Stop the sale of Queen Elizabeth Square in downtown Auckland

If Queen Elizabeth Square is sold to Precinct Properties, it will become a private retail development, fronting Lower Queen Street to a height of 19 metres.

The effect of this is illustrated in these before and after images*. The loss of public open space opportunity that exists today, and which was obtained in exchange for the close of Little Queen Street and Lower Sturdee Street in the 1970's, would be lost forever.

* the bulk and location graphics may be approximate but they are reasonably accurate. The proposed building would align with Zurich Tower - as shown - and front to the red paved edge of QE Square. The proposed building stops at the amenity yard outside the HSBC building which is setback from the Zurich building.