Franklin District Council
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The township population of Pukekohe is approx. 19,000 people. Pukekohe is Franklin’s main town along with Waiuku (population approx 5,500) and Tuakau (population approx 3000). Latest population figures show Franklin with a population of approx 58,932 and growing. Franklin is still primarily rural and we are proud of our country feel. Saying this, Pukekohe has two major supermarkets, some ‘big box’ shopping and a lively main street with many restaurants and cafés. Franklin is only approximately 30 minutes from Manukau City Centre, 50 minutes from downtown Auckland and approximately an hour from Hamilton. There are lots of recreational options in Franklin. Pukekohe has a Council owned recreation centre with a gym and indoor heated swimming pool along with outdoor pools around the district. We have beautiful coast on both sides including the black sand beach of Karioitahi, and the beaches of Port Waikato and the Awhitu Peninsula. We are also well known for motor sports and horse racing.
WAIUKU — Queen Street in Waiuku is starting to shine as the town centre upgrade continues.
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WAIKATO — The Elbow Reserve in Aka Aka is being destroyed by mindless vandalism and Franklin District Council is appealing to the community to help find a way to protect the reserve.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council’s dog and animal control contractor, Animal Management, visited View Road School this week as part of the new dog education programme in Franklin.
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AUCKLAND — Onewhero-Tuakau Bridge Road (known locally as Punt Hill) was closed between 31 July and 11 August due to land under the road moving, cracking the road.
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AUCKLAND — Throughout the year rural fire fighters support the Franklin community by attending fires, rescues and other incidents.
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AUCKLAND — Crossroads is a special black and white photographic exhibition featuring roadside crosses (which mark road deaths) and its coming to Franklin.
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AUCKLAND — Pukekawa/Churchill Road, Pukekawa; Murray Road, South of the Tuakau Bridge and Alder Road, Tuakau are open.
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WAIKATO — Pukekohe and Pokeno residents have a new UV disinfection system for their water supply.
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The Wesley College Under 15 rugby team will be taking the ‘Speed Kills’ message onto the field this Saturday when they line up for the season final.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee on Thursday resolved to consult on a range of proposed bylaws over the next month.
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AUCKLAND — After four weeks of public feedback the Franklin District Council (Contribution To Funding Of Museums) Amendment Bill has been lodged by Council with the Office of the Clerk of Parliament.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council, together with the Pokeno Landowner Consortium (PLC) and the local community, has been looking at how the future development of Pokeno can best be guided.
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AUCKLAND — Three further roads are closed in Franklin due to flooding.
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AUCKLAND — Below are three issues which Franklin District Council is currently managing.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council has released a second draft of the Heritage Strategy Discussion Document, giving you another chance to let Council know what you think.
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WAIUKU — No one thinks problems with alcohol related harm can be sorted overnight, but a group of dedicated organisations, including Franklin District Council and Franklin Safer Community Council, are making things happen.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin’s Road Safety Liaison Group had some grim reading at their latest meeting as they reviewed the Serious Crash Report for 03 June to 08 July.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council’s elected members and staff had the opportunity to try a short obstacle course wearing ‘fatal vision goggles’ before today’s Activity and Monitoring Committee meeting.
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AUCKLAND — Mayor Mark Ball accepted a gift of almost 3,000 seats from the Eden Park Trust Board in May this year.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council and the Cape Hill Trust will be working together towards providing more residential land in Pukekohe.
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AUCKLAND — A recent survey has proven what Franklin District Council and almost 10,000 visitors a month already know Franklin District Councils website is a great resource!
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin: The Centre has been recognised again, this time as winner of the Excellence in Education and Arts Property Award in the 2008 Property Council New Zealand Awards.
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PUKEKOHE — Local vet clinics, Franklin Vets and Pukekohe Veterinary Centre, are partnering with Franklin District Council to offer special microchipping clinics early this month.
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AUCKLAND — Many cyclists find Franklin District a fantastic place to ride.
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WAIUKU — The main work that everyone has been looking forward to in Waiuku is the town centre upgrade – new paving, street furniture, planting, lighting – the things that make the town sparkle.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin’s “Lady of Achievement” Papatuanuku carving has stood in the Pukekohe town centre since the completion of the town square upgrade.
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AUCKLAND — Speed, driver error and alcohol are still the main reasons that Franklin residents continue to have serious accidents on Franklin roads.
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PUKEKOHE — To help ensure public safety the rules for obtaining a road closure for a motorsport event are changing.
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PUKEKOHE — Anyone who senses something familiar when they look at the new Plunket sign in Pukekohe are right – they are looking at almost 50 years of history.
