emphasis on good contemporary design, no flair.
This one’s built right to the footpath on the main street, with little modulation and no hint of garden or vertical planting possible, except something to the corner part-screened by the witless bus shelter shoved on its concrete pad.
Given the rich inheritance, where has Dunedin street architecture gone? Where are the design professions? Why so much visual erosion? Where is the NZ Institute of Architects? Why no City Architect Office and independent Urban Design Panel to uphold design values for Dunedin residents and ratepayers?
Ugh! DCC planning fail. DCC urban design fail. DCC district plan fail. When will DCC grow up – to promote sympathetic edgy contemporary architecture and design for major city axials, at the very least. A step up from turning Dunedin into bog city with tawdry gateway approaches.

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

*Image: misted lettered tweaked by whatifdunedin

Dunedin North care less filthy slum

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From: Jeff Dickie
To: Elizabeth Kerr
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 5:45 PM
Subject: Sunday in the slums of North Dunedin

Hi Elizabeth, your comments re the new hotel [“Cull’s Cockup”, the new “Farry’s Folly”] are very good and congratulations on the National Radio coverage.

In the next day or so I’d like to post something on your Whatif site regarding the implications of the DCC neglecting core business and services. We’ve watched as the North End has transformed from an integrated community combining residents and students to an intensely populated and filthy slum. Largely as a result of poor planning by the DCC and University. I took these photos on Sunday, 16 March.

While Dave preens himself in front of the mirror and is distracted by the latest snake oil salesmen, there are some very serious social issues developing.

Regards, Jeff

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George Street

Castle Street

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Mr Gable stressed not all the partygoers exhibited bad behaviour, with others trying to calm the more aggressive young men.

### ODT Online Wed, 19 Mar 2014
Man attacked by St Patrick’s revellers
By Hamish McNeilly
A Dunedin man says he had his shirt ripped, glasses pulled off his face and his car’s wing mirror yanked off after he confronted drunken St Patrick’s Day revellers who were urinating on his property. Walking from work to his Malvern St home, Chris Gable encountered a large crowd of green-clad revellers in the area of the former Woodhaugh Hotel, about 5pm on Monday. […] He later had to leave the property, and while he was away, his neighbour, Jeff Dickie found an estimated 40 people on Mr Gable’s section, including some bouncing on his trampoline and others urinating on his property.
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Figures released under the Official Information Act show the Fire Service recorded 586 nuisance fires in the North Dunedin student area between February 20, 2009, and February 20, 2014. Of those, 179 were recorded last year – compared with 77 in 2009.

### ODT Online Wed, 19 Mar 2014
Student fires dampened
By Hamish McNeilly
Nuisance fires in the student quarter hit a five-year high last year, with Castle St the area’s top hot spot. To dampen fire threats, the Fire Service, police, University of Otago and Dunedin City Council have taken a zero tolerance approach to such fires in the city. Fire Service East Otago area manager Laurence Voight said that approach, coupled with fire prevention activities during Orientation Week appeared to have ”reduced the unwanted behaviour”.
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Meanwhile Vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne, on advice received from the likes of Stuart McLauchlan and John Ward (did we mention Mayor Cull?), ‘decides’ the University of Otago should sponsor, yes, the ‘drinking culture’ that attends a professional but barely coherent and losing rugby team, The Highlanders. Some things are cumulative by fragile branding connection… a marketing marriage borne in heaven: A GREAT EXAMPLE TO ALL. This, a ‘subtle’ buttering device, before the DCC’s Stadium gets offloaded to the University for nothing, and Hail Mary/Harlene! the University doesn’t have to pay rates.

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

DCC: Hospital area parking changes #cyclelanes

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Dunedin City Council – Media Release
Parking Changes for Hospital Area

This item was published on 14 Jan 2014.

Some changes to on-street parking outside Dunedin Hospital are coming soon as part of measures to improve cyclist safety. The changes will occur in the block of Cumberland Street between Hanover and Frederick Streets and should be implemented in late January/early February.

Dunedin City Council Senior Traffic Engineer Ron Minnema says, “The objective of the changes is to reduce the risk to cyclists by reducing the number of conflicts between vehicles manoeuvring into car parks and northbound cyclists.”

The changes will also complement the wider cycle lanes. The changes involve increasing the maximum time period on the 13 pay and display parks from four hours to all day, removing the bus stop, installing no stopping lines immediately south of the entrance to the Hospital car park and construction of two extra mobility parks. That will mean there will be four mobility parks (two more than at present) and 2 P5 parks (one less than at present).

