23 November 2018 Issue 1280 Kate & Steph Love What We Do Real Estate Licensed Agent REAA 2008. Kate Wynn 021 855 735 Stephanie McLean 021 164 5111 Hoverd & Co. SPeCIAL AGENTs IAN 027 285 9314 JENNY0204000 2564 NICOLETTE027 702 9157 SEAVIEW WATER Niamh McCormack of Beachlands Maraetai Pony Club (left), and Ruby Jackson of Beachlands Maraetai Rugby Club (right) represent two of the community organisations who were proud to donate Nyra Priestley (centre) a heat pump. Ph: 0508 732 843 Online bookings at www.seaviewwater.co.nz Community groups put the heat on charity shop $300 per 17,000 litres A warm-hearted Beachlands woman has been treated to a They are members of Beachlands Maraetai Football Club MORTON TIMBER CO. LTD toasty winter in her home-based charity shop thanks to local and also part of Te Puru Sea Scouts who have been fundraising For All Your Timber & Hardware Supplies community groups that donated a heat pump. for Jamboree. 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Open Saturdays 7.30am to 12pm Prompt delivery service available 226 North Rd, Clevedon Ph: 2928-656 or 021 943 220 Rocky year for project p3 Hunua’s ferret problem p4 Clevedon/Whitford feature p5-7 Email: [email protected] Web: www.mortontimber.co.nz INSIDE: Our timber is sourced from renewable plantations Beachlands James Gavin Donovan Maraetai Solicitors "Bringing water to your community Ph.09 869 4565 for 30 years" water For all your legal requirements • Conveyancing • Commercial • Relationship Property Tony Rawson ~ The Water Man • Litigation • Traffic Offences • Wills, Estates and Trusts Ph: 273 9763 [email protected] 42 Kouka Rd, Beachlands DEADLINES: Display Advertising - 5pm Friday, Classifieds and News - Midday Monday Ph: 536 5715 Email: [email protected] Web: www.pctimes.nz 2 POHUTUKAWA COAST TIMES 23 November 2018) Guest Editorial This week's guest editorial is supplied by Deputy Mayor Bill Cashmore Franklin and Auckland are rapidly changing. Growth is both a challenge GET IN TOUCH and an opportunity. Since amalgamation (Figure 3) P: 536 5715 2010 to the present-day, Auckland has E: [email protected] grown by almost 300,000 people. This W: www.pctimes.co.nz current year’s population increase is esti- F: facebook.com/pctimes mated to be around 30,000. Catering for A: PO Box 5, Beachlands 2147 this growth means we must think around First floor, 129A Beachlands Road, new ways of delivering what is required Beachlands both locally and regionally. The 10-year budget has financed a cap- EDITOR ital investment programme of $26 billion Leanne Chamberlin focused on transport, water infrastructure 021 426 207 and services. [email protected] Rates increases for the next 2 years are fixed at 2.5%. ADVERTISING Figure 2 shows the rapid popula- ing depreciation which is a very large and budget is spent on transport, 8% on Melody Cutfield tion increases since 2013. This means real expense. water, wastewater and storm water and 021 0261 4467 that Auckland will reach a population By 2024 depreciation will be 100% 30% on parks and community. [email protected] of 2 million people, 4 years earli- funded which means our requirement for Your funding of the Regional Fuel er than originally planned in 2028. additional borrowing begins to fall away. Tax is contributing $150M per annum. ACCOUNTS & CIRCULATION Yet over that time council’s operating In layman’s terms this means the assets Plus, the Government’s funded roading Pam Rutherford expenditure has increased by an average that need replacing are fully funded. subsidy of another $150M per annum of only 1.1% pa. and this includes fund- 536 7164 Key budget areas are; 33% of the total and a further $130M per annum from [email protected] additional borrowings and development contributions. This means the Regional FEATURES (Figure 2) Fuel Tax is bringing in a total of $430M Melody Cuteld OTHER ENQUIRIES per annum for transport. 021 0261 4467 [email protected] Franklin Priorities [email protected] Upcoming features: Pine Harbor Ferry terminal, growth 30 November: Water, water, related infrastructure, roading im- everywhere. provements and reticulated water and wastewater. 7 December: Urban East & Electrification of the main trunk line Christmas Shopping and increased laning of SH1 from Takanini to Drury. Already funded is over $200M for electric trains and $60M The Pohutukawa Coast Times is for rural road safety. distributed weekly to 6200 homes The targeted rate for natural environ- and businesses in: Whitford, ment delivers an additional spend of Brookby, Beachlands, Maraetai, $31M per annum to have regionwide Clevedon, Alfriston, Kawakawa Bay, pest destruction, enhanced weed con- Orere Pt, Hunua, Paparimu trol, support for community based envi- Member of the New Zealand ronment based activities and improving Community Newspapers biosecurity and ecology. Association Funding for new and improved parks Whitford Community Day networks has been increased by 52% to $130M. 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Above right: Hunua resident Jane Berney says the The Hunua Triangle sign, made by local engineer Jason Crosby, “anchors and identifies” the special space created by the community. The hard work done by the Hunua com- River,” says Jane. “We are struggling to understand how heads,” says Jane. munity to landscape the Hunua Triangle Recently several people have seen a that person or people feel they have the The police have been notified, but space is being undone by the theft of large person in a van stopping and removing right to take - steal - these. In broad HAPVRA is appealing for the person to rocks from the site. rocks from the site. daylight. They must have rocks in their return what they have taken.