Many councils help support local business and economic development. Some promote tourism in their area, or provide business support services and grants.
Many councils help support local business and economic development. Some promote tourism in their area, or provide business support services and grants.
Address the housing shortage through spatial planning to provide more homes for the workers businesses have told us they need.
Establish greater connections with the district's youth to understand their barriers and opportunities, and their desires for their future.
Engage with the business community regularly both formally and informally about the issues that they are facing – listen, do not assume.
Find ways to gain leverage from and investment in Thames as: "a destination", "a gateway", "a market-town" and a "business centre."
Use spatial planning to enable small businesses to operate in mixed-use facilities, having connectivity and walkability in small towns.
Consider how innovative and modular housing communities and infrastructure can be provided for, in new ways that serve modern living better.
Ensure that Thames is seen as a destination and not just a gateway by continuing to support the Rail Trail and other tourist ventures.
Create an environment that can attract employment and families to the peninsula, this is vital to the long-term viability of the region.
Continue to support the Kopu Marine Precinct project to boost employment and opportunities for both skilled people as well as for our youth.
Promote, buy local, beautify Pollen Street with planter boxes between veranda supports to prevent ram raids. Planing traffic flow and parking.
Restore the i-SITE facility to coordinate bookings for all of our tourist attractions as a sustainable service.
Encourage local business apprenticeships and scholarships.
Work with all local businesses through open forum meetings where all concerns are raised, debated and resolved and then acted upon.
Recreate infrastructure that works with forward thinking and experience of a mindset for the benefit of those who will follow ourselves.
Work towards an environment of a willingness and a positiveness, for the employment of those who wish to work, through an education of self!
Address the housing shortage through spatial planning to provide more homes for the workers businesses have told us they need.
Establish greater connections with the district's youth to understand their barriers and opportunities, and their desires for their future.
Engage with the business community regularly both formally and informally about the issues that they are facing – listen, do not assume.
Find ways to gain leverage from and investment in Thames as: "a destination", "a gateway", "a market-town" and a "business centre."
Use spatial planning to enable small businesses to operate in mixed-use facilities, having connectivity and walkability in small towns.
Consider how innovative and modular housing communities and infrastructure can be provided for, in new ways that serve modern living better.
Ensure that Thames is seen as a destination and not just a gateway by continuing to support the Rail Trail and other tourist ventures.
Create an environment that can attract employment and families to the peninsula, this is vital to the long-term viability of the region.
Continue to support the Kopu Marine Precinct project to boost employment and opportunities for both skilled people as well as for our youth.
Promote, buy local, beautify Pollen Street with planter boxes between veranda supports to prevent ram raids. Planing traffic flow and parking.
Restore the i-SITE facility to coordinate bookings for all of our tourist attractions as a sustainable service.
Encourage local business apprenticeships and scholarships.
Work with all local businesses through open forum meetings where all concerns are raised, debated and resolved and then acted upon.
Recreate infrastructure that works with forward thinking and experience of a mindset for the benefit of those who will follow ourselves.
Work towards an environment of a willingness and a positiveness, for the employment of those who wish to work, through an education of self!
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