The Southern District Health Board, the NZ Transport Agency, the Automobile Association and the Otago Regional Council have been consulted about the parking changes, Mr Minnema says. The changes, which are part of short-term safety measures to improve cyclist safety in the central city, were discussed by the Council in May 2013.

Once the changes have been made, the DCC will monitor the on-street parks outside the Hospital on Great King, Hanover and Frederick Streets. The results will be discussed with the Health Board to determine whether any further changes are required on these streets.

Earlier in 2013, minor changes to parking took place at 17 sites in the central city. All these parking changes are in response to the Council in November 2012 asking the NZ Transport Agency to identify short-term measures to improve cyclist safety, as well as developing a long-term plan with the same vision.

Part of the long-term plan is a separated cycle lane proposal which involves two preferred long-term options for improving the safety of Dunedin’s one-way sections of State Highway 1. Consultation on this proposal closed on 6 December last year.

Contact Senior Traffic Engineer on 03 474 3706.

DCC Link

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr
 

George Street: Two new uglies (thanks DCC, no City Architect…)

(just DCC resource management planners with no design training, and use of the odd ‘consulting architect’ who lamely fails to press that architectural details be made “right”, lest they upset “the boys”—be they lousy small-time architects (as opposed to REAL DESIGN ARCHITECTS), architectural designers, draftsmen, builders, property developers or investors). Our kindom, for a City Architect —to compile and enforce design guidelines, and through district plan mechanisms, to require the use of registered architects by developers working in important townscape precincts like George Street, and to shove an unforgiving multidisciplinary Urban Design Panel at the buggers.

No. 1 —Apartments, 581 George Street
We’re all familiar with Farry’s Motel, now Farry’s Motel Apartments at 575 George Street. The complex used to look out on a green area, and vehicle parking with mature trees and shrubbery at 581.

DCC Webmap 575-581 George Street

Malcolm Farry recently sold the properties at 575 and 581 to Ethel Limited, a family company led by Frank Cazemier who has worked for Cutlers as a “University Investment Sales Specialist”. A cursory check of directorships at the NZ Companies Office website shows Cazemier is “one of the boys”. Pity he knows next to nothing about contextual commercial residential design, architectural bulk and location, facade modulation, sun angles, or landscape architecture —such that can’t be solved by ready trees.

Farry’s Motel Apartments now looks out on a poorly designed featureless boundary fence, and the sobering double block of apartments ‘next door’ at 581. The block furthest from the street (walls of light blue), when seen from driveways to either side, reveals a ‘long elevation’ running parallel to George Street that resembles a jerry-built, badly-windowed reclad of a tired country hall (the low, horizontally-orientated fenestration allows for another floor of rooms above, in the roofspace).

The marketing statement for Farry’s Motel Apartments at 575 still says:
“Set alongside a large grassed area that provides a playground and picnic spots, we are one of the most centrally located Dunedin motels, offering an absolutely superb main street position.”

This is no longer the case.
The very likely expensive exercise in ‘infill design’ (intensification/ densification…) issued from the drawing board of Bill Henderson, Architect of (fuck-a-daisy)WANAKA —someone who appears to work at the ‘cheap-looking’ end of the market, or at least has diminished design flare, poor knowledge of scale detail and proportion, and lack of expertise in three-dimensional architectural composition. As a result, and while meeting planning criteria for the zone, the motels/apartments at 575 and 581 now look about fit for student stays only, or at a pinch, the G&T parents of capping graduands. No fear, the new apartments will be mouth-wateringly expensive to rent. The student ghetto continues, behind the tacky dress-up to George Street.

Incidently, Farry’s operates a charge back system with the former Farry-owned Cargill’s Hotel, now Quality Hotel Cargills at 686 George Street.

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No. 2 —Apartments, 2 St David Street, cnr George Street
There used to be a nice old single-storey bungalow with fine curving bay windows and a palm tree on this site, next to Quality Hotel Cargills. Only the palm tree remains. The bungalow became victim to an excavator. It isn’t clear if the windows and internal period joinery (if still present) were dismantled for re-use.

The site is now owned by Newmarket Investments Limited and has been recently developed for apartments. The company directors are Clive Hewitson and wife Wendy May Hewitson. Clive Hewitson’s profile at LinkedIn says: “Director – Otago & Southland, New Zealand | Real Estate”. Hewitson is another of the “boys”, as records at the NZ Companies Office show. Some link up in the past with companies of which Frank Cazemier (mentioned above) has also been a director.

