Nelson City Council will be running two public drop-in sessions in Stoke and Tahunanui, to capture the thoughts of locals on Parking and Public Transport.
Drop-in sessions will be at the Pūtangitangi Greenmeadows Centre – Karearea Room. Thursday 28 October 3pm – 6pm and at the Tahunanui School Hall – Friday 29 October 2021. 3:30pm – 6:30pm.
For more information go to the Shape Nelson website.
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| Spring has gone |
By now gardeners in Tasman and Nelson you should have some Tomato plants growing and Labour Weekend is usually a good time to plant them out.
Other things to plant or sow seeds are sweet corn, beans, cucumbers, pumpkins and eggplants.
All the brassica seedlings can go in now: broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale etc.
You can start kumara shoots in water.
Lay straw around strawberry plants and weed the garlic and I put straw around these as well as they don’t like weeds.
Don’t forget to put some seeds in of basil and plant other herbs.
Feed your lemon trees and a bit of lime twice a year they will love for it.
Put your bulbs in: Lillies and Dalias.
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| Tasman Mayor Tim King |
The Tasman District Council has been invited to submit further proposals for three projects to the next stage of the Government’s Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (IAF) process.
Managed by Kāinga Ora, the IAF is a contestable fund of at least $1 billion nationally, to allocate funding for key infrastructure to enable housing development within 5 years.
The three Tasman projects to get through the first round represent 621 homes in Tākaka (100), Motueka (200) and Wakefield (321).
Being invited to the next stage validates the successful partnership shared with developers and the Council, said Tasman Mayor Tim King.
“The IAF is the funding catalyst enabling us to bring forward a number of developments to benefit the areas within our District hardest hit by the housing situation."
"While we were unsuccessful with applications for other projects in the District, we are pleased to get through to the next phase for these three projects."
"This process is far from over though with the next stage investigating all infrastructure demands, the comparative investment by landowners, links to transport and engagement with iwi."
“We have until 16 December to furnish the extra information and make the Council decisions to bring forward planned investment to leverage the IAF funding. This decision may require a degree of consultation.”
While this process is designed to accelerate development to ease pressure on housing demand the current RMA and Building Act still have a bearing on the outcome of each of the specific developments. In addition, success in the next stage does not affect potential development contribution fees or charges.
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| Nelson City |
Nelson City Council and Wakatū Incorporation have been jointly accepted into the first European Union’s International Urban and Regional Cooperation programme (IURC) partnership with New Zealand.
Nelson City Council and Wakatū Incorporation’s joint application is one of three from New Zealand to be accepted into the programme, which has paired the city with Lemvig, Denmark.
The IURC aims to lead and develop a form of decentralised, international, urban and regional cooperation in the fields of sustainable urban development and innovation.
Nelson City Council and Wakatū Incorporation have been collaborating with Lemvig, which is home to the Climatorium, Denmark’s international climate centre, to explore the opportunity for a virtual or physical southern hemisphere Climatorium in Nelson.
The Climatorium is a collaborative forum where public companies, private companies, research/education as well as the public, meet and work together on climate-related challenges. The goal is to inspire and find new opportunities arising if climate challenge is dealt with in a collaborative way.
For the next two-and-a-half years, all the cities will be learning from one another and sharing best practices on topics such as ecological transition and urban renewal to tackle climate change.
Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese said "she was pleased to be able to further develop the city’s connections with Lemvig and to learn from other participating cities."
“Nelson and Lemvig have been engaged in region-to-region exchanges over the past five years and we are keen to continue our collaboration and knowledge transfer with the support of the IURC international programme.”
Wakatū Incorporation CEO Kerensa Johnston said “We are delighted to have the opportunity to continue to build on our existing relationship with Lemvig. Our communities have much to learn from each other. Participation in the International Urban and Regional Cooperation programme means we can continue to work together on innovative solutions to the issues like climate change for the benefit of future generations.”
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Chris Bishop National's Covid Response spokesperson
The Government has had week-by-week breakdowns of how many Covid vaccinations for Māori and Pasifika people each district health board said would deliver but has sat on the information for months, says National’s Covid Response spokesperson Chris Bishop.