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AUCKLAND — Sally Davis, Franklin District Council CEO, announced today that she has appointed James Jefferson to be Group Manager Environmental Services at Franklin District Council.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin CEO, Sally Davis has great pleasure in announcing that Sue O’Gorman has been appointed Group Manager Corporate Services at Franklin District Council and will take up her new role on 7 July.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District made the top 10 in the best performing Districts/Cities in New Zealand in the 2007 BERL (Business and Economic Research Limited) report.
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AUCKLAND — Sally Davis, Franklin CEO, said this morning “I am delighted to announce that Barry Bergin will be joining FDC as the new GM Works & Services.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council, CEO, Sally Davis announced today that Ian Alexander has been appointed Group Manager, Community Facilities in the new senior management team at Council.
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AUCKLAND — If you speed past a school this term everyone around you is going to know about it.
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AUCKLAND — Most serious crashes in the last six weeks involved local skilled workers not driving to the conditions, or driver error, on rural Franklin roads.
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AUCKLAND — The Royal Commission on Auckland Governance will hold hearings within Franklin on Wednesday 7 May and Friday 9 May in the Pukekohe War Memorial Town Hall Concert Chamber, Massey Avenue, Pukekohe.
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AUCKLAND — In 2005 Denne Parkinson, Principal of Pokeno School, read about a Community Partnerships Loan Funding Scheme offered by Franklin District Council.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council, CEO, Sally Davis announced today that she has made the first Group Manager appointment as part of the organisation’s restructure.
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AUCKLAND — After one of the driest summers in the District’s history, which included a month long fire ban, Franklin District Council is lifting the restricted fire season.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin: The Centre has been awarded a New Zealand Institute of Architecture (NZIA) Resene New Zealand Award for Architecture 2008.
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AUCKLAND — In 2006-2007 Franklin District Council successfully completed a $900,000 refurbishment of 30 pensioner housing flats in Albert Place, Pukekohe, thanks to Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZC) funding.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council and the West End Residents and Landowners Association (WERLA) have signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as the first step towards a new, planned neighbourhood in Pukekohe.
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AUCKLAND — As part of its on-going commitment to actively seek public opinion and involvement, Franklin District Council is to conduct a survey of its residents.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council will operate from a simulated Emergency Operations Centre during the two main days of Exercise Ruaumoko on 13 and 14 March.
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AUCKLAND — Have you noticed you can breathe easier in the indoor pool? Don’t smell of chlorine for the rest of you day after a refreshing swim? It’s not just you! Franklin District Council and Community Leisure Management (CLM) have combined resources to install an ultra violet (UV) sterilisation system at the Franklin indoor pool.
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AUCKLAND — Over the next few weeks an education video about Auckland’s volcanic hazards will be playing in the atrium of Franklin: The Centre.
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PUKEKOHE — Hall Street, part of Stage Two of the Pukekohe Town Centre Upgrade, will not have a final finished look until the beginning of April, due to a paving issue that has disappointed all involved.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Mayor, Mark Ball, presented long time Franklin resident, Vinu Morar, with a brand new Avanti Bike last week.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has been greatly encouraged by the response to the Cleaner Franklin campaign over the last few months.
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AUCKLAND — After much needed rainfall Franklin District Council, as the Fire Authority for the Franklin District, has announced the District will return to a Restricted Fire Season on 6th March.
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AUCKLAND — Ever thought someone should be educating young drivers about driver safety before they get behind the wheel?
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AUCKLAND — Keen cyclists, children on trikes and BMX enthusiasts turned out in their hundreds for Tuesday night’s Mayoral Challenge, wowing organisers and putting Franklin District square in the running for the title of “Cycle Mad District.â€Â
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has confirmed that the Prohibited Fire Season is still in place.
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AUCKLAND — There are only a couple of weeks until Franklin’s Mayoral Challenge on 26th February and the event is hotting up – literally.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council, in partnership with their swimming pool contractor Community Leisure Management (CLM), has launched a new initiative for Community Service Card Holders.
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AUCKLAND — When Franklin District Council notified its District Plan in May 1994 it was hard to imagine that one part of the Plan would be the subject of ongoing negotiation and litigation for nearly 14 years.
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AUCKLAND — Residents who have been enjoying parks and beaches within Franklin this summer have also been helping Franklin District Council plan for the future.
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AUCKLAND — Contractors for Franklin District Council have confirmed that the summer sun is doing damage - and we aren’t talking about dried out paddocks.
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AUCKLAND — Mangonui residents will have a further opportunity to discuss the controversial Mangonui waterfront redevelopment project at a public meeting scheduled for Friday 15 February 2008.
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AUCKLAND — When you think about litter what is it you think about? Paper? Plastic bottles? Cans? These are a problem but there is one item that accounts for around 50% of all litter worldwide – cigarette butts!* That’s why Franklin District Council has decided to tackle the problem of cigarette butts head on and install cigarette disposal units at key locations in Tuakau and Pukekohe (Waiuku already has these).
