Council News
It’s a throwaway comment I hear sometimes, or read on social media: We get nothing for our rates.
As voting papers for the Local Elections have begun arriving in letterboxes, local faces are once again fronting a campaign in the Ashburton district encouraging people to vote.
Two diseased oak trees on Walnut Avenue, one outside Ashburton College, will be removed during the September school holidays.
A monitoring buoy is about to be deployed in Lake Hood next week and several rounds of trials of products to mitigate cyanobacteria blooms are planned in the lake this summer.
Spring into the school holidays at the end of the month, with loads of fun and activities – from searching for treasure to racing remote controlled cars and planting delphiniums in the domain!
Fulton Hogan Ashburton has been awarded a five-year, $40.7 million operations and maintenance contract to look after the roading network in the Ashburton District.
Work has begun this week on a major upgrade of the Dromore community drinking water supply.
Council’s free, community event Glow in the Park was named Local Government Event of the Year at the event industry’s annual awards this week.
It's great this week to see that a preferred contractor has been appointed to design and build the new second bridge over the Ashburton River at Chalmers Avenue.
Seven residents starting new lives in the Ashburton District will share their stories through an outdoor exhibition titled Welcoming Ashburton in the lead-up to the Hakatere Noodle Festival, which celebrates national Welcoming Week.
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