“Today, in the interests of transparency, I am releasing the ‘Equity Production Plans’ for Covid vaccinations for each DHB from 11 July 2021-3 October 2021.
“The existence of these plans has only come to light because of an answer to a Parliamentary written question to me and then an Official Information Act request of the Ministry of Health.
“The Government insists on publishing the ‘rate Māori or Pacific People per population are being vaccinated compared with non-Māori non-Pacific’, rather than the raw numbers each DHB said to the Ministry they would achieve each week.
“It is clear this is an attempt to mask the Government’s incompetence at the vaccine rollout to Māori. The number of fully vaccinated eligible Māori is just 44.6 per cent, compared to a national rate of 65.9%.
“In February, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti wrote to Health Minister Andrew Little asking for financial support for Māori health providers in order to help them play an important role in the vaccine rollout.
“Now, here we are in October 2021, and Māori Labour Ministers blame Māori themselves for not being vaccinated, the Te Aroha Kanarahi Trust in Tairawhiti is fundraising for a mobile vaccination van, and the Waipareira Trust is taking the Ministry of Health to court in order to try and access vaccination data so they can go and find people and get them vaccinated.
“National says again: fund Whānau Ora and Māori health providers properly. Ensure they have access to data from DHBs and primary health organisations. Work with iwi and whānau. No more korero – let’s see some action.”
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NATIONAL
The National Party presented an alternative Covid -19 economic plan today with a number of press releases.
The main thrust of the plan is to have tax cuts for small businesses, $100 hospitality vouchers for fully vaccinated adults and a boost to the wage subsidy.
National wants the government to end lockdown restrictions when 85 to 90 per cent of the eligible population are vaccinated or by December the 1st
Judith Collins presented the National Party policy document from the Foxglove bar on Wednesday morning saying “we must move beyond lockdowns and alert levels” that “support is needed for small businesses that are suffering” as she believes they won’t survive.
Judith Collins said “that any region with 70 per cent vaccination status should be able to move down to Level one immediately”.
We “in the South Island with no Covid -19 cases and none for over a year should be moved to level 1 immediately” it was stated at the press conference. “The South Islanders are owed an explanation,”and “why have they been ignored” it was also said, “If one person gets Covid-19 in Dunedin don’t close down the South Island or Dunedin” the “South Islanders have diligently followed the Government Covid-19 rules but have had no relief.”
During the press conference question time one national MP stated that “ the South has been unloved and places like Nelson and Tasman need tourism back.”
OPINION
There is a lot more to in this Alternative Covid -19 Plan by National but as an opposition party it has no bearing on the Governments Policies but it offers suggestions to the Government.
When Judith Colins said “we are all adults” unfortunately we are human beings some people will get vaccinated, others won’t. No one has checked that all people in rest homes are vaccinated when they are not, so whether the country can open up by the 1st of December is a question unanswered.
For the South Island though we keep clicking into shops and wearing masks with everyone feeling uncomfortable, life is not normal, we can’t dance either, it feels as though we have been forgotten.
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| Behind the Agenda. Golden Bay Community Board |
Well Golden Bay you have got what you wanted! But, you still have some work to do.
Background:
Tasman Council did run an informal community engagement together with Nelson City Council, and a joint community survey was undertaken concerning Sunday trading. Golden Bay was the only area that supported Sunday trading by 65%. The Golden Bay Board requested from Council that it have the ability to consider an Easter Trading policy specifically for Golden Bay.
Full Council approved this request but had to retain the final approval by full Council and in August the Board indicated it would prefer to consult on a policy that allowed shop owners in Golden Bay to choose whether to trade on Easter Sunday. It was seen as important for visitors that go to Golden Bay over the Easter to have more choice.
Board Meeting 12 October:
The Golden Bay Board considered the Draft Easter Sunday Trading Policy For Golden Bay on 12th October 2021 and approved the Draft Policy for the Golden Bay Ward to enable shops to trade on Easter Sunday and approved a public notice for public consultation between 29th October and 5th December 2021. After this consultation the Board will deliberate on the submissions and make recommendations to the Full Council for a final decision.
The Board will publicise the proposed policy through local media and make copies available on the Council website, Council service centres and libraries for the period of the consultation. So it is up to you in the Bay to put your submissions into the Board.
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