New Plymouth-based Clelands Construction has won the contract to repair the West Stand at Yarrow Stadium, with work beginning almost immediately. Clelands anticipates deploying 10 staff and 20 subcontractors on this first stage of the wider Yarrow Stadium repair and refurbishment project. It is also expanding its apprenticeship programme with two newcomers. This is a great outcome for the region, says David MacLeod, Chair of Stadium owner Taranaki Regional Council. The project is one of the
Education category winners in the 2020 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards.
It’s working – Taranaki community’s predator control is expanding at a rapid pace, removing rats, possums and stoats, disrupting the threats facing native wildlife and plants. Taranaki Regional Council Chair David MacLeod says he’s excited by the community’s commitment and progress a year since the region-wide project Towards Predator-Free Taranaki was announced on 30 May 2019. Rural andurban residents, iwi, community organisations and schools are uniting to remove rats, stoats and possums from
The Resource Management Act is the statutory cornerstone of much of the Council's work. Analyses of regional sector RMA compliance, monitoring and enforcement These reports are commissioned by the local government regional to measure regional and unitary councils' performance in compliance, monitoring and enforcement, associated with their roles under the Resource Management Act. Compliance, monitoring and enforcement metrics 2020-2021 (2.4 MB pdf) Earlier reports Compliance, monitoring and
Climate studies commissioned by the Council are particularly focused on potential risks and hazards. Central Government co-investment in flood protection This report, published in August 2019 for regional councils and Local Government New Zealand, sets out a case for central government co-investmentment in river management and flood protection schemes. The report is subtitled 'Critical Adaptation to Climate Change for a More Resilient New Zealand'. Central Government Co-investment in River
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OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL – PLAN CHANGE 7 – INTERIM DECISION
IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT
AT CHRISTCHURCH
I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA
KI ŌTAUTAHI
Decision No. [2021] NZEnvC 164
IN THE MATTER of the Resource Management Act 1991
AND of a notice of motion under section
149T(2) to decide proposed Plan
Change 7: Water for Otago (referred to
the Environment Court by the Minister
for the Environment under s 142(2)(b)
of the Act)
BETWEEN OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL
electronic destination board and closed-circuit TV. And its exterior signwriting leaves no one in any doubt about the region it serves. The Connector is operated by Pickering Motors Ltd under contract to the Taranaki Regional Council. "We're delighted Pickerings have invested in a new vehicle for what has proved to be an important addition to the region's public transport network," says the Council's Transport Services Manager, Chris Clarke. "Since the Connector service started in 2014, passenger numbers
Items of interest from today's meeting of the Taranaki Regional Council Policy and Planning Committee: Iwi testing the waters
Council officers are providing a number of iwi and hapū in the region with training and advice to allow them to monitor the health of waterways using a ‘Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit’ (SHMAK) developed by NIWA, the Committee was told. An initial approach for assistance came from the region’s southernmost iwi, Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi, and others have since
catchment and to place these into some context with respect to the issues and values identified
in Taranaki Regional Council documents.
2.2 Known fish distribution
The NZ freshwater fisheries database (NZFFD) was interrogated for fish survey records in the
Waiwhakaiho River catchment and information extracted from it was used to generate maps of known
fish distribution. The data from the database are graphically presented in Appendix 1 and other
relevant information is described in the
The Council responds 24/7 to environmental incidents to investigate, and clean up pollution and take enforcement action if necessary. To report a pollution incident, call the Council's environmental hotline, 0800 736 222 - switchboard is open 24/7. Environmental incidents include spills, accidents and situations where an industry or resource consent holder does not meet consent conditions or regional plan rules. More than half of the incidents that the Council investigates are reported by the