Council News
Open Spaces staff are planning the removal of a mature Golden Elm from the Ashburton Domain, after its trunk split during high winds and efforts to save it failed.
If you’re planning a big weekend in the garden, then you’ll be able to take all your green waste to the Ashburton Resource Recovery Park, which is open every day over Labour weekend and the public holiday.
How good it was to see the many photos and smiling faces that resulted from our recent citizenship ceremony, the first in-person citizenship event able to be held for more than a year.
Community feedback has helped shape the final Ashburton Airport Development Plan, which was adopted by Council recently.
Council has taken the banded dotterel, Pohowera, under its wing in this year’s Bird of the Year competition and is encouraging Ashburton district residents to vote for it.
It’s almost time to Drop, Cover and Hold as part of our national earthquake drill, the New Zealand ShakeOut 2022.
Ashburton District has welcomed at least 200 new citizens in the past two years and about 100 of them were at the Ashburton Event Centre last week to celebrate their new citizenship status.
Neil Brown has been re-elected as the Ashburton District Mayor by a large majority in the Local Elections.
Council has applied for resource consent to relocate the Boer War memorial from Baring Square East to Baring Square West, where it will sit with Ashburton’s other war memorials.
I’m proud to be leading the Ashburton District once again and looking forward to building a great team with the new and returning Councillors.