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Whakamarama

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Whakamarama. This is what you told us matters most to your community.

These are the top priorities for the whole of the Western Bay District.

Road Safety and Public Transport

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Planning for natural hazards and severe weather events.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Building a strong and thriving economy.

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Natural Environment

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WASTE MINIMISATION

Providing the right services and infrastructure for reducing waste.

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SPEED MANAGEMENT

Creating a speed management plan for our local roads.

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Community Facilities

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TRANSPORTATION

How our roads, cycleways and walkways can be improved.

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REPRESENTATION

Ensuring your community is effectively represented.

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Rural Internet

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Road Safety and Public Transport

What are the next steps?

Your feedback has helped shape the review of Council’s Transportation Activity Plan as part of the development of the Long Term Plan 2024-34 which is scheduled for adoption in 2024.

At the same time, it’s also helping shape the procurement approach for renewal of our roading contract in 2024/25, where we are looking to work closer with local suppliers and businesses to deliver high-quality roading services that meet the needs and expectations of the community.

While Council does not provide public transport directly, this feedback is being provided to Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council who lead this.

Natural Environment

What are the next steps?

Your feedback has helped shape the planning and potential funding of an environmental coordinator. If this role is confirmed, through the Long Term Plan 2024-34 process, it will primarily be about growing capacity and capability of locals to take care of their spaces in Ōmokoroa and Whakamarama. Council would look to work alongside existing groups to add value and support where they most need it.

Community Facilities

What are the next steps?

Your feedback will be used to help shape the planning around Council’s approach to community facilities as part the Long-Term Plan 2024-34 kōrero.

Rural Internet

What are the next steps?

Council doesn’t own or provide fibre or internet services, but we will use your feedback to keep advocating with providers of these services to ensure the community views are known and considered.

Climate Change

What are the next steps?

Your feedback will help set out the next steps for Council’s Climate Change Action Plan. This work in ongoing and includes gaining a better understanding of what our risks are to help inform our future actions.

Economic Development

What are the next steps?

Your feedback has helped shape the review of Council’s Economic Development Activity Plan as part of the development of the Long Term Plan 2024-34 which is scheduled for adoption in 2024.

Waste Minimisation

What are the next steps?

Your feedback has helped shape the development of Council’s Waste Management and Minimisation Plan which will be adopted in 2024.

This refreshed plan is built on the great mahi we’ve collectively done and also what we’ve heard from you. We want to build on our successful programmes such as our kerbside service, mobile recycling trailers and waste education, and make it easier for our community to do even more.

Speed Management

What are the next steps?

Your feedback has helped shape the development of Council’s Speed Management Plan which will be adopted in 2024.

Our proposed approach is for a 50kph speed limit in urban areas and 80kph speed limit within rural areas, with exceptions including schools, Marae, town centres and community identified areas.

To achieve the best safety outcomes for the local community we’ll be prioritising areas with the highest need first. The priorities identified for the first three years of the Speed Management Plan are:

  • Schools
  • Marae (and associated community hubs)
  • Other high-risk and high benefit areas (e.g., places with a high concentration of people like town centres)
  • Areas identified by the community as important (e.g., particular roads or areas where there is local community support for a speed limit reduction).

Transportation

What are the next steps?

Your feedback has helped shape the review of Council’s Transportation Activity Plan as part of the development of the Long Term Plan 2024-34 which is scheduled for adoption in 2024.

At the same time, it’s also helping shape the procurement approach for renewal of our roading contract in 2024/25, where we are looking to work closer with local suppliers and businesses to deliver high-quality roading services that meet the needs and expectations of the community.

Representation

What are the next steps?

Your feedback will help shape our representation review process which is scheduled to begin in early 2024.

As a result of Council establishing a Maori ward earlier this year – this process will consider the number of wards, and number of councillors and community boards, with a chance for community feedback before July 2024.

Community Road Safety and Public Transport
Community Natural Environment
Community Community Facilities
Community Rural Internet
Council Climate Change
Council Economic Development
Council Waste Minimisation
Council Speed Management
Council Transportation
Council Representation

Whakamarama is located in the foothills of the Kaimai Range, between the sanctuary of the ngahere (forest) and the bounty of the moana.

The name Whakamarama is borrowed from an ancient kāinga which once stood at the edge of the forest, at the heart of the rohe of Te Pirirākau.

Te Pirirākau align with Ngāti Ranginui iwi, descended from the Takitimu migration, though they share a longstanding connection with hapū of Tainui descent, which the Whakamarama area has importance to. The nearby gunfighter pā and adjacent marae of Tawhitinui embody this connection.

Whakamarama has a rural character with a mix of hilly and flat land utilised mainly for grazing and orchards.