Your Weekly Update from New Plymouth District Council Only days left to have tickets on sale now The Chiefs will be back in Taranaki this winter, following a fantastic summer road trip that took them from your say on Easter Trading Whangamomona to Urenui last month. Tickets are now on sale for their HAVE YOU had your say on whether for our community.” communities by allowing trading in some trans-Tasman Investec or not local shops should be allowed In August 2016 the Government areas and not in others. clash against the Reds at to open on Easter Sunday? amended the Shop Trading Hours Act For example, some communities may Yarrow Stadium on 6 May. The Council’s proposed Easter Sunday 1990, enabling councils throughout New feel they will benefit by opening on Easter Get your tickets now! Tickets are Shop Trading Policy has been open Zealand to decide whether to allow trading Sunday as they may have a high number available at TSB Showplace and on Easter Sunday. for public submissions, which ends on of travellers or tourists in their towns. ticketdirect.co.nz, with prices from $10 There are three options that NPDC Monday next week (20 February). Option 3: No trading on Easter Sunday for children and $20 for adults. would like to get your feedback on: “There’s still time to send in your opinion throughout New Plymouth District. This Option 1: Allowing trading on Easter Bell Block sewage pipe is the status quo, noting that businesses on what the Council should or should not Sunday throughout New Plymouth improvements allow regarding retail activity on Easter District, with shops having the option to that are already exempt would be able to We are carrying out maintenance on Sunday,” says NPDC Group Manager open or not. continue to operate on that day. the sewerage network in Bell Block Strategy Liam Hodgetts. Option 2: Allowing trading on Easter Have your say by going online to over the next couple of months, which “We’ve had more than 100 submissions Sunday in parts of New Plymouth District. newplymouthnz.com/EasterTrading and will reduce public access on Mangati so far, and we want to hear your opinion Under this option, a policy can be tailored filling in the submission form by 5pm this Walkway. so that we can get the right policy in place to take into account the requests of Monday. The section from Parklands Avenue to Lantana Drive will have periods of reduced public access until Friday 31 Backyard heroes in the spotlight at Brooklands Zoo March. The accessways from Lantana and BROOKLANDS ZOO turns its focus Camellia avenues will be closed to the on the smaller critters with two Meet public during this time. the Keeper events. Please read the signs and take These talks are part of Puke Ariki’s care in these areas during the work exhibition programme for BUGS: Our period. Thank you in advance for your Backyard Heroes. flexibility and patience. NPDC Head Keeper Louise McKenna says bugs have a vital role in keeping the Migrant Women Meet natural environment clean and productive. This regular event invites migrant “They control the population of many women in the Taranaki community pest species, they dispose of our wastes who find themselves far from home to and they recycle organic nutrients,” she connect over a cup of tea. says. Come along from 11am to 12.30pm “At the Meet the Keeper talks we’ll be on Tuesday next week (21 February), taking a closer look at some of our bugs in the Community Lounge on level one and showing how everyone can create a of Puke Ariki Library. bug-friendly environment in their gardens.” These free Meet the Keeper Talks are from 11am to noon today (Wednesday) and this Saturday (18 February). Please Two weta find snug homes for themselves in the weta hotel at Brooklands Zoo. COUNCIL MEETINGS meet at the monarch butterfly sign.

PUBLIC NOTICES 15 to 24 February

Audit and Risk Committee Council meetings 9am on Friday 10 March. Where no venue is shown, the 342(1)(b) of the Local Government 10am on Thursday 16 February NEW PLYMOUTH DISTRICT • Planning Committee at 4.30pm meetings will be held at the Civic Act 1974 the Council directs that COUNCIL will hold the following on Tuesday 21 March. Centre, New Plymouth. Dudley Road Lower be closed to * Performance Committee meetings in March: • Creative Communities Advisory Venues: 1 – Hempton Hall, all traffic from 8am to 4.30pm on Committee at 2pm on Wednesday Okato; 2 – Inglewood Library and 4.30pm on Thursday 16 February • Extraordinary Council meeting Monday 20 February or until the 22 March. Service Centre; 3 – Tikorangi Hall; (Easter Trading Policy) at 1pm on works are completed (weather Len Lye Committee • Performance Committee at 4.30pm 4 – Waitara Library and Service Monday 6 March. permitting). 3pm on Monday 20 February on Thursday 23 March. Centre. 1 The road will reopen without • Kaitake Community Board at • Council at 4.30pm on Tuesday 4 * To be broadcast, with a recording available, 7pm on Monday 6 March. April. Temporary road closure: further notice. • Inglewood Community Board2 at Agenda papers will be available Dudley Road Lower A detour will be in place via via newplymouthnz.com. Tarata Road. 1.30pm on Tuesday 7 March. for inspection at least two business THE INSTALLATION of a culvert Agenda papers will be available for inspection 3 • Clifton Community Board at 9am days prior to the meeting via at at 26 Dudley Road Lower will Please direct all enquiries to at least two business days prior to the meeting on Thursday 9 March. newplymouthnz.com or at Council require the road to be closed. Trent Foley of Fulton Hogan on via newplymouthnz.com. These meetings will 4 • Waitara Community Board at offices and libraries. Accordingly, in terms of Section 027 809 8903. take place in the Civic Centre, New Plymouth.

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