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Are you overdue a getaway? You could win a 13-day Sir Edmund Hillary Explorer South Island Rail & Coach tour by participating in Neighbourly’s 8th birthday celebration.
To enter the competition, just tell us what you love about your neighbourhood. It could be your favourite spot, a … View moreAre you overdue a getaway? You could win a 13-day Sir Edmund Hillary Explorer South Island Rail & Coach tour by participating in Neighbourly’s 8th birthday celebration.
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Spark have recently announced a price increase of $3 - $5 a month for new and existing broadband customers and other providers seem likely to follow suit.
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Information collated by our research team has found that tens of thousands of Kiwis are still missing out on hundreds of dollars of savings each year on their broadband bill, because they are failing to shop around for cheaper broadband plans.
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CORRECTION: This post has been amended to clarify that the price of fibre and copper broadband internet services will increase, and that the increase is between $3 and $5 a month, not only $5 a month on fibre broadband plans as previously posted. (Amended at 10.31am, June 23, 2022)
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From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Universal fluoridation is not on the cards yet in the Ashburton District, but is certainly bubbling on the horizon.
A law change last year has given the authority to instruct councils whether or not to fluoridate their water to the director-general of… View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Universal fluoridation is not on the cards yet in the Ashburton District, but is certainly bubbling on the horizon.
A law change last year has given the authority to instruct councils whether or not to fluoridate their water to the director-general of health, currently Dr Ashley Bloomfield.
Ashburton District Council infrastructure services group manager Neil McCann said so far the district was not on the fluoride radar.
“Not at this stage but we may be considered again toward end of the calendar year,” he said.
“Council was advised in June this year that we were not included in a list of 14 territorial authorities that were being considered to receive a direction to fluoridate some supplies under their control.”
Ashburton stopped fluoridation across all its supplies in 2002, which was reconsidered in 2007 but not reintroduced, and Methven is currently the only drinking water supply that is fluoridated in the district.
But mandatory fluoridation is in the pipeline.
Universal chlorination of council drinking water supplies will come in from November under Taumata Arowai, the national water services regulator, but Ashburton supplies are already chlorinated.
Fluoridation is not a water quality issue but a health concern so, after the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Act came into force in December 2021 the decision was taken off councils and given to the director-general of health.
It is understood 14 councils throughout the country have been selected to begin working on fluoridating their water supplies, and others are sure to follow.
A Ministry of Health spokesperson said the director-general of health had not yet issued any local authorities with directions to fluoridate, but it was likely they would commence issuing directions this year.
"Implementation of community water fluoridation will likely take a staged approach. If directions are issued, timeframes for compliance will be based on the individual circumstances of each supply."
Other than Methven, McCann said no other council supplies have the infrastructure to fluoridate the supply and as they are awaiting Government direction there is no provisions to do so either.
“We haven’t made specific budget provision for fluoridation, however, we are considering space requirements for fluoridation equipment as part of future planning,” McCann said.
It’s a similar case in Selwyn.
Water services asset manager Murray England said the Selwyn district had no supplies with fluoride and none of its schemes were currently able to be fluoridated, nor was there any budget for installing the necessary equipment.
Fibre is here so come in to see the team of Chorus experts for a chat over a cup of coffee or tea when they're at Somerset Grocer on Wednesday the 27th of July from 3pm till 5pm.
If you’ve got questions about installation, improving your current internet connection or livening up … View moreFibre is here so come in to see the team of Chorus experts for a chat over a cup of coffee or tea when they're at Somerset Grocer on Wednesday the 27th of July from 3pm till 5pm.
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The great news is it’s still free to get fibre installed for most homes.
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From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Drinking and waste water options for the rapidly developing areas around Ashburton could be on the table in the next long-term plan (LTP).
The Ashburton District Council has a $200,000 budget to investigate extending its drinking water and wastewater… View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
Drinking and waste water options for the rapidly developing areas around Ashburton could be on the table in the next long-term plan (LTP).
The Ashburton District Council has a $200,000 budget to investigate extending its drinking water and wastewater networks which will feed into planning for the next LTP.
Council infrastructure services group manager Neil McCann said there was $100,000 funding for the 2022-23 financial year to investigate the possibility of providing a wastewater service to Residential D zoned land around Ashburton.
Then there was $100,000 allocated from the 2021-22 year to carry out detailed design for potable water supply in the north east of Ashburton, which McCann said was now planned to be done in conjunction with the wastewater investigations.
“This funding was established to investigate the feasibility of providing wastewater services to the north east Ashburton and other areas on the periphery of Ashburton zoned Residential D.
“Whilst the water funding includes detailed design, the wastewater funding doesn’t include design of any extensions at this stage.”
The feasibility study would determine options for servicing the areas, the likely rough order cost of each option, and how any extension might be funded, he said.
“The main difficulty with extensions of this nature is that the landowners interested in developing their land may see the benefit of the service and be prepared to pay, but landowners who already have a satisfactory onsite disposal system and no interest in development may not want to pay.”
McCann said a council workshop would use the findings of the investigative work to guide the next steps in the process.
For the northwest area of Ashburton, there was already a $4.9 million wastewater servicing project this year.
McCann said the project would provide the physical infrastructure necessary for wastewater servicing to an area bounded by Farm Rd, Racecourse Rd, Allens Rd, and Mill Creek.
“This area has a higher priority, as it is zoned Residential C, typical urban residential development.”
It was suggested at a recent council meeting that, with the impending handover of assets and projects to the new Three Waters entities, it would make sense to have the three waters water projects in the pipeline as soon as possible to avoid them being put to the back of a long line of proposed projects across the country.
McCann said it remained unclear how any planned works would be programmed and progressed in the transition to the new entities.
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