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Tukituki Catchment Proposal –Board of Inquiry Hearing Day 11
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 5:36 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Witnesses called: • Ingleton Farms Owner - Lindsay Smith • Cheal Consultants Senior Planner - Ella Bacher More >>
Urban Development Plan Change Adopted
Friday, 29 November 2013, 4:04 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council this week approved Plan Change 4 - Managing the Built Environment. More >>
Urban Development Plan Change Adopted
Friday, 29 November 2013, 4:02 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council this week approved Plan Change 4 - Managing the Built Environment. More >>
Tukituki Catchment Proposal –Board of Inquiry Hearing
Friday, 29 November 2013, 3:10 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Stephen Daysh continued giving evidence this morning, with further questions from Counsel for Royal Forest & Bird Society on Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme conditions. More >>
Vision For Better Biodiversity
Friday, 29 November 2013, 2:09 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The first biodiversity strategy for Hawke’s Bay came a step closer this week when the Biodiversity Strategy Steering Group agreed on a vision and objectives. More >>
Tukituki Catchment Proposal –Board of Inquiry Hearing
Thursday, 28 November 2013, 5:06 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Day 8 focussed on planning and conditions relating to Tukituki Plan Change 6 and Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme. More >>
Tukituki Catchment Proposal – Board of Inquiry Hearing Day 7
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 5:29 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Mr Lister undertook the landscape assessment for the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme. He showed the board a 3D model he had developed at their request which depicts water level fluctuation in the reservoir. More >>
Tukituki Catchment Proposal –Board of Inquiry Hearing
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 8:12 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Day 6 focussed on the potential adverse effects of the RWSS on aquatic ecology and habitat, birds, bats and bugs, as well as the conceptual TRIM model developed to predict nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in streams under the proposed RWSS. More >>
Big Season of Planting by Hawke’s Bay Community
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 12:05 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay has benefitted from another big season of planting this year thanks to landowners, community groups, schools, individuals and Council staff all doing their bit. Around 26,000 native plants and 12,000 exotics were added to country parks ... More >>
Tukituki Catchment Proposal Hearing - Day 5
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 9:25 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Today’s hearing focused on the effect the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme could have on the ecological environment, including birds, bugs and native trees and shrubs and the integrated offset and mitigation programme. More >>
Tukituki Catchment Proposal – Board of Inquiry Hearing Day 4
Friday, 22 November 2013, 3:56 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
HBRC Senior Land Management Advisor – Ian Milner; Senior freshwater scientist at the Cawthron Institute – Dr John Hayes; HBRC Senior Scientist - Coastal Quality - Anna Madarasz-Smith; Senior Scientist Cawthron Institute - Dr Chris Cornelisen; ... More >>
Positive report on Pests with a hint of peanut butter
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 11:27 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s Environment and Services Committee today received a sound annual report on Biosecurity Operations with a view to adding feral cats, stoats and ferrets to the current control of possums, in a trial area. More >>
Regional Parks for a Healthy Hawke’s Bay
Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 11:34 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
In a move which sees Hawke’s Bay Regional Council line up with Greater Wellington and Auckland Councils, Councillors have today endorsed the recommendation to recognise HBRC’s popular ‘open spaces’ as Regional Parks. More >>
Tukituki Catchment Proposal
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 6:20 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Day two continued with scene-setting evidence from HBRC & HBRIC Ltd witnesses and cross examination, mainly by counsel for Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated. Near the end of the day the focus turned to water quality. More >>
Substantial fine for irrigating without a resource consent
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 11:05 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
A local crop grower, Dharminder Singh, received a fine of $15,000 in the Hastings District Court yesterday for irrigating a crop without being in possession of a resource consent to do so. The irrigation occurred on 18 January this year while parts of ... More >>
HBRC appoints leaders to its committees
Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 5:03 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has appointed councillors to chair its committees. At today’s council meeting it confirmed its committees for the next three years and those who will lead the various committees. More >>
Regional Council Sworn In, Chairman Elected
Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 11:05 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Cr Fenton Wilson has been re-elected as Chairman of Hawke's Bay Regional Council and sworn in. More >>
Rate Assessment Copies Available from Regional Council
Monday, 21 October 2013, 11:47 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council ratepayers receiving water-damaged rates assessments in the post this week can contact HBRC for a fresh copy if they need one. More >>
the state of our environment | September 2013
Monday, 7 October 2013, 4:43 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
It’s been a promising start to spring with plenty of moisture in the ground and in our waterways as we strike what are typically our drier months of the year. September last year kicked off an entire spring, summer and autumn of low rainfall so it’s ... More >>
You’ve LEAFed it too late
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 3:26 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s Local Environment Action Fund, known as LEAF, is helping local groups to tackle environmental projects and, due to its popularity, the funding pool which opened in July is empty. More >>
