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Christina Persico05:00, May 01 2021 ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff New Plymouth District Councillors are set to decide whether to introduce water meters. (file photos) Fixing the plumbing is in, building a multi-sport hub is in, but whether New Plymouth homes will be fitted with water meters is too close to call, if long term plan data is anything to go by. The New Plymouth District Council (NPDC) has released the more than 4500 submissions it received on its 2021-2031 long term plan, and with it data on what position respondents held on the seven big areas of spending. The council wants to spend $50...

Jane Matthews05:00, May 01 2021 GLENN JEFFREY/Stuff Taranaki has the lowest level of “housing poverty” in the country. That hasn’t stopped the number of people needing emergency housing doubling in one year. (File photo) At a point when a mother and son had nowhere else to go, New Plymouth's Jo Massey gave up her lounge and shed for months on end, so they had a roof over their heads. Massey offered the pair a place to sleep because she knew them, but she is one of the many doing their bit to alleviate the pain the lack of public, transitional and emergency housing is causing hundreds f...

Christina Persico12:33, Apr 30 2021 Simon O'Connor/Stuff Don Driver's artwork hung in the New Plymouth Airport terminal for 50 years. It’s been out of sight since before lockdown, but a much-loved art work from New Plymouth’s old airport is set to return in a weather-proof version at its old stomping ground. The mural commemorating the 1933 landing of Charles Kingsford Smith's first passenger-carrying flight across the Tasman Sea, at Bell Block, was created by artist Don Driver and hung in New Plymouth Airport's main terminal for 50 years. When the new terminal went up, with art from P...

SIMON O'CONNOR/Stuff Paul Stills and his family will spread his brother Craig's ashes next weekend at sea, at the spot where Craig's boat sank two years ago. The ashes of a keen fisherman killed by a drugged driver in New Plymouth during lockdown will be scattered at sea next week. The memorial will serve as a form of closure for the family of Craig Stills, after they learned there would be no appeal against the nine months of home detention imposed on the driver last month. ANDY JACKSON/STUFF Paul Stills says there's no justice after the home detention sentence given to the drugged driver w...

Neil Holdom. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin Holdom said people were dying on State Highway 3 while the transport agency replaced its original plans with what he called "half-arsed" alternatives, cutting millions of dollars off the budget in the process. Since July 2015 seven people have been killed on State Highway 3 between Waitara and New Plymouth, and 27 have been seriously injured. A toll with an estimated social cost of $43.3 million, according to the New Plymouth District Council's submission to the 2021 Regional Land Transport Plan. Holdom said there was genuine excitement about plans for ...