October 2018 newsletter

News from around our district

A lot has happened since our last newsletter. Raglan came up trumps at this year’s Keep New Zealand Beautiful Awards, winning the Most Beautiful Small Town Award and overall Supreme Award.

In other Raglan news, we've recently upgraded to the Papahua Reserve carpark and work has started on upgrading the public toilets.

In north Waikato, relief is in sight for users of the Onewhero Domain toilet facilities, and the fence around Te Kauwhata Domain now features a dozen brightly coloured 'dogs', thanks to the town's youth,

Here are the latest updates and important information about resource consents and building consents in the Waikato district.

Update from our teams

The continual growth and development is keeping our teams busy. You can read their latest update here.

Staff profile: Meet David Bastion, our new Team Leader for Land Development Engineering

David has had a diverse engineering career with a strong focus on design. You can read more about David here.

Processing statistics

Click here to see the latest numbers for resource consent and building consent applications, LIM applications and Duty Planner requests.

What's happening: Waikato's strong dairying pedigree brings major players to the district

Earlier this month Ports of Auckland (POAL) announced it had secured Open Country Dairy as its first freight customer. They are the latest in a number of new dairy leaders to announce their move to the Waikato district in the past three years.

Overall Waikato District attracted 183 new businesses and 500 new jobs in the year to March 2018, with business owners rating the district a strong 8.6 out of 10 as a place to do business according to the Council’s latest annual report. Read more here.

New service centre in Taupiri

Resource consent has been granted to establish and operate a service centre in Taupiri, directly off the roundabout at the start of the new road known as the Huntly Section of the Waikato Expressway. Click here to read more.

New bridge and new retail shops in Pokeno

A new retail complex is planned for 39 Great South Road, Pokeno. Meanwhile, work has been progressing on the new link bridge between the Bartel and Hitchens Blocks in Pokeno. The Bridge will form an important link from the northern residential area to the new Hitchen block to the west and the Gateway Industrial estate to the south. You can read more here.

Process focus: Update on the Proposed District Plan

The Proposed Waikato District Plan 2018 (Stage 1) combines both the Franklin and Waikato sections into a single district plan with a consistent approach to development and growth across the district.

Our Policy team are now in the process of summarising the many submission points for Stage 1.Stage 2 of the District Plan Review is also currently in progress. Click here to read more.

Changes to be aware of

Wireless Telecommunications
We now require hard wiring to wireless telecommunications in Residential Zones. Read more here.
New way to request duty planner info
We've created a better way to lodge your requests. Read more.
Changes to the Land Transfer Act
Surveyors and developers should be aware the new Land Transfer Act (LT) commences on the 12 November 2018. Click here for more information.
Christmas shut-down dates
Our statutory close-down period is from 20 December to 10 January (inclusive) for building and resource consents.

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