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Watch the timelapse video below of the bridge construction. The new Pyramid bridge across the Mataura River will be officially opened at a ceremony on Friday 26 June 2020. The new bridge opens ahead of schedule and more than $2 million under the initial budget in what has been a remarkable project c

The Southland District Council has approved a 2.31 per cent rate rise, and will look at rates relief for those suffering financial hardship on a case-by-case basis. The rise is less than the council’s long term plan forecast of 3.27 per cent, and also less than the 2.65% initially proposed earlier t

Extraordinary Meeting of the Invercargill City Council to be held in the Victoria Room, Civic Theatre on Thursday 28 May at 3.00 pm. Note: Sound isn’t the loudest in parts Read more here about the meeting https://bit.ly/2XGh569

An ambitious one-year bridge replacement programme kicked off in Southland District in May. Up to 19 bridges, most of them old wooden structures, will be replaced over the next 12 months, with the work divided into two contracts, northern and southern. SouthRoads has the northern contract of up to n

Southland District Council’s building solutions team is 100% electronic. Council’s new GoGet software went live on 6 May, giving the team the final tool that enables full electronic submission and processing of building consent applications. This means the old paper building forms are being phased o

Ratepayers are being asked to make a huge decision – whether to back the Invercargill City Council’s request for a loan from developers for the CBD development. An additional $16 million is needed before the major inner city project goes ahead, and the council has already contributed $30 million. Wi

We hear you, Southland building industry We’ve been hearing a lot of frustration in the building community in the past week as work resumed under Alert Level 3. There’s been an expectation that our building team would have been able to deal with your consent applications as fast as they came in. We’

Invercargill City councillors agreed this week to make the increase minimal because of the impact of Covid-19 on the economy and after advice from council’s finance manager. Rates will only increase by 2% for the year starting July 2020. The council was told year 3 of the long-term plan forecast a 3