Southland District Council
Welcome to Southland District Council
Southland District is home to some of New Zealand's most spectacular scenery, from the grandeur of Fiordland National Park to the rugged beauty of Stewart Island. Council manages more than 30,979 square kilometres of land, with a resident population of 28,440 (Census 2006). This website will help you find out about Council and the services it provides to the Southland community.
Council defends response timeframes
Tuesday, 23 June 2009Southland District Council believes its resource management response timeframes have improved markedly from the Ministry for the Environment figures released recently. Finance Minister Bill English, who is also the MP for Clutha-Southland, has criticised the Southland Council for its 73rd position in the MfE report. However, Council chief executive David Adamson said the data in the report is between 12 and 23 months old (from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008)...Read more.
District funding of water and sewerage postponed
Thursday, 11 June 2009Southland District Council has postponed a proposal to fund water and sewerage district-wide, rather than by individual communities, for a year. The proposal put up in the Council's draft 10-year plan meant ratepayers on water and sewerage schemes would pay the same across the district for maintenance and renewal costs...Read more.
Councils working together
Tuesday, 2 June 2009Planners from the Southland District Council and Environment Southland are working together on the review of two of the region's most significant planning tools - the Regional Policy Statement and the Southland District Plan. While the two documents have separate purposes, the District Plan has to give effect to provisions in the Regional Policy Statement so they are being reviewed together after each being in use for over 10 years...Read more.
Record number of submissions
Tuesday, 2 June 2009Southland District Council has had a record number of submissions to its draft long-term plan, with 201 received. Council corporate planner Nicole Taylor said 61 of those submitters indicated they wanted to speak to their submission and that was also a record number...Read more.
Revamp for Council website
Tuesday, 2 June 2009The Southland District Council website www.southlanddc.govt.nz[http://www.southlanddc.govt.nz/] has had a makeover. Communications manager Louise Pagan said the revamped site is now live after several months of work...Read more.
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Riverton
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