Ngāi Tūāhuriri has welcomed the Council’s proposal to establish ‘Mana Whenua’ as a specified part of its CDEM emergency response and recovery management structures.

It was a full public gallery at yesterday’s Kaiapoi-Tuahiwi Community Board meeting as residents of Sovereign Palms showed up to voice their opposition to proposed public transport changes that would see buses traveling through the subdivision.

Potential parking solutions and reserve designations took the spotlight at the Oxford-Ohoka Community Board meeting last week.

A variety of local organisations will benefit from financial assistance following the Rangiora-Ashley Community Board meeting on Wednesday night.

The Woodend-Sefton Community Board met on Monday night and were delighted to approve a grant of $500 to the Woodend School toward the cost of lighting for its School Production in November this year in the Rangiora Town Hall.

Woodend-Tuahiwi and Pegasus water supplies will soon be much more resilient following work to put infrastructure in place to physically join the two schemes. These physical works commenced following consultation on the project in 2016.

The Waimakariri District Council is asking residents to keep their eyes open and report suspicious behaviour to Police following a recent spate of graffiti and low-level vandalism.

Council is reminding owners of private wells to have their water regularly tested, following a few recent private well tests showing elevated arsenic levels in the north-west of Kaiapoi.  The arsenic is thought to be naturally occurring, though further investigation is intended to be carried out by the Council.