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A $60,000 grant from Tasman District Council will help the Warmer Healthier Homes Te Tau Ihu Charitable Trust insulate the last known qualifying homes in the district.

Martin De Ruyter/Stuff Mayor Tim King says while the reason for receiving the funding was clearly explained, it appeared to be unclear how it was utilised. Councillors appeared surprised this month when they were told the size of the Moutere account balance during a discussion about the proposed Māpua boat ramp. The RFCs were discussed again on Thursday at an extraordinary council meeting that was called to consider a notice of motion on funding sources for a Motueka pool project. During de...

The Tasman District Council is being urged to speed up measures to help the region cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

Martin De Ruyter/The-Nelson-Mail Landfill fees are set to increase by 20 per cent, but the majority of submissions from both Nelson and Tasman are in favour of the change Submitters looking into the nitty gritty of the region’s 10-year landfill and sewerage plans generally supported the proposals. Both the Nelson Tasman Regional Landfill Business Unit (landfill unit) and the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit (sewerage unit), combined Nelson City and Tasman District Council business unit...

MOHUA AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST/SUPPLIED The Mohua Affordable Housing Project aims to provide affordable homes for people who are finding it increasingly difficult to get somewhere to live in Golden Bay. A community-led proposal to build two additional pensioner flats on Tasman District Council land in the Golden Bay town of Tākaka has received strong support from district councillors. “If this works well, I believe its a model that we can roll out in other parts of the district,” said cou...

MARTIN DE RUYTER/STUFF Mark Greening is one of four elected members in the Richmond Ward. Council records show he attended 23 of 53 council and committee meetings between November 2019 and last Thursday. An apology offered by absent councillor Mark Greening was declined at a committee meeting, an act Greening calls a storm in a teacup and a divisive political stunt. Tasman District Council strategy and policy committee chairman, councillor Kit Maling, last Thursday invited apologies – as is ...

Suggested names “to provoke conversation” about a proposal to divide Richmond into four suburbs. The Tasman District town of Richmond is getting so big it may be time to partition it into suburbs but how many and what should they be called? Tasman District Council environment and planning manager Dennis Bush-King has put forward names for four suburbs “to provoke the conversation if councillors wish to go down this path”. Those suggestions are Richmond Central, Hope, Templemore and Wai...

On Friday, the NRSBU agreed to spread out the costs by deferring $5m worth of capital projects from the first five years of its 10-year programme, to the last five years. This would mean a reduction in capital project costs (excluding renewals) in 2021-2022 from $5.45m to $4.8m, and over the course of three years from $17.5m to $13.9m. Associated with the reduced capital costs, there was also expected to be some operating cost savings as a result of the deferral. At the meeting, NRSBU activ...

Drinking water supplies to rural areas may come with increased costs under a possible new law. Concerns have been raised over the cost and effectiveness of treating drinking water supplies in some rural areas under potential changes signalled in the Water Services Bill. Tasman District Council has outlined those concerns in a submission on the bill, which passed its first reading in December and is now before Parliament’s health select committee. “We believe some of the concerns that we ...

Virginia Woolf/Stuff The level of nitrate in the waters under parts of the Waimea Plains has long been of concern. Agricultural and livestock land uses are the primary sources of nitrate contamination in the waters on and under the Waimea Plains, a new report has found. A summary of existing science from catchment management consultant Andrew Fenemor for the Tasman District Council said monthly groundwater data suggested that historic contamination from a piggery that closed in the 1980s has �...