More Than 1000 People Tell Us What's Important to Horowhenua

Friday, 15 January 2010

A Waitarere Beach local resident has won $200 worth of grocery vouchers by telling Horowhenua District Council what is important to her in our District.

Mariett Merson of Waitarere Beach was the lucky recipient in an early-bird draw that took place on 11 January 2010 after she filled out the Shaping Horowhenua  survey as part of the Council's District Plan Review.

It seems that Horowhenua residents and ratepayers do care about the future of the District with more than 1100 people having already filled in and posted their survey forms.

Shaping Horowhenua - Our Place, Our Future is the name of the project which will bring the existing District Plan adopted in 1999 into the 21st century.

It will set the ground rules for how the community want to see the District shaped over the next ten years.

People are being given an opportunity to shape the future of the Horowhenua through the two-year project by telling the Council what is important to them in Horowhenua..

The Council sent out more than 13000 surveys to ratepayers and invited all residents and ratepayers to have their say.

We want people to tell their story - what is important about where they live, what things they would like to see the Council address, what things they would like to see in the District, , and how these could be achieved.

District Plan Review manager David McCorkindale says to date more than 1100 people have filled out a survey and he is optimistic of a getting a 10 percent return rate by the end of the month.

Survey forms are available from Council offices, service centres libraries and from the Council notice boards throughout the District.  The final day for survey's to be completed and returned is 12 February 2010 by 5pm.