Nelson City Council
Recreation and culture
From parks and libraries to museums and art galleries, councils can be a key supporter of sporting, recreational and cultural events that bring communities to life. Community facilities, including sports grounds and town halls, are often owned and run by councils.
Recreation and culture
From parks and libraries to museums and art galleries, councils can be a key supporter of sporting, recreational and cultural events that bring communities to life. Community facilities, including sports grounds and town halls, are often owned and run by councils.
Deliver a civic hub with library in central Nelson.
Encourage recreational use of council's extensive forests.
Support the construction of a new archive and research facility to protect the region's cultural taonga.
Adopt a maintenance policy on facilities until recovery from the flood costs.
Restrict council funding of festivals by transferring costs to willing community bodies.
Restrict further issuing of liquor licences to replacement only.
Build much-needed and sports community requested all-weather football turf.
Support the overdue and urgently needed regional museum storage facility.
Reassess the performance, outcomes, requirements and expectations of the Arts Festival Trust.
Improve sports venues to attract tournaments and grow participation.
Support local events that celebrate Nelson's arts, culture and community spirit.
Upgrade parks and facilities to support active, healthy lifestyles for all ages.
Promote community wellbeing mentally and physically by supporting enjoyment of sport, festivals, cultural activity and recreation.
Reduce electric energy usage at sporting events and festivals by considering environmentally friendly practices such as timing of use.
Replace the pool, which is over 100 years old, utilising space in the car park area behind Riverside Pool.
Deliver a civic hub with library in central Nelson.
Encourage recreational use of council's extensive forests.
Support the construction of a new archive and research facility to protect the region's cultural taonga.
Adopt a maintenance policy on facilities until recovery from the flood costs.
Restrict council funding of festivals by transferring costs to willing community bodies.
Restrict further issuing of liquor licences to replacement only.
Build much-needed and sports community requested all-weather football turf.
Support the overdue and urgently needed regional museum storage facility.
Reassess the performance, outcomes, requirements and expectations of the Arts Festival Trust.
Improve sports venues to attract tournaments and grow participation.
Support local events that celebrate Nelson's arts, culture and community spirit.
Upgrade parks and facilities to support active, healthy lifestyles for all ages.
Promote community wellbeing mentally and physically by supporting enjoyment of sport, festivals, cultural activity and recreation.
Reduce electric energy usage at sporting events and festivals by considering environmentally friendly practices such as timing of use.
Replace the pool, which is over 100 years old, utilising space in the car park area behind Riverside Pool.
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