Hutt City Council - Latest News [Page 12]
Hutt City Council Invests In Knowing Your Pipes Project To Address Water Quality
Friday, 19 March 2021, 12:32 pm | Hutt City Council
Hutt City Council, in collaboration with Wellington Water, is taking steps to proactively reduce the amount of wastewater (sewage) that gets into the environment before it is treated. Funds totalling $250k have been set aside for a private drainage investigation ... More >>
Hutt City Council Welcomes News Resource Consent Granted For The Eastern Bays Shared Path
Friday, 5 March 2021, 5:01 pm | Hutt City Council
Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry has welcomed today’s news that resource consent has been granted for the Eastern Bays Shared Path, saying that it is a major milestone for the significant project and the provision of world class infrastructure for all ... More >>
New Trial Layout For Knights Road Creates Safer Connections
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 12:44 pm | Hutt City Council
Creating safer and more enjoyable journeys along Knights Road for all modes of transport is the goal of a five week trial of a new road layout. This trial aims to test the temporary layout and includes two temporary lanes for cycling, scooting and other ... More >>
Lower Hutt Politicians Join Forces To Fight For The Flyer
Friday, 19 February 2021, 10:30 am | Hutt City Council
Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry, City Councillor Deborah Hislop and MPs Ginny Andersen and Chris Bishop have joined together to lead the Fight for the Flyer Campaign - encouraging people to submit to the Regional Council to ensure the airport bus service ... More >>
Council’s Carbon Footprint Set To Drop A Size
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 3:20 pm | Hutt City Council
Hutt City Council is set to reduce its carbon footprint with the installation of a flare that will cut methane emissions at its Silverstream Landfill. The flare will burn off methane, created by the breakdown of organic waste, before it reaches the ... More >>
Council Kicks Off Development Of Critical Transport Strategy
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 10:58 am | Hutt City Council
Hutt City Council has formally kicked off the development of a new transport strategy to help tackle Lower Hutt’s growing transport challenges. The development of the strategy comes at a key point in Lower Hutt’s history. The city is growing at one ... More >>
Council Adopts Transparent And Robust Financial Approach For Rebuild Of Naenae Pool
Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 7:57 am | Hutt City Council
Council adopts transparent and robust financial approach for rebuild of Naenae Pool Hutt City Council has today released updated information about the rebuild of Naenae Pool, which reflects the cost of rebuilding the closed facility in the current market. ... More >>
Lower Hutt Politicians Call On Regional Council To Fund Airport Flyer Service To The Hutt
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 4:28 pm | Hutt City Council
On December 11, Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry, MP for Hutt South Ginny Andersen, list MP based in Hutt South Chris Bishop, and Cr Deborah Hislop met with Wellington Airport and Tranzit to discuss the future of the Airport Flyer service and its presence More >>
Hutt City Council Approves Community Plan To Reinvigorate Naenae’s Town Centre
Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 5:04 pm | Hutt City Council
Today Hutt City Council has given the green light to the Naenae Town Centre Spatial Plan. This is a significant step forward in the rejuvenation of Naenae and will complement the construction of the new Naenae Pool which is planned to start in the second half ... More >>
Hutt City Council Seeks Early Feedback On Priorities For Ten Year Plan (2021-2031)
Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 1:16 pm | Hutt City Council
Hutt City Council is currently working on its ten year plan and budgets for Lower Hutt. That’s why today Council is launching its early engagement survey to ask residents what they think Council’s priorities should be for the next decade. Lower ... More >>
New Era For Council Rubbish And Recycling Service
Friday, 13 November 2020, 9:20 am | Hutt City Council
Today Hutt City Council announced that contracts are now in place for a modern, lower carbon kerbside rubbish and recycling service that will be rolled out to all Lower Hutt residents in July 2021. An eight-month public tender process has concluded ... More >>
The Dowse Reopens Nuku Tewhatewha - Aotearoa’s Last Known Ngā Pou O Te Kīngitanga
Friday, 30 October 2020, 7:46 am | Hutt City Council
Following an extensive refurbishment, The Dowse Art Museum reopens Nuku Tewhatewha - the only known intact pātaka of seven or eight built as symbols of support for the Kīngitanga (Māori King) Movement - to the public on 30 October 2020. Situated ... More >>
New Lower Hutt Development Has First-home Buyers Excited
Thursday, 29 October 2020, 4:42 pm | Hutt City Council
Hutt City Council-owned property company Urban Plus Limited’s (UPL) new development - ‘Central Park on Copeland’ is nearing completion and new parents and first-home buyers Yang Gan and Julia Chu couldn’t be more excited. "With house prices ... More >>
For The Love Of Food Cultivation And Consumption In Aotearoa
Friday, 23 October 2020, 4:32 pm | Hutt City Council
Living māra kūmara (kūmara garden) grown inside wardian cases; films sharing local stories on community cultivation; and dinnerware ceramics from The Dowse Collection-a new exhibition at The Dowse Art Museum opening 24 October 2020 looks to the interdependent ... More >>
Community And Council Collaborate On Design For Naenae Town Centre
Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 5:25 pm | Hutt City Council
The process to rebuild Naenae Pool and re-design the town centre has reached its next milestone, as Hutt City Council launches a special engagement event at Naenae Village Market on Saturday 24 October. This event kicks off the co-design phase of ... More >>
Free Bike Share Scheme ‘Free Ride’ Launches In Naenae
Friday, 16 October 2020, 3:56 pm | Hutt City Council
Free Ride, a new bike sharing scheme, is launching in Naenae on 30 October 2020. The launch will include a Bike Rodeo, music, food and the opportunity to try out the Free Ride bikes. The first ten brightly branded Free Ride bikes will then be ... More >>
Scale Of Investment Revealed For City’s Three Waters Infrastructure Over The Next Decade
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 8:14 am | Hutt City Council
This week Hutt City Council will consider the level of investment needed for water infrastructure, as part of work to develop the Long Term Plan, which sets out Council’s plans for the ten years ahead. At its Long Term Plan subcommittee meeting on Thursday, ... More >>
Lower Hutt’s Rubbish And Recycling Services To Get Big Upgrade
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 6:14 am | Hutt City Council
This evening Hutt City Council met and agreed to upgrade the city’s kerbside rubbish and recycling services - the biggest changes in over 20 years. From 1 July 2021, all Lower Hutt households will receive one wheelie bin for rubbish, another wheelie ... More >>
Friendly Face Masks For Kids
Saturday, 29 August 2020, 2:54 pm | Hutt City Council
Mask making at Common Unity A local project in Lower Hutt aims to reduce stress and anxiety experienced by some children by sewing colourful and fun masks and giving them away. ‘Friendly Face’ re-useable face masks will be free to children in ... More >>
Population Growth, Earthquakes And Noise
Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 11:55 am | Hutt City Council
Lower Hutt is about to start planning how the city will look, feel and operate in the decades ahead. Council is in the initial stage of reviewing the city’s District Plan - the rule book for managing land use and development in the city. Lower Hutt ... More >>