Council News
The Ashburton CBD streetscape upgrade work is progressing with 80% of the project now complete. Here are the latest updates...
Ashburton District Council Mayor Neil Brown and Chief Executive Hamish Riach discuss the Government’s Three Waters reform, which could see the district’s drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater networks come under a South Island entity.
Ashburton District Council’s new library and civic centre has begun rising above its site boundary walls.
Work on a major intersection upgrade in Ashburton begins this week. The aim is to make it safer for school students, people who bike or walk and all road users to get around the growing town.
Heads up: Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency will close the State Highway 1 Ashburton River bridge for night works from 9 pm Sunday 15 August to 5 am Monday 16 August.
Ashburton District Council is consulting about the future of Grove Street Park in Tinwald as developers seek access to a proposed residential subdivision, where a new and much larger park with modern playground equipment would be built.
The Ashburton Youth Council’s mountain film festival has raised $2100 and the money will be used to help run its annual Bite Nite Culture Fest on Saturday 25 September.
Ashburton Glow in the Park will feature a trail of light installations that starts at the centre of the Ashburton Domain and loops through the long lawn and past the pond, in a three-night show to celebrate EA Networks’ 100 years of connecting Mid Canterbury.
It’s great to see the interest being generated by Ashburton Glow in the Park, an event that will well and truly light up the Ashburton Domain later this month (27 to 29 August).
Special rain gardens in Ashburton’s new CBD have been environmentally designed to soak up and filter stormwater.