Press Release – Hastings District Council Hastings District councillors receive an update on progress at the Frimley water storage and treatment facility. Behind them the dome of the reservoir is being constructed. The construction of Hastings District Councils water storage and treatment facility …
Hastings District councillors receive an update on progress at the Frimley water storage and treatment facility. Behind them the dome of the reservoir is being constructed.
The construction of Hastings District Council’s water storage and treatment facility in Frimley is about 60 per cent complete.
Councillors visited the site on Friday to see progress on the eight million litre reservoir that is a key part of the facility.
Friday, 16 April 2021, 1:31 pm
Much-needed affordable housing for the Queenstown Lakes
District is on the way, after the Queenstown Lakes District
Council (QLDC) approved the transfer of land in Arrowtown to
the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) for
$1.
The approval was signed late last month and is a
key step in allowing the land, on Jopp Street, to be
developed into a mixture of affordable rentals. This will
include an allocation for elderly housing and Secure Home
properties.
QLDC Chief Executive Mike Theelen said the
move was a “milestone” in helping bring additional
affordable housing to the district.
“The transfer
Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 1:19 pm
Social
media can be a wonderful tool for bringing people together
in a common cause. It can also be a seedbed and spreader of
mis-information on a community-wide scale. To which category
do the protests against the siting of an Erebus memorial (to
the 257 New Zealanders who died in that tragedy) in a
secluded corner of a Parnell park happen to belong? IMO, it
is clearly the latter, and the reasons for thinking so are
explained below.
It has been alleged:
that
iwi were not properly consulted about the siting, or the
design
that the plans allegedly require the felling
Friday, 9 April 2021, 9:06 am
Hastings District Council has agreed to raise the funds
needed to complete the final stages of the Hastings Drinking
Water Strategy – the construction of treatment facilities
at the Frimley and Eastbourne sites and associated pipe
works.
Providing safe drinking water and increasing
the capacity and resilience of the network remains
Council’s number one priority; as set out in its 2018
Drinking Water Strategy. The major water storage and
treatment facilities at Frimley and Eastbourne (the latter
subject to receiving Resource Consent) are the last major
components of the strategy.
At a meeting yesterday
[April 8], Hastings District councillors unanimously agreed
Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 4:36 pm
Hastings District Council will decide on a lead
contractor and budget for the district’s two largest and
most critical drinking water infrastructure projects this
week – the new Eastbourne and Frimley treatment
facilities.
Providing safe drinking water and
increasing the capacity and resilience of the network remain
Council’s number one priority; as set out in its 2018
Drinking Water Strategy. The Eastbourne and Frimley water
storage and treatment facilities are the last major
components of the strategy.
The tender being
considered this week is for the building of water treatment
facilities over the two sites (subject to the Eastbourne