probably require your urgent attention. The Council is working directly with consent holders and sector groups to ensure efficient and effective compliance. On a broader horizon, regional councils are now also required to ‘consider and recognise’ Te Mana o te Wai in freshwater management, and to identify and reflect tangata whenua values and interests in the management of freshwater and in decision-making around freshwater planning. This gives fresh impetus to ongoing Iwi-Council discussions in
Transit, the free real-time bus app is now available from the App Store and Google Play. All Taranaki buses are now fitted with new GPS devices, which feed real-time bus arrival times through to the Transit app. Transit The Transit app allows you to journey plan in real-time. It's available on all Taranaki Regional Council operated bus services; Citylink, The Connector, Your Connector and Southlink. Buses are fitted with GPS devices which feed real-time bus arrival times through to the app.
The Main Field has been upgraded with improved drainage and the installation of hybrid ‘GrassMaster’ turf and the old lights have been placed with energy efficient LED lights. Preparation work ahead of installing the more resilient hybrid ‘GrassMaster’ Turf. Work on the Main Field was carried out during the West Stand repair project. . Will Bowden from New Zealand Turf Management Solutions brought his expertise as a grass guru to work alongside FieldTurfNZ to make the Main Field pitch perfect.
Work is resuming on the repair and refurbishment of Yarrow Stadium, as a $20 million ‘shovel-ready’ funding injection for the project is formally accepted by the Taranaki Regional Council on behalf of the community. “We’re very pleased and most grateful to accept this grant, and arrangements are well under way for accessing the funds,” says the Council Chair, David MacLeod. “In the meantime, work is getting under way again, and the first priority will be repairing the West Stand.” The West
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District Council and Canterbury Regional Council assessing a
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number of complex air discharge consent applications, a number of
which went to hearing where I attended as an air quality expert on
behalf of Council.
2.4 I have conducted air quality monitoring and/or assessments of effects at a
number of chicken farms including:
(a) the replacement consent of the DB Chicks broiler farm on behalf of
the applicants;
(b) the proposed Zealand Farms Levin
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Figure 21. Summary of broad scale habitat, Whenuakura Estuary . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Figure 22. Summary of broad scale habitat, Waitotora Estuary . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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Robertson Environmental Limited has been engaged by Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) to un-
dertake the vulnerability assessment of twenty estuaries in the Taranaki Region in relation to
dollars to eliminate or heavily curtail the environmental impacts of wastewater discharges. A report by Business and Economic Research Ltd found that region-wide, the Taranaki community invested $117 million in environmental improvements in the six years to 2014. A large portion of this was devoted to waterways, with $279.7 million being spent on capital and annual operating costs in the same period. And the quest for improvements continues. The Council is requiring dairy farmers to switch to