Nelson City Council

Nelson City At Large
The Nelson City Council provides local services and facilities, such as public transport, rubbish and recycling, libraries, parks, and recreation facilities. It also passes local regulations and makes decisions about infrastructure, such as water supply and sewerage, and about the region’s resources, including water, soil and the coastline. The council is made up of 12 councillors and the mayor. This election is for the three councillors elected by all voters in the city. The other councillors will be elected to represent wards (areas in the city.) This is a single transferable vote (STV) election, so you vote by ranking the candidates on your ballot paper. Compare the candidates and their policies to decide who to vote for in the Nelson City Council election.

Environment and biodiversity

Protecting the environment and managing natural resources is a key responsibility of regional councils. Regional councils are often also involved in pest control and resource management.

Environment and biodiversity

Protecting the environment and managing natural resources is a key responsibility of regional councils. Regional councils are often also involved in pest control and resource management.

  • Transition council's under-performing clear-fell forestry in our public reserves and water catchments to permanent native forests.

    Restore Tasman Bay health, extend marine protected areas, end trawling in the bay, act to reduce sedimentation and other pollutants.

    Support reduction of pest plants, browsing animals and predators, to enable native flora and fauna to thrive. Control cats to reduce ferals.

  • Make enforcement and compliance as simple and effective as possible.

    Support businesses in contributing more effectively to waste management.

  • Protecting existing native forests in our reserves.

    Improve our pest control to protect our native flora and fauna.

    Reducing forestry sediments in our rivers.

  • Remove old man's beard and other climbing weeds that are strangling our established native tree canopies on our reserves.

    Enable our experienced hunters back into our back country reserves for goat and pig culling where practical.

    Do more to protect our coastal and marine environment, which has been overlooked.

  • Enhance public education and programme on the importance of biodiversity, including making it part of curriculum in schools.

    Review services, and programmes to date and public consultation on what has been working to date and not working.

    Employ strict and timely enforcement if compliance not followed.

  • Turn the city's steeper hillsides into wildlife corridors and minimise soil instability with indigenous plantings.

    Partner with the Department of Conservation, Sanctuary and community trapping initiative to optimise a coordinated response.

  • Support use of compost from waste collection initiatives in home and community gardens.

    Work with local initiatives such as the QEII trust to protect indigenous biodiversity.

    Develop strategies to encourage shops not to dump organic waste.

  • Transition council's commercial pine forestry into native bush, providing carbon sequestration, greater biodiversity and resilience.

    Adopt a catchment-wide approach to ecological regeneration, utilising halo effects to better connect residents with our native bird life.

    Increase council support for biodiversity improvements and pest management of invasive flora and fauna, and support for the Brook Sanctuary.

  • Transition council's under-performing clear-fell forestry in our public reserves and water catchments to permanent native forests.

    Restore Tasman Bay health, extend marine protected areas, end trawling in the bay, act to reduce sedimentation and other pollutants.

    Support reduction of pest plants, browsing animals and predators, to enable native flora and fauna to thrive. Control cats to reduce ferals.

  • Make enforcement and compliance as simple and effective as possible.

    Support businesses in contributing more effectively to waste management.

  • Protecting existing native forests in our reserves.

    Improve our pest control to protect our native flora and fauna.

    Reducing forestry sediments in our rivers.

  • Remove old man's beard and other climbing weeds that are strangling our established native tree canopies on our reserves.

    Enable our experienced hunters back into our back country reserves for goat and pig culling where practical.

    Do more to protect our coastal and marine environment, which has been overlooked.

  • Enhance public education and programme on the importance of biodiversity, including making it part of curriculum in schools.

    Review services, and programmes to date and public consultation on what has been working to date and not working.

    Employ strict and timely enforcement if compliance not followed.

  • Turn the city's steeper hillsides into wildlife corridors and minimise soil instability with indigenous plantings.

    Partner with the Department of Conservation, Sanctuary and community trapping initiative to optimise a coordinated response.

  • Support use of compost from waste collection initiatives in home and community gardens.

    Work with local initiatives such as the QEII trust to protect indigenous biodiversity.

    Develop strategies to encourage shops not to dump organic waste.

  • Transition council's commercial pine forestry into native bush, providing carbon sequestration, greater biodiversity and resilience.

    Adopt a catchment-wide approach to ecological regeneration, utilising halo effects to better connect residents with our native bird life.

    Increase council support for biodiversity improvements and pest management of invasive flora and fauna, and support for the Brook Sanctuary.