Policies

Commit to improving Gisborne's waste management and minimisation through establishing a recycling centre and rubbish sorting site.

Integrate biodiversity considerations into land management and promote cooperative and collective approaches to pest management strategies.

Lobby central government to increase fines to completely discourage fly dumping and other polluting behaviour.

Ensure that economic development and commercial activities support the regeneration and growth of the environment.

Ensure that the need to act to prevent ongoing biodiversity loss and secure a viable future is widely understood.

Introduce green waste bins and collaborate with Tairāwhiti Environment Centre.

Establish a planting bond for forestry held in trust until five years after harvest, ensuring that funds are available to mitigate impacts.

Establish a policy where parks and reserves plant and enhance areas with native mahinga kai species rather than introduced exotics.

Incrementally increase the natural heritage fund to $400,000 per annum by 2030 giving landowners the tools to protect the region's biodiversity.

Establish a local facility to deal with waste, not trucking it out to become someone else's problem.

Facilitate the establishment of a wild game processing facility, creating employment and protecting native fauna.

Commit to no further biodiversity loss due to the wider ecosystem implications.

Establish a major resource re-use hub akin to Wastebusters in Central Otago.

Examine how consenting conditions can limit slash ruining our beaches and not leave council so liable when it does.

Ensure no tolerance for excessive vehicle noise.

Incentivise residential rainwater catchment tanks.

Plant more trees in and around Gisborne City and townships.

Apply practical approach to consenting activities required to transition erosion-prone land to permanent vegetation protection.

Cull pest species such as deer, goats, pigs, possums and rats from surrounding areas where native conversion is planned urgently.

Support fully the Transition Advisory Group in preparing business case and delivery plan for land use change, then seeking funding.