Waipā councillors have reluctantly adopted changes to the District Plan which will introduce medium-density residential housing rules across the district. The plan change adopted on Monday allows for two houses, up to three stories high…
Waipā councillors have reluctantly adopted changes to the District Plan which will introduce medium-density residential housing rules across the district. The plan change adopted on Monday allows for two houses, up to three stories high…
A project between Waipā council and disability provider Enrich Plus which taught clients how to make their own low-cost, low-waste household cleaning products using repurposed packaging, has been a success. The community partnership provided great…
Para Kore, a leading not for profit kaupapa Māori organisation specialising in zero waste education has signed a three-year deal with Waipā District council to deliver “world without waste” programmes. Based in Raglan, Para Kore…
Trevor Sills should be dead or dying. But his late father saved his life. Losing his father, Bernard, to prostate cancer 20 years ago prompted the Cambridge coffee cart proprietor to have an annual Prostate…
Waipā residents’ perception of the council is up three per cent on last year but still lower than previous years. Twenty-two per cent of the 485 residents surveyed said they were satisfied with the council’s…
Waipā District Council has forced the sale of a Cambridge property owned by a person who had not paid any rates since September 2016. Council is owed nearly $32,000 and took a rating sale by…
Steampunkers and their fans filled the Cambridge Town Hall on Saturday, clattering and swishing their way around a full programme of family activities. The event was the fourth to be arranged by the Cambridge-based InterlockNZ…
Goodbye cones, well some of them. Waipā District Council has been working with contractors to trial using fewer cones for recent watermain work in Cambridge, Human Resources Operations manager Clark Collins told the Finance and…
Dean Signal reckoned he was in something of a unique position, career-wise. “I have hundreds of people underneath me, but I never receive a complaint,” he’d often say. As sexton for Cambridge’s three cemeteries, he…
Business leaders and the heavy traffic industry say Waipā District Council’s lack of consultation with them over major arterial route changes is concerning. Their comments come after the council released an independent post construction audit…
