Council News
Contractors working for KiwiRail will be undertaking repairs on the Tinwald viaduct from 1-20 December and there will be no access for pedestrians or cyclists.
There are wedding bells ringing at Rokowhiria, the Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum, where staff are preparing a special collection of wedding gowns for public viewing.
Ashburton’s housing market is heating up more than the rest of the country, according to quarterly economic data provided to Council by Infometrics.
The West Street carpark is being added to the area currently under the trial of new Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) parking compliance technology.
The big news nationally in local government this week has been the changes Government is proposing for regional councils, like Environment Canterbury.
Plans for a new bike skills park in the Ashburton Domain have received a $115,000 injection via a grant from the Lion Foundation.
Our long-time favourite Christmas event, the Great Santa Hunt, once again heads the list of activities in this summer’s What’s On Guide.
Households on the Ashburton drinking water scheme might experience periodic low pressure for the next few weeks while contractors upgrade the Ashburton Domain water treatment plant.
Contractors working on the demolition of the old Polytech building on Cameron Street are getting ready to move into stage two of the project, now that asbestos has been removed by a specialist team.
Council’s new roading operations and maintenance contractor Fulton Hogan Ashburton will initially concentrate on digouts and linemarking when it takes over the job on 1 December.