Council News
Council is promoting an online space for youth, with discussion topics that could help inform future council decisions.
Council has engaged engineering consultants Tonkin and Taylor to help create a future strategy plan for the management of Lake Hood, which has been affected by water quality issues over the past two summers.
The first concrete pour at the new Friendship Lane elderly persons housing project has happened this week.
Council will begin the formal process of closing part of a paper road at Chertsey, so it can build a new water treatment plant for the township.
It was my pleasure on Friday to declare Ashburton’s new library and civic centre officially open, even though I’ve had my feet under the desk here since the start of the year.
Fine weather has helped contractors seal the first road rehabilitation job of the new roading repair season.
Council has sold two of the four relocatable buildings it had up for tender, and is now offering community groups a chance to buy three older prefab classrooms at the former Polytech site on Cameron Street for just $1 each.
ACL staff have begun training on a new weed harvester that will operate at Lake Hood this summer.
Looking for some family fun over the school holidays?
What do you want Ashburton District to look like in 2045? That was the question Council posed to local school children recently and on Monday they came to tell us their visions.