Waihoro Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote Community Board

Protect the unique biodiversity of our area, initially through community engagement connected with appropriate resources.

Support existing community groups already doing amazing work with pest control via promotion and resource support.

Focus on developing creative sustainable alternatives for minimising and reusing common waste types from visitors to our area.

Foster community initiatives/collaborations to regenerate environment in the Ōpawaho-Heathcote River Catchment, Port Hills and foreshore.

Advocate for a Port Hills management plan for Red Zoned areas, to bring in line with future decision making alongside the Ōtakaro-Avon plan.

Encourage and reward groups which allow above-and-beyond preservation of council owned land and assets.

Encourage water quality and preservation. However, the Three Waters Policy is fatally flawed. The reform is right but the method is wrong.

Promote agri-environment schemes and pest control policies to support our biodiversity. The principal must be partnership where we all help.

Encourage policies that support recycling and the reduction of plastic packaging. Promote the reduction of landfill. Reuse, recycle, recover

Use recognition of the international migratory flyway status of the estuary to drive greater protection of the birds and of their food.

Implement the new Ōpāwaho Lower Heathcote guidance plan in conjunction with the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River Network Group and others.

Lobby for improvement in our water quality both in rivers and aquifers in the city and wider Canterbury, eg reducing nitrates and sediment.

Rehabilitate and protect waterways.

Increased funding to community groups for waterway restoration work.

Limit the use of fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides.