Council

Bureta Park hearing this week

A proposal to redevelop the Bureta Park Motor Inn site will be considered by a Tauranga City Council hearings panel on Thursday. The application by Perry Property... Read More

Street naming made easy

Developers will be given an expanded repertoire of street names to choose from when the Tauranga City Council's new naming of streets, reserves and council facilities... Read More

Memorial Park fountain upgrade

The Memorial Park fountain has been upgraded with a new, more efficient lighting system. The old system, which was installed with the fountain in the 1960s, was... Read More

Pipeline slam dunked

Hayden Evans says he's 'slam dunked” Tauranga City Council attempts to forcibly take a pipeline across his land. On Thursday, he showed a hearings subcommittee... Read More

Council defends smoking ban

Western Bay of Plenty District Council staff are defending their latest policy which bans smoking in designated public areas in the region such as beaches. The... Read More

Ghosts of boroughs past

Twenty years ago on October 31 1989, the borough of Mount Maunganui was snuffed out by government decree. The survivors of that administration, former politicians... Read More

Locked doors for Hayden hearing

Tauranga City Councillor Hayden Evans' ongoing fight over a pipeline easement with city hall continues behind locked doors in the Kaimai Room today. The hearing... Read More

TCC bows to tree petition

A counter petition on a Tauranga City Council decision to thin Te Ngaio Road's pohutukawa has seen the city council change its approach. The first petition was... Read More

Strand walkway trial

Councillors took the cheaper of two options when presented on Tuesday with walkway choices for herding pedestrians around The Strand's bars at night. The council... Read More

Six tenders for TISEC

Six construction companies are bidding for the contract to build the new multi-million dollar Indoor Sport and Exhibition Centre at Baypark. Tauranga City Council's... Read More

Preliminary work on TISEC begins

McPherson Contractors Limited has started construction of a metalled loop road that will carry construction traffic for the Tauranga Indoor Sports and Exhibition... Read More

Bethlehem gas station appeal

A petrol station proposal for Bethlehem is being appealed after it was knocked back by the Tauranga City Council. Greenwater Investments Ltd wants to build a service... Read More