Upper Hutt City Council

Improve local recycling sites.

Strengthen commitment to clean waterways.

Protect the Hutt River and local streams by reducing stormwater pollution and planting more native trees along riverbanks.

Support community projects that control pests and restore native bush in hills and reserves.

Reduce landfill waste by encouraging better recycling options and supporting food waste composting for households.

Encourage replanting in wasteland to make Upper Hutt greener.

Promote roof-top gardens to use rainwater, cool buildings and reduce runoff.

Support Pest-Free-Upper-Hutt in distributing and using traps to catch and despatch possums and other pests.

Minimise or eliminate water wastage through investing in necessary water infrastructure.

Encourage vermin control to reduce damage to homes and bird populations in reserves caused by rats and mice, which are also unsanitary.

Implement zero tolerance for dumping oil, paint and solvents into storm-water and work with industry to ensure appropriate disposal occurs.

Promote the importance of people in the environment and build roads, buildings and infrastructure to maintain a continued high quality of life.

Require rain harvesting tanks for all new builds to address low river flows in summer which cause toxic algae.

Update the notable tree register to conserve native taonga and continue to support the local pest-free team and Forest and Bird projects.

Increase capacity of the recycling station, introduce a second location for collection and expand the items that can be recycled.

Monitor and improve water quality in rivers, streams and lakes. Ensure clean, safe water for all residents.

Preserve native biodiversity through planting, habitat protection and pest control. Ensure protection of native ecosystems.

Report progress on environmental goals transparently to the community.

Improve water quality by upgrading stormwater systems.

Protect native biodiversity through targeted pest control and habitat restoration efforts.

Reduce landfill waste by expanding recycling and composting services citywide.

Create a building policy to ensure all new builds include water catchment and preservation devices.

Enforce parking issues on footpaths and berms to ensure uncluttered access for the elderly or disabled.

Increase the number of recycling stations throughout Upper Hutt from one to three to encourage residents to participate.

Support more local recycling and composting initiatives, working with communities to keep costs low.

Support predator control and biodiversity projects led by volunteers and iwi.

Ensure the community receives appropriate communication and education on waste minimisation and diversion from landfill.

Ensure focus on repairing leaks in the network to preserve water and prevent loss.

Support community groups like Pest Free to allow the kiwi to further establish in the Upper Hutt hills.

Base all decision-making about Three Waters requiring large sums of ratepayer money on robust and high-quality data.

Grow Upper Hutt’s population without compromising food-producing areas such as the Mangaroa Valley that support the city.

Support the work of Forest and Bird and others in eradicating the pests that cause damage to taonga animal and plant species.

Ensure rural communities get access if rubbish collection is introduced by the council or alternatively do not see rates increase.

Monitor quality of waterways and identify remediation if required, ie infrastructure improvements or isolating cross contamination.

Protect rural valley floor for food production, including agriculture, viticulture and horticulture.

Commit to continuing to support community-led predator free action groups in Upper Hutt like Pest Free.

Commit to reducing pollution at the source through riparian planting along rivers and streams.

Establish recycling capabilities to enable resource recovery that develops an end-of-life product stewardship scheme.

Uphold and embed city vision that states an outstanding natural environment, leisure and recreational opportunities.

Restore the mauri of waterways by incentivising less take while maintaining hydrologic neutrality and use of self-sufficiency at home.

Change languaging in reference to natural environment to be strength based where growth refers to te taiao.