The financial strategy behind next year’s Whakatāne District Council Long Term Plan (LTP) forecasts 10 years of low average rate rises for the District.
Children aged five to 12 are invited to take part in the Summer Camping Reading Programme, Te Raumati – Te Puni – Te Panui, promoting books and reading.
The Whakatāne District Council now has one of the best-qualified building control teams in New Zealand, with six of its seven Building Control Officers being awarded with double national diplomas.
The eastern end of Pyne Street in Whakatāne will be closed from 7 am to 5 pm each day from 18 December until the end of the month, excluding Christmas and Boxing Day.
Whakatāne District Council staff, family members and contractor partners made a huge splash at the Sovereign Tinman Triathlon in Mount Maunganui on Sunday.
Flushing of fire hydrants in the Whakatāne urban area has now been completed and has confirmed that the town’s water reticulation system is generally in good shape.
Changes to the way building consent applications are lodged and processed are set to be rolled out across much of the central North Island from December onwards.
The section of State Highway 2 between Awakeri and Tāneatua (White Pine Bush Road) will be closed overnight on Monday, 1 December while maintenance is undertaken on the Pekatahi Bridge.
The extra flow created by very high tides late last week has carved a considerable chunk off the sand build-up in the Whakatāne River channel, adjacent to ‘The Lady on the Rock’.
Members of the Grow Whakatāne Advisory Board have condemned Air New Zealand’s decision to withdraw scheduled air services from Whakatāne Airport and other regional centres in April next year.
Two new road names for the Port Ōhope Seascape subdivision development at Port Ōhope were approved by the Whakatāne District Council’s Policy Committee at its meeting on 13 November.
The three Eastern Bay of Plenty District Councils have made a joint submission seeking amendments to proposed natural hazard provisions in the Bay of Plenty Regional Council’s newly operative Regional Policy Statement (RPS).
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