The apartment complex is faced, not too convincingly, in ‘red brick’ – at first glance, no-one can tell if it’s real brick facing or veneer! Questionable are the lack of reveals, and the scale and position of openings (doors and windows) in the street elevations; with tweaking to proportions and placements this could have solved. The glazing bars are wrong. Small frosted bathroom and toilet windows to the street (on the public face of your building) are a No-no. The shallowness of the gables to the street elevations, also grates in perspective. The grey wooden pickets added to the base of the original garden fence are odd. The whole is unnecessarily dreary. Taxi drivers hate it. The pencil cypresses may provide a foil, once mature (the building really needs one hell of a lot of ivy). Have to admit, designing anything between Quality Hotel Cargills and Econo Lodge Alcala is a free-for-all, BUT why not try…

No registered architect. It shows. The developer used RJ Oliver Architectural Design, Mosgiel – spot the spelling mistake!

Why didn’t Quality Hotel Cargills buy 2 St David Street to take control of the prominent corner to George Street? We note Dunedin architect Hamish Wixon is a director/shareholder of 678 George Street Limited and Cargills Hotel Limited. Perhaps we can look forward to developments at the tired Cargills…

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Strategic Site: 715 George Street, cnr Regent Road
Can we possibly imagine what will get built on the site of the former BP 2go Regent service station? Another horror story? Another ‘architectual’ (sic) bodice-ripper? 715 is owned by Northfield Property and Investment Company Limited. The sole director is Bryan Howard Usher of Dunedin.

DCC Webmap – 715 George Street (context)

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Post and building images by Elizabeth Kerr

Dunedin Institution: University Book Shop (UBS)

378 Great King Street, Dunedin

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### ODT Online Fri, 13 Sep 2013
Smaller University Bookshop on cards
By Vaughan Elder
After cutting staff numbers, the University Book Shop (UBS) is now considering reducing the size of its Great King St store.
Staff at the book shop were told in June to reapply for their jobs, as bookstore manager Phillippa Duffy looked at ways to reduce costs in the face of falling revenue. The Otago University Students’ Association-owned shop could be in for more change, with options being considered to reduce the shop’s size and split up its Great King St site.

“The iconic building is very much part of the UBS identity and we have no plans to move.”

The shop, especially now a second branch had been opened on campus this year, did not need to take up as much space as it did, Miss Duffy said. She met architects yesterday and options being examined, including what should be done with the space upstairs previously used to sell text-books and whether to keep the “non-stop sale” upstairs or move it downstairs, freeing up space.
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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

*Images: facebook.com – UBS tweaked not lost by whatifdunedin

University of Otago development plans

When previously . . .

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### ODT Online Thu, 30 May 2013
$358m vote of confidence
By Vaughan Elder
The figure the university has earmarked for construction, from last year until 2020, was revealed in the university’s priority development plan, obtained by the Otago Daily Times under the Official Information Act. The plan includes 22 projects, 20 of which are in Dunedin. The university declined to reveal the budgets for individual projects, citing commercial sensitivity, but put the total budget for the work at $357.8 million.

University chief operating officer John Patrick said the projects were included in the plan for a number of reasons, including to accommodate growth, to improve building layout and efficiency and health and safety.

Asked how the university could afford such a large amount of work, given what it had previously described as a “difficult” funding environment, Mr Patrick said: “The University of Otago has a fiscal strategy that is designed to provide funding for capital development.”
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30.5.13 ODT: University updates staff on quake work

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

*Images: (top) physics.otago.ac.nz – University of Otago Registry and Clocktower; otago.ac.nz – Building at University Plaza

What 48 per cent of voters said…

The coalition or confidence and supply partners will be a bit smaller, but the Prime Minister will be determined to seek to work with all three of those parties.

### stuff.co.nz Last updated 12:49 27/11/2011
Key starts government talks
By Tracy Watkins, Kate Chapman, Andrea Vance and Sarah Harvey
National Party deputy leader Bill English and senior Cabinet minister Gerry Brownlee are on their way up to John Key’s Parnell home in Auckland today as talks to put together a government gather steam. English and Brownlee will join Key and senior MP Murray McCully. They will discuss what’s on the table in coalition talks today and over the next few days. National’s campaign manager Steven Joyce this morning said the next government was going to look “quite similar” to the last one, with the Maori Party, ACT and United Future all crucial in the final make-up.
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ODT: Final Result Dunedin North
ODT: Final Result Dunedin South
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2011 General Election Preliminary Results

Preliminary results for the 2011 General Election and advance voting for the Referendum on the Voting System (via Electoral Commission website)

• The preliminary results are based on the 2,014,334 votes counted on election night.
• Special declaration votes still to be counted are estimated at 240,247 (10.7% of total votes). This includes an estimated 19,527 overseas votes.
• The total estimated votes (those counted on election night plus estimated special votes to be counted) is 2,254,581.
• Voter turnout for the 2011 General Election is estimated to be 73.83% of those enrolled as at 5pm Friday 25 November. This compares with a final 79.46% turnout of those enrolled in 2008.

