Lower Hutt City Council
Environment
Local governments play a central role in protecting the environment, reducing waste and safeguarding biodiversity. The worsening state of New Zealand’s lakes and rivers is a major challenge for local councils, which work with regional councils in the management of water resources in their area.
Environment
Local governments play a central role in protecting the environment, reducing waste and safeguarding biodiversity. The worsening state of New Zealand’s lakes and rivers is a major challenge for local councils, which work with regional councils in the management of water resources in their area.
Continue fixing, investing in and upgrading deteriorating underfunded water infrastructure as water is an absolute need for life.
Continue pest control and biodiversity projects with better communication to support community and like-minded groups and make it easy to help.
Create policy to reuse construction and demolition waste to reduce landfill and use smarter efficient machinery to reuse waste into usable material.
Continue work to fix leaking infrastructure to avoid robbing the Hutt River of flow in summer, which causes toxic algae.
Explore cost-neutral ways to re-use food and organic waste, which make up 26% of Silverstream landfill's inflow and are a methane menace.
Work with community groups on environmental protection and pest control, offering some seed funding as ratepayers do not have to pay it all.
Continue fixing and investing in leaking infrastructure.
Create ways to reuse food and organic waste to reduce impact on the landfill.
Work with businesses to reuse demolition and construction waste to reduce impact on landfills.
Agree with community the benchmark for best practice.
Embed the Treaty of Waitangi into all policies and partner in good faith with Māori.
Work with community toward universal values of kaitiakitanga and whanaungatanga for individual self-reliance and collective support for change.
Fund exploration to minimise organic waste in the Hutt.
Make Lower Hutt pest free by 2040.
Make the Waiwhey stream healthy and swimmable by 2035.
Continue fixing, investing in and upgrading deteriorating underfunded water infrastructure as water is an absolute need for life.
Continue pest control and biodiversity projects with better communication to support community and like-minded groups and make it easy to help.
Create policy to reuse construction and demolition waste to reduce landfill and use smarter efficient machinery to reuse waste into usable material.
Continue work to fix leaking infrastructure to avoid robbing the Hutt River of flow in summer, which causes toxic algae.
Explore cost-neutral ways to re-use food and organic waste, which make up 26% of Silverstream landfill's inflow and are a methane menace.
Work with community groups on environmental protection and pest control, offering some seed funding as ratepayers do not have to pay it all.
Continue fixing and investing in leaking infrastructure.
Create ways to reuse food and organic waste to reduce impact on the landfill.
Work with businesses to reuse demolition and construction waste to reduce impact on landfills.
Agree with community the benchmark for best practice.
Embed the Treaty of Waitangi into all policies and partner in good faith with Māori.
Work with community toward universal values of kaitiakitanga and whanaungatanga for individual self-reliance and collective support for change.
Fund exploration to minimise organic waste in the Hutt.
Make Lower Hutt pest free by 2040.
Make the Waiwhey stream healthy and swimmable by 2035.
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