What's in the Annual Plan 2016/17 for Upper Moutere?
A little extract from the Tasman District Settlement Areas update.
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2015-18 |
2018-24 |
2025-2034 |
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Population |
153 |
163 |
174 |
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Household size |
2.62 |
2.58 |
2.38 |
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Number of dwellings required |
3 |
4 |
10 |
"The Upper Moutere settlement is a relatively small community and the population is expected to increase by only 29 people by 2039."
"Water supply is restricted and is at capacity. Dovedale water pipeline renewals are therefore planned between 2015 and 2022. As a result modest amounts of land were identified for residential growth in the growth model review and no further land was identified for business use as demand does not exist."
In September last year, we hosted members of the Better Broadband Initiative for Mapua, Ruby Coast, Moutere at our AGM.
The initiative has since been collecting registrations of interest of residents who would be keen on either getting better broadband than they currently have, or getting broadband to their property at all. The initiative has been in discussions with Chorus about upgrading infrastructure in some areas, but those discussions have so far not been fruitful (i.e. the price points for getting individual location upgrades were considered far too high).
Meanwhile, what might be a possible alternative for some has brought itself to the foreground in the form of KiwiWifiNZ who provide WiFi-based broadband to residents by installing wireless routers/repeaters on willing residents properties and from these servicing surrounding properties.
Read more: Better Internet for the Moutere - Wireless Options?
The Moutere Hills Residents Association will be holding a public meeting
on Tuesday 5 April from 7:00 pm at the Moutere Inn (Upper Moutere).
This will be a general community meeting and the public is very welcome. Residents are invited to raise any current concerns.
One focus of the meeting will be TDC's Annual Plan 2016/2017 and we will have council representatives there to present and discuss the plan with us.
The Tasman District Council has released key points of its plan for the coming year, which include:
The full Annual Plan 2016/17 is yet to be adopted in Council (this is expected May).
More news around speed limits: Tasman District Council is planning 40km/h zones around some selected schools in the district.
In response to community concerns about the safety of children walking and biking to and from school, the Tasman District Council is proposing to install variable school speed zones for Motupipi, Hope and Ranzau schools.
“We’ve done a lot of work in response to the strong community feeling that more needs to be done to keep children safe on their way to and from school,” Engineering Services Committee chairman Trevor Norriss said. Cr Norriss said the Council will talk to the three schools before installing variable speed zone signs. [...]
“We’ll also discuss the installation of static “40 When Children Present” signs at another four Tasman schools – Brooklyn, Mapua, Lower Moutere and Mahana,” he said.
“Only three of the 10 highest-priority schools meet the New Zealand Transport Authority (NZTA) criteria for a 40kmh variable school speed zone. That is why we’ve opted for static signs around other schools." [...]