housing affordability and housing development. The report also includes information on business land
and floor space.
Summary of findings:
We are expected to be a medium-high population growth district.
Residential Indicator Group 1: In general all the indicators in this group have increased with the
exception of the housing affordability measure. This leads us to believe that while the cost of
building or buying your first home has increased, it is less than the rate of
myrtle species.
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Recount June 2017 Page 3
Historic occasion
heralds new future
Regional rates will remain virtually
unchanged under the 2017/2018 Annual
Plan adopted by the Taranaki Regional
Council.
“It’s pleasing that we will remain one of the
lowest-rating Councils in New Zealand,”
says the Council Chairman, David
MacLeod. “Our focus remains firmly on
ensuring our programmes and operations
are efficient and effective and of value to
the community,
for servicing the liability, with the aim of
avoiding the use of rate income.”
The story now: The inherited debt was largely
paid off by 1997, when the Council received
its first cash dividend from the port. Dividends
have since offset rates requirements, and the
Council also operates a dividend equalisation
fund, in which any dividends surplus to budget
are kept for when dividends are below budget.
Port Taranaki Ltd, meanwhile, reported its
highest-ever
Managing diffuse-source discharges to land and water in Taranaki - Taranaki Regional Council
Taking and use of surface
water for the purposes of
meeting domestic and
stock-watering needs
1 The rate of abstraction shall not exceed 1.5l/s;
The volume of abstraction shall not exceed 50m3 in any one day;
No more than 25% of the instantaneous flow, measured at the
point of abstraction shall be taken.
Permitted
Taking and use of surface
water for agricultural and
horticultural activities
which are not otherwise
provided for in Rule 1
Note: This rule prevails
categorised, 2 were rated ‘poor’, 1 was rated
‘improvement required’, 2 were rated ‘good’ and 14 ‘high’. During the year under review
there were eight incidents associated with the Whareroa site (five incidents linked with milk
spills requiring disposal of product via the marine outfall, two incidents involving
stormwater pond non-compliances and one incident requiring the disposal of milk permeate
to land). One Infringement Notice was issued during the 2012-2013 period relating to non-
compliant
rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s
approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data) in accordance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by
the consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating
as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving
environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative
performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating consent
compliance in site
performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance
by the Company, this report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and
administrative performance during the period under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the
receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year.
Administrative performance is concerned with the Contact Energy’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance
effluent from the Stratford Wastewater Treatment Plant
into the Patea River.
A 20 year timeframe provides the required certainty to
enable the upgrades to be investigated and undertaken
over time.
The proposed plant upgrades are aimed at improving the
effluent quality while remaining cost effective for the
rate payers. There is no requirement for upgrading the
plant capacity.
The timeframe of the upgrade stages are based on
economic considerations. The upgrades proposed are:
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