Upper Harbour Local Board

The Upper Harbour Local Board is one of 21 local boards in Auckland. The local board makes a plan for your area and decides on local issues, activities and facilities. It also oversees council services and facilities in your area, including libraries and parks. The local board is made up of six members. This is a first past the post (FPP) election, so you vote by ticking the name of your preferred candidate on your ballot paper. Compare the candidates and their policies to decide who to vote for in the Upper Harbour Local Board election.

Environment

Local governments play a central role in protecting the environment, reducing waste and safeguarding biodiversity. The worsening state of New Zealand’s lakes and rivers is a major challenge for local councils, which work with regional councils in the management of water resources in their area.

Environment

Local governments play a central role in protecting the environment, reducing waste and safeguarding biodiversity. The worsening state of New Zealand’s lakes and rivers is a major challenge for local councils, which work with regional councils in the management of water resources in their area.

  • Cut waste, reuse more and recycle more by turning rubbish into resources and keeping NZ clean and green during Keep NZ Beautiful clean up week.

    Protect healthy habitats through pest control and biodiversity and protect native species and restore nature's balance.

    Protect water by reducing pollution, restoring ecosystems and ensuring clean access for future generations.

  • Continue supporting environmental community organisations with funding, education and activators to allow volunteers to do what they enjoy.

    Plan the development of neighbourhoods with a long-term lens to ensure biodiversity increases as urban development grows.

    Prioritise the completion of existing programs like the North-West Wildlink, Ngāhere strategy and blue-green networks.

  • Advocate for making the North-West Wildlink a council priority again for Upper Harbour as an excellent ecological corridor.

    Advocate for registration and microchipping of cats, noting that the Upper Harbour Local Board area is home to more than 15,000 cats.

    Expand native planting programmes along streets, in reserves and on stream banks to create green channels for birds and insects.

  • Prioritise action to protect and restore habitats and ecosystems and ensure clean air and water, healthy land, soils, wetlands and coastal areas.

    Support community-based resource recovery, product stewardship and recycling initiatives to educate people and reduce waste to landfill under the Waste Minimisation and Management Plan.

    Support evidence-based community projects to protect, restore and enhance ecological systems, biodiversity, water quality and control pests.

  • Continue to support environmental groups to protect biodiversity through native tree planting, pest control and wildlife habitat creation.

    Continue to support water quality projects, eg restoring streams, wetlands and coastal areas, and reducing sediment and pollution runoff.

    Promote waste minimisation by improving recycling, composting and community education.

  • Build a community recycling centre as the closest to Upper Harbour are too far away. This will reduce waste to landfill.

    Enhance the North West Wildlink to create safe, pest-free, connected and healthy habitats for native wildlife across Upper Harbour.

    Increase funding for community-led biodiversity and pest control. The local board should provide overall strategy and fund hard projects.

  • Continue to support volunteer-led environmental projects across Upper Harbour in Whenuapai, Herald Island, Paremoremo and Hobsonville.

    Continue to support volunteer-led pest eradication initiatives and implementation of the Pest Free Strategy for Upper Harbour.

    Put systems in place to monitor the health of waterways and fund student education programmes to promote early awareness.

  • Cut waste, reuse more and recycle more by turning rubbish into resources and keeping NZ clean and green during Keep NZ Beautiful clean up week.

    Protect healthy habitats through pest control and biodiversity and protect native species and restore nature's balance.

    Protect water by reducing pollution, restoring ecosystems and ensuring clean access for future generations.

  • Continue supporting environmental community organisations with funding, education and activators to allow volunteers to do what they enjoy.

    Plan the development of neighbourhoods with a long-term lens to ensure biodiversity increases as urban development grows.

    Prioritise the completion of existing programs like the North-West Wildlink, Ngāhere strategy and blue-green networks.

  • Advocate for making the North-West Wildlink a council priority again for Upper Harbour as an excellent ecological corridor.

    Advocate for registration and microchipping of cats, noting that the Upper Harbour Local Board area is home to more than 15,000 cats.

    Expand native planting programmes along streets, in reserves and on stream banks to create green channels for birds and insects.

  • Prioritise action to protect and restore habitats and ecosystems and ensure clean air and water, healthy land, soils, wetlands and coastal areas.

    Support community-based resource recovery, product stewardship and recycling initiatives to educate people and reduce waste to landfill under the Waste Minimisation and Management Plan.

    Support evidence-based community projects to protect, restore and enhance ecological systems, biodiversity, water quality and control pests.

  • Continue to support environmental groups to protect biodiversity through native tree planting, pest control and wildlife habitat creation.

    Continue to support water quality projects, eg restoring streams, wetlands and coastal areas, and reducing sediment and pollution runoff.

    Promote waste minimisation by improving recycling, composting and community education.

  • Build a community recycling centre as the closest to Upper Harbour are too far away. This will reduce waste to landfill.

    Enhance the North West Wildlink to create safe, pest-free, connected and healthy habitats for native wildlife across Upper Harbour.

    Increase funding for community-led biodiversity and pest control. The local board should provide overall strategy and fund hard projects.

  • Continue to support volunteer-led environmental projects across Upper Harbour in Whenuapai, Herald Island, Paremoremo and Hobsonville.

    Continue to support volunteer-led pest eradication initiatives and implementation of the Pest Free Strategy for Upper Harbour.

    Put systems in place to monitor the health of waterways and fund student education programmes to promote early awareness.