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council Mayor, Mark Ball, has confirmed that he will challenge the country for the title of ‘Cycle Mad District’ in this year’s Franklin District Bike Wise event.
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AUCKLAND — From Tuesday, 5th February 2008, a Prohibited Fire Season will be in force in Franklin.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has the information you need to make sure every drop of water you use, counts.
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AUCKLAND — As part of stage two of the Town Centre Upgrade, Franklin District Council has been assessing the future prospects for the two Oriental Plane trees in the median strip on Hall Street.
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AUCKLAND — The Franklin District Council office in Pukekohe was the first port of call for the Commissioners who make up the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, as they started a series of meetings with all of the seven authorities in the region.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council’s new Road Safety Co-ordinator, Monique Haines, has launched right into her new role – unveiling Franklin and Papakura’s joint road safety campaign.
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AUCKLAND — Due to community requests, Franklin District’s condolence book for Sir Edmund Hillary will move from the Pukekohe Council Office to Franklin: The Centre from 21st – 25th January.
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AUCKLAND — Employment, congestion, business development, difficulties for pedestrians and a major vehicle thoroughfare.
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AUCKLAND — The people of Franklin District, where Sir Edmund Hillary spent many of his younger years, will have the opportunity to sign a condolence book in remembrance of his life.
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AUCKLAND — The Waiuku Outdoor Swimming Pool opened for the summer season on 7th January.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council has initiated the second stage of the Pukekohe Town Centre Redevelopment by appointing Peter Robinson Contractors Ltd.
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AUCKLAND — Motorists are being warned there could be temporary delays when construction work starts on repairs to a major Bay of Islands arterial roading link on 07 January 2008.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council and local Police are setting up an action plan to tackle antisocial and dangerous behaviour at Karioitahi beach.
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AUCKLAND — Two special morning teas were held last week for the residents of Franklin District Council’s pensioner units.
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AUCKLAND — Earlier this year Franklin District Council flushed out the water pipes in Pukekohe, a major project for all involved.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council, as the Fire Authority for the Franklin District, announces the start of a restricted fire season.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council and the Franklin Safer Community Council showed their commitment to crime free communities by hosting a “Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design” (CPTED) Workshop last week.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pokeno Landowner’s Consortium (PLC) in an historic move which aims to ensure the best growth outcomes for all involved.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council is hoping to receive plenty of feedback after releasing the Heritage Strategy Discussion Document today.
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PUKEKOHE — When you think about litter what is it you think about? Paper? Plastic bottles? Cans? These are a problem but there is one item that accounts for around 50% of all litter worldwide – cigarette butts!* That’s why Franklin District Council has decided to tackle the problem of cigarette butts head on and install cigarette disposal units at key locations in Tuakau and Pukekohe (Waiuku already has these).
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has officially received its Building Consent Authority accreditation and registration certificates.
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AUCKLAND — For the first time Franklin District Council has collected over 200 tonnes of recycling in the kerbside collection that operates in the three main town centres.
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AUCKLAND — Since June 2007 Franklin District Council has been focusing on protecting the District from Natural Hazards.
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AUCKLAND — Residents of Pukekohe have a new seat to rest on thanks to the generosity of the Pukekohe Lions Club.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council will be increasing its parking enforcement from 4 hours a week to 20 hours a week from Monday 5th of November.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has learnt it is one of the first seven councils in New Zealand to be registered and accredited as a Building Consent Authority.
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NORTHLAND — Franklin District Council is reminding residents that roadside open drains need to remain clear of vegetation and rubbish or roads will flood in heavy rain.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council is once again supporting the South Auckland Family Violence Prevention Network ‘Choose 2 B Violence Free’ week.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has more good news for Waiuku – Council reports that they are approximately 70% of the way through the Waiuku Town Centre Stormwater Improvement project.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council held a farewell morning tea for its outgoing CEO Phillippa Wilson at the Council Offices today.
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AUCKLAND — One October saw the introduction by Franklin District Council of speed limit changes within the District.
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WAIUKU — Celia Lashlie and Norm Hewitt will be back visiting Waiuku in October and excitement is starting to grow about their two public events.
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AUCKLAND — This year’s election marks the end of local body politics for two long serving Community Board members.
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AUCKLAND — Voting papers for this year’s local body elections have been in the hands of most voters for at least a week.
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AUCKLAND — From 21 September the future of Franklin District Council will be in the hands of the voters.
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WAIUKU — The concept plan for the Waiuku Sports Park has been finalised.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has adopted changes to the District’s Dog Policy.
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AUCKLAND — Clean Up New Zealand week starts tomorrow and Franklin District Council is reminding residents of a simple way to help the streets stay clean - take a minute to sort and secure recycling.
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