Hastings District Council

HASTINGS — Independent accredited commissioners Alan Watson and Terry Brown have recommended Hastings District Council can change its District Plan to allow the Regional Sports Park project to proceed, and Hastings District Councillors have this afternoon voted to accept the recommendation.

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Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule has hailed the success of Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell at the Beijing Olympics, describing them as local and national heroes.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council staff can now get fit, save fuel and reduce their carbon-foot print while getting across the city, on the councils first fleet bike.

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HASTINGS — Final settlement has been made on the sale of Nelson Park in Hastings, with Mayor Lawrence Yule confirming the $18.6 million payment from Charter Hall was received yesterday.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council is holding a byelection for the role of councillor for the Mohaka Ward.

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HASTINGS — The new athletics track at Percival Road in Hastings is now complete and ready for use ahead of schedule and under budget, after eight months of construction work.

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HASTINGS — Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule has spoken fondly of Mohaka Councillor Deborah Turner, who passed away at Cranford Hospice yesterday surrounded by her family.

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HASTINGS — One Yugoslavian, one Fijian and five Zimbabwean are among the next thirty-four candidates to be given New Zealand citizenship.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council will increase its charges at two refuse transfer stations from 1 July.

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HAVELOCK NORTH — Complaints about the nuisance and health effects of smoky fires led Hastings District Council Environmental Health and Fire Bylaw Officers to extinguish 27 outdoor fires around the Havelock North area yesterday.

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HASTINGS — The Camberley community will receive its long awaited community centre when a Baptist hall from Havelock North is moved across the city to Kirkpatrick Park in Camberley.

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HASTINGS — People living and working in Flaxmere are being encouraged to share their thoughts on a proposal to improve the layout and landscaping of Len Harlen Park, situated between Flaxmere Avenue and Peary Crescent.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council has extended the deadline for submissions on the proposed Regional Sports Park to give the public more time to share their views on the proposal with the Council.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council held a public open day at the new athletics track on Percival Road on Saturday.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council is participating in a hui a hapu to discuss Plan Change 38 .

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council has begun the process of consulting public on the Regional Sports Park proposal.

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HASTINGS — A Flaxmere company caught three times selling liquor to underage purchasers has had two of its managers liquor certificates suspended by the Liquor Licensing Authority, but the company will be allowed to continue operating a bottle store despite objections from Hastings District Council, Police and Flaxmere community representatives.

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HASTINGS — A large sculpture made from found objects has appeared outside the Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre thanks to local artist Ricks Terstappen and the Creative Hawkes Bay Art Invitational.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District residents will have noticed a significant increase in works being carried out on civic trees, in the past two months.

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HASTINGS — The mammoth task of removing 53,000 cubic metres of earth from the bund at Nelson Park will begin on Monday 21 April.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council voted today to go ahead with the consultation around the Regional Sports Park proposal.

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HASTINGS — The Heretaunga Street East 200 and 300 blocks are soon to receive a makeover as part of a scheduled street upgrade.

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HASTINGS — Residents of Maraetotara now have extra help nearby in the event of a fire, with the commissioning of a new fire appliance for the Maraetotara Volunteer Rural Fire Force.

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HAWKE'S BAY — Fees at the Omarunui Landfill are set to increase from 1 July 2008.

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HASTINGS — Napier City Council and Hastings District Council, in conjunction with the NZ Fire Service, has reduced the total fire ban in the district to a restricted fire season.

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HAWKE'S BAY — A report prepared for Napier City Council, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and Hastings District Council backs the establishment of a regional sports park in Hawke’s Bay and makes valuable suggestions for ways the park proposal can be enhanced.

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HAWKE'S BAY — The New Zealand Fire Service, Napier City Council and Hastings District Council are asking for patience during the coming Easter holiday break, as a total fire ban remains in place over Napier and Hastings City and rural fire areas. 

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council has released an economic impact report on the Regional Sports Park showing the Park’s development stage will generate additional new economic activity in the Hawke's Bay region of $43 million with a total employment impact of 589. 

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council is hosting a forum to discuss practical steps to address sustainable development issues in the district.  The forum is being held on Saturday 29 March 2008 at the Hawke’s Bay Opera House.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council has received over two hundred submissions on the proposed Hill Country Corporation private plan change for Ocean Beach and although the deadline has passed more are arriving each day.  Two hundred and five submissions had been received by the deadline of 29 Feb.

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HASTINGS — An extraordinary Council Meeting is being held this afternoon in the Hastings District Council Chamber to discuss the Council joining with other Hawke’s Bay Territorial Authorities and the Regional Council to seek legal advice on the decision to dismiss the Hawke’s Bay Health Board. 

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HAWKE'S BAY — Outdoor fires are to be banned until further notice from 5pm on Friday 29 February, as Hastings and Napier move to a total fire ban.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council today voted unanimously on its preferred ownership and governance structure for the Regional Sports Park.  The sports park will be built, owned and managed by a charitable trust, with the Council retaining ownership of the land.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council today voted to prepare a submission on Hill Country Pastoral’s Ocean Beach private plan change.

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HASTINGS — Riders in this year’s Mayoral Challenge family bike ride will be led in ‘tandem’ by Mayor Lawrence Yule and Hastings District Council’s new Chief Executive Ross McLeod. 

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HASTINGS — Hastings district may face a total fire ban before the end of summer, as weather forecasts promise little significant rain for the area.

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HASTINGS — At least seventeen different cultures will be represented at this year’s Hawke’s Bay International Cultures Day.  The event, which is in its tenth year, takes place on Saturday 8 March at Cornwall Park in Hastings.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council and RoadSafe Hawke’s Bay are encouraging Hastings people to get behind their mayor, Lawrence Yule, and ride their bikes in the 2008 Mayoral Challenge. 

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HASTINGS — An extra long Hastings District Council community forum in mid-February will provide attendees with knowledge as well as practical skills to help them raise funds for their charity or community groups. 

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council has appointed a new Environmental Enhancement Officer to help cut down and clean up graffiti vandalism in the area, but the new appointee warns that graffiti is a community issue which requires community based solutions. 

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HAWKE'S BAY — Hastings and Napier Rural Fire Authorities and the New Zealand Fire Service have reviewed the fire danger conditions in the region and have decided to retain the current fire restrictions until further notice. 

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HASTINGS — Consultation on the Omahu Road corridor upgrade has been completed and the detailed design for Stage 1 is scheduled to be completed by February 2008.

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HASTINGS — The public will have an opportunity to present their thoughts by way of a submission on the Ocean Beach private plan change applied for by Hill Country Pastoral Ltd.

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HASTINGS — Hastings District Council today announced the appointment of Ross McLeod to the role of Chief Executive.

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