Councils

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

SdE has welcomed last week’s confirmation that the current contract with WasteNet for the processing of recyclables will cease on 30 June 2020 and that both the Southland District and Gore District Councils will explore alternative options. This decision provides us with the certainty we have been s

Just when the Southland Museum saga couldn’t get any crazier, it’s been revealed that SMAG (Southland Museum Art Gallery) who everyone was lead to believe were owners of the building, are not. The true owner of the museum building is Invercargill City Council as documented in the agenda for the ICC

Now that I’m on council, I would like feedback on whether there is any other facility you would like us (ICC) to close before we start to digest how we can re open any of the following list: Andesons Park – closed for 4-5 years with no resolution Museum – closed for 2 years with […]