The Whakatāne District Council’s Policy Committee is keen to understand all viewpoints on the possibility of creating Māori Wards, prior to the next local government elections in 2019.

The Whakatāne District Council’s Policy Committee has agreed that a private plan change application should be prepared to the Regional Water and Land Plan to address the high loss of life risk to people living in the Awatarariki Stream fanhead area.

Modcom Portable Buildings Limited has been awarded the contract to supply 10 relocatable homes for use by people displaced from their flood-damaged homes.

The symbolic ‘first sod’ will be turned at a special ground-breaking ceremony in Burgess Park on Wednesday to mark the start of the construction phase of the Whakatāne Museum and Research Centre’s redevelopment.

Plans to establish a ‘demonstration forest’ at the Whakatāne District Council’s Onepū Forest have been revised, and the 30-hectare block will now be replanted in pinus radiata.

A mobility scooter challenge through Kopeopeo has helped highlight issues – and some possible resolutions – around the concerns of many disabled members of the community.

Eighteen new citizens were welcomed to New Zealand and to the Whakatāne District in a ceremony held at the Whakatāne Civic Centre on Tuesday, 13 June 2017. 

The Whakatāne District Council has signed a conditional contract for the sale of its property at 77 Bunyan Road.

Whakatāne District Council’s paper-based property files are undergoing digitisation. The extensive file archive comprises 32,000 files and an estimated 5.5 million documents.