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Rachael Kelly/Stuff The Gore District Council has installed a 'pocket park' at the end of Eccles Street at the intersection with State Highway 1, which has prompted concerns about ambulances travelling to Gore Hospital, which is further down the street. The Gore District Council has received a petition asking for the removal of some of its Streets Alive initiatives, including more than 460 concrete troughs, from the towns streets. And the results of a survey commissioned by the council about the programme won’t be known until a council meeting on Tuesday. The council has rolled out a thre...

That's the whole idea. The fund allows councils to trial new traffic layouts, before spending big money to make them permanent. Waka Kotahi urban mobility manager Kathryn King said the Innovative Streets programme aimed to make it faster and easier to transition streets to safer and more liveable spaces, using a technique called tactical urbanism, which allowed faster delivery of ‘people-friendly’ street changes in urban areas where space is a premium. “There are over 60 Innovating Streets pilots taking place around the country. They include safe streets around schools, so children c...

Supplied A courtesy crossing will be added to Broughton St as part of the Gore District Council's Streets Alive programme. It will be the biggest change to Gore’s streets since the infamous centre parks were removed from Main St. More than 400 planters, pocket parks and a ‘jellybean roundabout’ will transform the streets of Gore this month as the Gore District Council rolls out it’s ‘Streets Alive’ project. Throughout March a series of initiatives designed to make Gore’s streets safer, more accessible and to promote being more active will appear throughout the town, as part of...

Artists adding a touch of kiwiana to the town included Flox, Kell Sunshine and Ikarus. Street art was gaining in popularity and places like Dunedin had a street art trail, with some murals painted by internationally-acclaimed artists. Bluff’s street art, however, was all created by New Zealand artists, he said. “It’s all 100 per cent kiwi made, which is pretty cool – kiwi murals by Kiwis.’’ The biggest being painted this week was 40 metres long by eight metres wide, he said. Deow was from Southland and had spent time preparing the walls before other artists arrived. “Some...

However, the yellow bin is for glass. The council stopped recycling after June 2020, saying at the time there were no overseas markets for plastic and mixed paper, and to stockpile them above ground was not desirable from an environmental perspective. The council elected not to renew its recycling processing contract with SdE. Standring says in the report the final payment was $23,757. Robyn Edie/Stuff Gore District mayor Tracy Hicks, whose council stopped recycling in mid-2020. The council does offer free green-waste dumping, but Standring’s report says questions have been raised about...