Council News
Council is encouraging households to be recycling champions over the Christmas and New Year period, when volumes of rubbish and recycling typically increase.
The hundreds of people that signed a petition to save the Tinwald Pool are being encouraged to also make their views known when Council considers the district’s outdoor swimming options during the Long Term Plan process starting soon.
Council’s roading contractors are busy upgrading stop and give way signs at many rural intersections – signs are bigger, there are more of them, and some have white backgrounds designed to make them even more visible.
A new disc golf course at the Tinwald Domain will be officially opened this Sunday, at 3pm.
The finalists have been shortlisted for the ANZ Business of the Year Awards and the all-important judging round will soon get under way, amid much excitement.
Contractors working at the Ng King community heritage park on Allens Road have uncovered foundations of an historic building at the former Chinese market garden settlement.
Methven residents are being asked to keep a stricter eye on their recycling habits after a spa pool, an old mattress and a piano were left at the town’s transfer station.
Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown is looking forward to new three waters reforms, with community involvement, once the new Government repeals the previous reform legislation.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency contractors have begun work on road-narrowing bulges (known as cyclist separators) on Melcombe Street, designed to lower speed and deter “rat runners”.
The Methven Community Board has been asked to support a biodiversity initiative aimed at bringing birdsong back to Methven.