Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Horowhenua Mayor Brendan Duffy is very supportive of the outcomes of Monday's meeting on the condition of Lake Horowhenua. Speaking from Auckland where he is attending the Local Government Annual Conference Mayor Duffy acknowledged the many members of our community who attended the meeting to show their strong support for this strategic local...
Friday, 23 July 2010
Horowhenua District Council has regrouped a number of its community support functions that ‘help the community to help itself’ with the formation of a new Community Wellbeing Subcommittee. At its meeting on 7 July 2010, Council dissolved the Joint Transport & Health Subcommittee and combined it with the Horowhenua Public Health Organisation...
Friday, 23 July 2010
Horowhenua has a higher proportion of golden oldies per capita than most other regions around New Zealand and Council recently adopted a Positive Ageing Strategy to ensure we meet the changing and growing needs of our older community members. Horowhenua District Council is one of just a handful of local authorities to have developed a strategy o...
Friday, 23 July 2010
Horowhenua District Council is supporting builders to encourage them to meet new regulations under the Building Act by March 2012. After this date they will need a practitioner license for most kinds of building work under the Licensed Building Practitioners (LBP) Scheme. “We are the first in the country to help local builders meet the new...
Friday, 09 July 2010
If you want to have a say in the future of your region find out more about how you can stand to become a community board member, councillor or mayor? The Horowhenua District Council is holding two workshops for prospective candidates in this year’s local government elections on Thursday 22 July 2010. The first of these will be at 5.30 pm in the...
Thursday, 08 July 2010
The enrolment drive for the local elections should have reached local residents by now, and all those who didn’t get an enrolment update pack are not enrolled to vote for the local council and district health board elections. “If you haven’t received one of these packs you’re not enrolled – and you need to fill out an enrolment form now,” says F...
Monday, 28 June 2010
Members of the Environmental Planning fraternity and Horowhenua District Council staff met this week to discuss matters of common interest. This is one of a series of regular meetings and newsletters intended to build relations between Council staff and the key customers they work with. The intention now is to hold a meeting or distribute a...
Friday, 25 June 2010
Horowhenua’s economy has bounced back from the recession and outperformed the national economy against most indicators, according to the latest Infometrics quarterly report commissioned by Horowhenua District Council. Prospects in the construction industry are improving. The number of residential consents in the year to March 2010 increased to 9...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Move over Johnny Depp and Peter Pan, there was a whole new batch of pirates hatched at the Big Pirate Splash at the Levin Aquatic Centre on Saturday night. Over two hundred eye-patched children rollicked in the Levin pools under the supervision of staff and without their parents for two fun-packed hours. Christine Belsham, pools manager, says...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
At its meeting on 23 June 2010 Council adopted its 2010/2011 Annual Plan – incorporating capital projects, operational work projects and revenue streams, including rates. The document was adopted after a lengthy process which commenced with a series of public meetings in late April in Foxton, Shannon and Levin. This year Council received 128...