Long-term Brainstorm
The Long-term Brainstorm has concluded. Thank you for your ideas.
Here at Council, staff and your elected representatives are turning our thoughts to our long-term planning cycle in preparation for the Long-term Plan 2024-2034 and we want YOU involved.
We’d love you to share ideas for what we need to think about for your town, district or community.
We know times are tough right now. That’s putting the squeeze on a lot of grand plans and having us focus more on core services. We still believe this is an opportunity for you to flag with us what you’d like to see in the mix of things we consider for the next 10 years and beyond.
It could be a little idea that would have a big impact, or something bigger you think needs to be on our radar and given consideration or explored further. It could be a project that needs financial support to happen, or maybe you need council’s backing for an initiative in some other non-financial way.
We want to start these long-term conversations with our community now to ensure the community voice feeds into our planning process early on.
If you have an idea, share it below. You can include a photo, and like or comment on someone else’s post, but please be respectful of others. Your comments will appear publicly to provide inspiration and interest for others and encourage the wider community to engage.
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Idea submitted by Kristina Wills - Park for families to enjoy in Ranfurly
Please can we have a really lovely park for all families to enjoy down at the old skating rink area (by Maniototo Stadium). For families without children there aren't many park facilities to use without being creepy looking! Dog friendly - on a leash please.
about 1 month ago
Food truck area on south side of super liquor
Install some decorative gravel or paving, a couple of rubbish bins and seating, and some power sites for food trucks, and have a designated area for food trucks or caravans to park up. Perfect spot behind super liquor in Cromwell, on the large piece of unused land. Food dealers can lease a site and have potential long term leases.
about 1 month ago
Full size hockey turf in Alexandra to fill the need this side of the gorge. It will be an awesome facility for all ages and reduce travel.
about 1 month ago
Lowburn Lakeside
Is there a way that Council can introduce some control to the Lowburn Lakeside Area that is majority used by Campers, Boaties and Water Park users? Sure it's LINZ Land, but the brunt of any problems with this area are largely borne by locals, which would place CODC as somewhat the logical authority to manage the issue. Assuming we cant or wont restrict the campers, some plantings and fences, another toilet block and in particular a designated camping area to the north may prevent the spread of campers to the south end where they commandeer the pontoons and associated landing area which is probably best reserved for boaties. Some structured boat parking nearer the pontoon with a fence defining the desired land use would be ideal. Theres at least 3Ha of land and 500m of lakefront in that area (depending how you look at it) that can be used a lot better. If CODC could work with LINZ to bring some order to this area would be great! Maybe a license to occupy for the purposes of boat trailer parking (and hence not camping) could be the order??
about 1 month ago
Good Governance for Health and Wellbeing
Local government has an extraordinary opportunity to influence health and wellbeing by committing to good governance for health, as most of the health determinants are situated outside of the health care system. Some of the WHO (2016) recommendations for healthy cities includes: -Work to deliver basic needs of all residents (education, housing, employment and security). -Take measures to eliminate air, water and soil pollution in the district and tackle climate change at the local level by making our industries and cities green and ensure clean energy and air. -Invest in children, prioritize early child development and ensure that district policies and programmes in health, education and social services leave no child behind. -Make environments safe for women and girls, especially protecting them from harassment and gender-based violence. -Improve the health of the urban poor, migrants and refugees and ensure their access to affordable housing and health care. -Address multiple forms of discrimination against people living with disabilities, older people, and other vulnerable groups. -Make our district safe from infectious disease through ensuring immunization, clean water, sanitation, waste management and vector control. Increase health literacy. -Design our cities to promote sustainable urban mobility, walking and physical activity through attractive and green neighbourhoods, active transport infrastructure, strong road safety laws, and accessible play and leisure facilities. -Implement sustainable and safe food policies/programmes that increase access to affordable healthy food and safe water (i.e., community gardens). -Reduce the harmful use of alcohol including through regulation, pricing, education and taxation. -Make environments smoke free and ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. Another idea would be to consider Health in all policies (HiAP). HiAP is an approach to public policies that consider the health implications of decisions taken across sectors (i.e., not only the health sector). It avoids harmful impacts in order to improve population health and health equity. Local government does not necessarily need to secure financial resources to have a HiAP approach; it only needs to consider the health and wellbeing of its citizen in all future policy development. Please contact me if you need support. Monica Theriault, Health Promotion Advisor Te Whatu Ora