Slowing the Water Flow

Your Weekly Update from New Plymouth District Council Slowing the water ﬂ ow Have your say on our suburban business centres OUR CONSISTENTLY wet weather We want to find out how the business is causing some challenges for centres of Westown, Moturoa, Fitzroy residential properties across the and Bell Block are used and what district. could be done to attract more people Heavy rainfall can result in issues to them. around stormwater flowing from one The information we get from the property to another. public will guide the Mayor and While this is a private matter between Councillors when decisions are being property owners (as it’s against the made regarding the future of these law to direct stormwater onto another’s suburban business centres. property), the Council has some advice One suburban centre will be the on how you and your neighbours can work focus each week. together to reduce these problems. Please send us your feedback • When landscaping your outdoor areas – by going to newplymouthnz.com/ for instance, to create a garden or lawn HaveYourSay. – make sure the surface water flow isn’t blocked or concentrated in areas that Stay informed with NPDC weren’t affected before the work began. Keeping up with the latest Council • If you have added hard surfaces, such news is easy! Just ‘like’ us on as a driveway or patio, ensure that you still Facebook or follow our Twitter feed – have enough soft surfacing (lawns and Trees, shrubs and grass can help reduce the effects of surface water on your property. see the bottom of this page for details. gardens) to soak up rainfall. You can also have a drainlayer build a vertical soak- hole to increase your property’s water pipe is still able to handle our wetter on rather than run away, which will benefit soakage capacity, or consider installing weather. Is it the right size? Has the pipe both your property and your neighbour’s. COUNCIL MEETINGS horizontal storage pits or rain cells. been blocked, crushed or silted up? Has If you do remove vegetation, consider • If the water catchment area for your soak- it collapsed? Make this check part of your how you’ll compensate for that. hole is at ground level (e.g. a driveway), regular home maintenance. Stormwater disposal may not be as 27 September to install a silt trap to preserve the life of the • Plant more trees, shrubs and grass to simple as it seems so we advise that you 13 October soak-hole. slow the flow of surface water and provide get professional advice before starting • Check that your property’s stormwater a greater surface area for the water to sit your stormwater improvement project. * Planning Committee 3.30pm on Wednesday 27 September What to do about doggie-doo * Performance Committee 3.30pm on Thursday 28 September MOST DOG owners are great about “Please always take a plastic bag with cleaning up after their dogs in public you when walking your dog and do your bit Audit and Risk Committee places, but a few are letting the side for the community by cleaning up after it.” 10am on Friday 29 September The community can also help by down says NPDC Compliance Lead * Council contacting the Council if they notice a dog Cheryl McGrath. 3.30pm on Tuesday 10 October “We’ve received a few complaints owner leaving their pet’s faeces behind. recently about dog poo not being picked If you can identify the dog owner (e.g. * To be broadcast, with a recording available, up, which is a health hazard as well as the registration plate of the car they get via newplymouthnz.com. being unsightly on our footpaths and in into), please contact us on 06-759 6060 or [email protected]. The dog owner Agenda papers will be available for inspection parks,” she says. at least two business days prior to the meeting “Most dog fouling occurs in the early will be spoken to and might be issued a via newplymouthnz.com. These meetings will morning or evening. $300 fine. take place in the Civic Centre, New Plymouth. PUBLIC NOTICE Proposed change of Reserve pursuant to Section 24(1) by a driveway off Drake Street. Plymouth 4342, to be closed. classification of a reserve (b) of the Reserves Act 1977. Details of the property can be viewed • Hand-delivered to the Civic Centre, Accordingly, in terms of Section NPDC HAS resolved that after This dual classification will enable online or by request to the Property Liardet Street, New Plymouth, 342(1)(b) of the Local Government one month from the publication the grant of a ground lease to the Team – email [email protected]. • Emailed to [email protected]. Act 1974 the Council directs that of this notice (subject to a final NZ Deerstalkers Association (North Anyone may make a submission nz, or Octavius Place, at its intersection decision after full consideration of Taranaki Branch Inc) for the existing on, or object to, the proposal. • Submitted online at newplymouth with Eliot Street, be closed from 6am any objection received), and acting building owned by the club. Submissions and objections must nz.com/HaveYourSay. to 7pm on Thursday 28 and Friday under a delegation from the Minister The reserve is about 1.4ha, be received no later than 4pm 29 September or until the works are of Conservation, to change the described as LOT 1 DP 8444, and on Wednesday 25 October and Temporary road closure: completed (weather permitting). The classification of the Drake Street is currently used as a community addressed to the Property Officer – Octavius Place road will reopen without further notice. Recreation Reserve from recreation playground adjacent to Drake Street Community Leases, and either: THE PLACEMENT of precast panels Please direct enquiries to Aaron reserve purposes to a Local Purpose and for grazing, and also houses the • Posted to New Plymouth District and concrete at 4 Octavius Place, Stephens of Clelands Construction (community purposes and recreation) NZ Deerstalkers’ clubroom accessed Council, Private Bag 2025, New New Plymouth will require the road on 027 3376 767. For more information: New Plymouth District Council, Private Bag 2025, New Plymouth 4342 Phone. 06-759 6060 Fax. 06-759 6072 Email. [email protected] Web. newplymouthnz.com; facebook.com/newplymouthdistrictcouncil; twitter.com/npdcouncil.

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