Hurunui District Council

17/05/2012 High Level of Satisfaction with Council Continues

Hurunui District Council’s annual survey of 500 residents and ratepayers has again confirmed a high level of overall satisfaction with the Council’s performance.

27/04/2012 Council revokes decision to seek report regarding access to proposed Hurunui Wind Farm

At the 29 March council meeting, two members of the public made deputations regarding their concerns about the proposed route for vehicles if the Meridian Energy Hurunui Wind Farm project goes ahead.

The council considered these deputations at their 12 April strategy and policy meeting, and resolved that they were concerned about the traffic safety issues of using the Motunau Beach Road option for access to the proposed Hurunui Wind Farm and asked for a report on access via the Reeces Road route identified by Meridian Energy.

The CEO was asked to engage a traffic engineer and planner to undertake the works. However, a number of councilors had second thoughts about the matter and a notice of motion to revoke the resolution was subsequently signed by five councilors. This was debated at an extraordinary strategy and policy meeting on 26 April before being passed, six votes for and one against

27/04/2012 Council elects to keep status quo

The Local Electoral Act requires all local authorities to review their representation arrangements at least once every six years. The Hurunui District Council is currently undertaking this process and the representation arrangements decided on during this process will be used for the 2013 local body elections.

The Hurunui District Council believes that its current ward structure, with one Mayor and nine councilor positions, provide fitting representation for the diversity of communities within the district. As such, it has adopted the ‘status quo’ for its proposed district representation arrangements

23/04/2012 National recognition for Hurunui Youth Programme

The Hurunui District Council has won the highly commended award in the youth leadership category at the biennial Youth in Local Government Awards.

13/04/2012 Land use changes in the Hurunui district

The Hurunui Environmental Reporting Document (HERD) was adopted in 2007 to monitor the state of the environment and the efficiency and effectiveness of the Hurunui District Plan. This monitoring is currently in progress as part of the District Plan review. A report outlining the results of the monitoring of changes in land use over the last ten years have now was provided to the Hurunui District Council at their Strategy and Policy meeting on 12 April

03/04/2012 Health hub consultation to start

30/03/2012 Mayor defends Council's actions

Local Hurunui wind farm opponent, John Carr, has written to the Environment Court making wide-sweeping and very serious allegations about the Council and its staff. 

Mayor Dalley says statements by Mr Carr that the Council’s executive are working in tandem with Meridian Energy and that its experts and staff are compromised are wrong.

27/03/2012 Livestock movement – a timely reminder

When an automobile collides with a herd of cattle the results can be serious, even deadly for the vehicle’s occupants. Recently there was a collision of this type in the backroads of the district – far from medical assistance. Luckily the driver’s injuries, whilst severe, were not life-threatening, but it is a timely reminder to those who move livestock in the district that there are stringent rules in regards to this activity.

31/01/2011 Projected rates rise below local government rate of inflation

The Hurunui District Council’s projecting a rates rise for 2011 of less than the rate of local government inflation.