A summary of all party votes, electorate votes and advance votes is available on www.electionresults.govt.nz. The website also shows the probable distribution of seats by party as calculated by the St Lague formula. Preliminary results by polling place for each electorate will also be available on the site.

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

Undie 500 – police reviewing footage

### ODT Online Sat, 19 Sep 2009
More Undie arrests likely
By Debbie Porteous

Police warn they are likely to make more arrests next week after they review footage of the Undie 500 disorder in Dunedin. A team of officers has been assigned to review police video footage, still photographs and other evidence, to identify others involved.
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Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Undie 500 aftermath and distilling…

UPDATED

### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Teen remanded over Undie unrest

The first of the people charged after the weekend’s Undie 500 riots in Dunedin appeared in court today. Tessa Gabrielle Rieger, 19, was remanded until September 29 on a charge of disorderly behaviour in Castle St last Friday night, The Southland Times reported.
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### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Louts will face action: Skegg

The University of Otago will come down hard on students whose “loutish behaviour” at the weekend threatened the university’s reputation, vice-chancellor Prof Sir David Skegg says.
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### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Opinion: Undie riots in wider context
By Allan Brent, student author

With the predictability of spring following winter, the arrival of last weekend’s Undie 500 heralded a slippage into chaos on the streets of North Dunedin.
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Councillors out of their depth…

### ODT Online Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Link loans to behaviour
By Chris Morris

Dunedin’s deputy mayor is calling for student loans to be tied to lawful behaviour following a third year of Undie 500 chaos in North Dunedin.
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Other stories in ODT:
Alcohol law review visit `coincidence’
Centre could play host

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### Newstalk ZB 14/09/2009 12:44:02
Debriefing to follow Undie 500

Student leaders are to meet with the police and Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin this week to discuss the aftermath of the Undie 500. About 80 students are facing criminal charges after their involvement in riots on Friday and Saturday nights. Student representatives from both Otago and Canterbury University will be involved in a debrief of the event, before considerations are made about how to tackle the event in the future. Police are warning they will be making more arrests as they work through identifying those involved.
RNZ Link

What is the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol?

The New Zealand Urban Design Protocol is a voluntary commitment to specific urban design initiatives by signatory organisations, which include central and local government, the property sector, design professionals, professional institutes and other groups.

The Protocol aims to make our towns and cities more successful by using quality urban design to help them become:

* Competitive places that thrive economically and facilitate creativity and innovation
* Liveable places that provide a choice of housing, work and lifestyle options
* A healthy environment that sustains people and nature
* Inclusive places that offer opportunities for all citizens
* Distinctive places that have a strong identity and sense of place
* Well-governed places that have a shared vision and sense of direction

The Protocol identifies seven essential design qualities:

* Context: Seeing that buildings, places and spaces are part of the whole town or city
* Character: Reflecting and enhancing the distinctive character, heritage and identity of our urban environment
* Choice: Ensuring diversity and choice for people
* Connections: Enhancing how different networks link together for people
* Creativity: Encouraging innovative and imaginative solutions
* Custodianship: Ensuring design is environmentally sustainable, safe and healthy
* Collaboration: Communicating and sharing knowledge across sectors, professions and with communities.

Learn more about the Protocol here.

Local signatories to the Protocol include:

Dunedin City Council
University of Otago

Dunedin North and urban design expertise

UPDATING

13 September. A second night of mass disorder, violence and rioting in Castle St. The pleas of city leaders for students to behave responsibly went unheeded.

