Bill McKay ~ talking about the Gordon Wilson Flats (RNZ)

On the 23rd of June (2025) Bill McKay, urban issues correspondent for RNZ, discussed “the government’s decision to introduce a bill to demolish Wellington’s Gordon Wilson Flats.” Bill suggests it is a ‘new low’ that the government worked on an RMA amendment to demolish this single building.

the greenest building is the one that is already standing ~ Bill McKay

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018992534/urban-issues-the-case-for-keeping-the-gordon-wilson-flats

Elsewhere Christine McCarthy has questioned what it is about this building that illicits such irrational ire:

This week we hear the government may be changing the earthquake regulations that may render this building less ‘prone’. Thank goodness VUW still has the opportunity to return the building to functional housing.