Waimea dam build may overtop $164m top-of-the-range cost forecast
Uncertaintly continues to add costs to already over-budget project
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Water reforms part of 'dramatic shift' to centralised decision-making
The Three Waters reforms are part of a "dramatic shift" from local to centralised decision-making, says Tasman mayor Tim King.
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Nelson Airport and port company plan makes it halfway down the runway
Nelson Airport is a strategic asset owned jointly by Tasman District and Nelson City councils. Tasman District councillors have aligned with the wishes of Nelson Airport representatives and agreed their preferred option is the establishment of a holding company as a funding vehicle only for the airport and Port Nelson. As the airport and port are owned jointly by Tasman District and Nelson City councils, Nelson City councillors must make that same choice in order for Tasman District Council’s preferred option to proceed. City councillors are tipped to consider the matter on Thursday. Duri...
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Apology declined for no-show Tasman District councillor Mark Greening
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 usual – at the start of the meeting. Councillor Dean McNamara moved a resolution to accept the ap...
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What's in a name? If Richmond gets suburbs, what should they be called?
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 Waimea. The choice of Richmond Central is self-explanatory while Hope “formalises the traditional de...
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