Policies

Support Restore Hibiscus and Bays to extend their pest control and stream restoration planting programs, with more volunteer groups involved.

Waste minimisation and management. Enhance our existing food waste collection service to include more schools and retailers.

Continue to support programs that educate primary students of the importance of water within our ecosystems and the need to conserve it.

Fund greater monitoring of sedimentation controls on building sites in our area, to protect our waterways and marine reserve from runoff.

Subsidise wastewater checks to ensure compliance of onsite wastewater systems.

Lobby to ban set-netting at our busy local beaches – it's an indiscriminate fishing practice on the edge of our only urban marine reserve.

Advocate for educational events to be run to educate local construction companies on correct use of sediment equipment.

Protect our green spaces for future generations to enjoy the coastal lifestyle we all love.

Continue to support our environmental groups who carry out restoration work and educate our community.

Continue support of the wonderful local community run environmental restoration groups with additional regional funding.

Increase the number of enforcement officers with a focus on proactive compliance engagement instead of reactive enforcement.

Raise the frequency of sedimentation testing at beaches and marine reserves with strict enforcement on developers who breach obligations.

Provide funding or grants to extend our Enviroschool programmes, ie Whitebait Connection.

Continue to promote more stringent enforcement of our Unitary Plan and bylaws to control sedimentation on building sites, ie Red Beach trial.

Identify and support reuse of construction and demolition materials and e-waste and develop the new Recovery Centre planned for our area.

Listen to you about what council should do about environmental protection. To hear you, I'll hold online and in-person sessions at local venues

Represent your views about the environment at council, so that you are heard and included.

Keep you informed about what council is doing about the environment, so that you feel involved in the process and can hold council accountable

Council must work on upgrading stormwater systems so wastewater does not get into our streams and beaches.

The rivers and streams must be audited to find the cause of pollution and action taken.

All parks tracks must be opened up so people can use them. We can't block off all the public tracks and stop people using them.