### ODT Online Sun, 13 Sep 2009
DCC criticised over Undie 500 preparedness
Students say Undie has created own hype
Video: Mob chants ‘Let’s start a riot’
Students and police clash for second night
Castle St cops run out of pepper spray

### 3 News Sun, 13 Sep 2009 5:08p.m.
Students pepper-sprayed in their own homes
Students are hitting back at police actions in Dunedin this weekend. Several claim they will go to the Independent Police Conduct Authority over being pepper-sprayed in their own homes.
Read more + Video

### 3 News Sun, 13 Sep 2009 4:59p.m.
Undie 500 rolls out of Dunedin, leaving carnage behind
3 News tried to get a comment from Otago University, with some serious questions about their students’ behaviour, but they would not front. They said they might put out a statement tomorrow.
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### 3 News Sun, 13 Sep 2009 1:41p.m.
Police Minister: Rioters are ‘rich little white kids’
Police Minister Judith Collions has slammed students involved in a second night of rioting in Dunedin, calling them “rich little white kids”.
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### Newstalk ZB 13/09/2009 8:56:01
No comment from Otago Uni after more mayhem
Otago University has nothing to say about the behaviour of students in Dunedin this weekend.
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### TVNZ News Published: 6:27AM Sunday September 13, 2009
Dunedin in recovery after Undie mayhem
Source: ONE News
Dunedin is on Sunday putting itself back together after a second night of student riots at the Undie 500 rally.
Read more
Video (3:26)

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12 September. On morning radio Mayor Peter Chin said he was “Pissed off” by last night’s Undie 500 fracas in Castle St. He knew it would happen, he said.

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If the city council continues to support/childmind the university as the city’s largest employer (and by god, hasn’t the council just gifted the university its own stadium using ratepayer and taxpayer dollars – the ultimate throwaway exercise in philanthropy) to the detriment of all other community investment in the city for 20 years or more…

and,

if the city council, through a complete lack of foresight and observably deficient city planning to date, allows people to buy up north end housing stocks for student flats [read cash cows – student loans go straight to local and absentee property investors who by a majority, it seems, experience great difficulty reinvesting the loot to upgrade the accommodation to world health standards or better]…

and in so doing, or rather “by not doing”,

the city council with its hands off the rising social, economic, criminal and behavioural problems only succeeds in pushing out older residents, professionals and families in the north end…

then,

the city council thereby has an immediate duty of care to turn around the erosion of community and neighbourhood values…

and yes,

cumulatively, there is a greater metropolitan area of Dunedin – SOUTH and NORTH – in need of NOW VERY BELATED urban design advice and assistance for the short, medium and long term…

This costs, but so does doing nothing at a much much greater cost – as the Mayor might very well swear at today.

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### TVNZ News Updated: 17:37
Published: 4:40PM Saturday September 12, 2009
Undie 500 outlived welcome: Mayor, MP
Source: NZPA/ONE News
The controversial Undie 500 has outlived its welcome in Dunedin and the city’s mayor and Dunedin North MP Pete Hodgson want to put an end to the rally.
Dunedin police were forced to don riot gear and use pepper spray to disperse student mobs during overnight partying after the rally arrived in the city.
About 20 have been arrested after more than 600 people pelted officers with bottles, bricks and bicycle parts in the student stronghold of North Dunedin.
Read more Video

Amateur video: Undie 500 riots in Dunedin (3:12)
Source: ONE News

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### RNZ News Updated at 4:21pm on 12 September 2009
Mayor tells students to trash own city
Dunedin mayor Peter Chin says the rally is not welcome. He says the students should trash their own city if they want to run an event and he hopes those arrested get no sympathy from the courts. He says there’s likely to be more unruly behaviour on Saturday night because of the presence of media.
Calls to can event
Dunedin North MP Pete Hodgson says [the] rally should be scrapped. He says Dunedin is very tolerant when it comes to students but this sort of trouble can’t continue year after year and it’s time to put a stop to it.
RNZ Link

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### ODT Online Sat, 12 Sep 2009
Undie 500 outlived welcome – Chin
Castle St burns, again
Video: Undie 500 descends into chaos

### ODT Online Sat, 12/09/2009 – 6:50pm.
Comment by BammBamm on Assignments
I see two of my students partying it up on the ODT website photographs of the riots last night whom have asked for extensions for internal assessment. It would be a mistake to assume that they will dealt with leniently from now on.

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### 3 News Sat, 12 Sep 2009 5:31p.m.
Dunedin students behind Undie 500 chaos, say organisers
Dunedin students face a police crackdown tonight after disgraceful scenes on the streets of the city. As the area was cleaned up today, residents were hoping tonight would be quieter. “I wish they’d put the fire hoses on them,” says local Lorraine Bruce.
3 News Link + Video

Watch raw, uncut footage of the partying here.