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Innovating Streets work aims to create sanctuary in inner Hastings The transformation of Heretaunga St East is about to enter a new phase, with work starting on more enhancements to ...
5 May 2021
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Community gathers to launch Camberley Community Plan Building a connected community that has pride in itself, and is supported to thrive is the underlying vision for a ...
5 May 2021
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New pedestrian crossings in Havelock North will improve safety Pedestrian safety and access is set to improve near the Havelock North Village Green where two new raised crossings...
4 May 2021
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Innovating Streets work aims to create sanctuary in inner Hastings
The transformation of Heretaunga St East is about to enter a new phase, with work starting on more enhancements to ...
5 May 2021
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Community gathers to launch Camberley Community Plan
Building a connected community that has pride in itself, and is supported to thrive is the underlying vision for a ...
5 May 2021
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Start-of-the-art drinking water facility for Waimārama
A new drinking water treatment and storage facility in Waimārama was blessed on Wednesday, before water flowed thr...
3 May 2021
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Plans for our parks: second stage starting
The second stage of three Reserve Management Plan processes for Hastings parks is underway.
30 April 2021
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Cheques not accepted from 31 May 2021
Hastings District Council will not be accepting cheques as payment from 31 May 2021.
29 April 2021
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New rock wall will protect vulnerable Haumoana coastline
The building of a rock revetment wall to protect Cape View Corner, Haumoana, from erosion can now get underway with...
28 April 2021
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Community calls for more investment on State Highway 5
While agreeing to slower speed limits on some parts of State Highway 5, at a passionate community meeting last week...
27 April 2021
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Consultation on Māori wards in Hastings district begins tomorrow
Hastings District Council has today agreed to start community engagement on the establishment of Māori wards in ti...
22 April 2021
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Māori standing committee recommends Māori wards for 2022 local elections
Hastings District Council’s Heretaunga Takoto Noa Māori standing committee has today recommended that Council in...
21 April 2021
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Work on Waiaroha starts now
Waiaroha, a key project in Hastings Drinking Water Strategy, has received Resource Consent and construction work wi...
20 April 2021
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Tarbet Street delivers
First-home buyers are taking up the opportunity to get on the property ladder, quickly buying sections at the new T...
20 April 2021
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Huge year for ‘iconic’ Chinese lantern festival
This year’s Lighting of the Osmanthus Gardens has been a roaring success, with an estimated 15,000 taking in the ...
19 April 2021
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Māori standing committee to make recommendation to Council on Māori wards
This week, Hastings District Council’s Heretaunga Takoto Noa Māori standing committee will make a recommendation...
19 April 2021
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From Beijing and New York - to Hastings!
International artist Annie Gong – a one woman orchestra – is due to arrive in Hastings tomorrow, to play at the...
15 April 2021
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Funding agreed for last safe drinking water projects
Hastings District Council has agreed to raise the funds needed to complete the final stages of the Hastings Drinkin...
9 April 2021
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Big City economic development campaign launched at business breakfast
About 230 people attended the inaugural Focus on Business held at Functions on Hastings at the end of last month, w...
9 April 2021
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Water facilities build decisions this week
Hastings District Council will decide on a lead contractor and budget for the district’s two largest and most cri...
7 April 2021
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Temporary bridge closures in April, but Kuripapango open for Easter
Dartmoor, Waipunga and Vicarage Rd Bridges in the Hastings district will be closed for inspections next week for a ...
1 April 2021
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Keirunga Gardens management plan endorsed
After 10 months of community engagement and consultation with key stakeholders, the Keirunga Gardens Reserve Manage...
1 April 2021
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Long Term Plan 2021-2031 consultation begins
Maintaining our essential assets, managing growth, addressing housing needs and continued investment in our communi...
1 April 2021
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Newly minted citizens recognised at ceremony
An extra special Citizenship Ceremony was held at Toitoi – Hawke’s Bay Arts and Events Centre last night to ack...
31 March 2021
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Hoops in Parks coming to a Flaxmere park near you!
A pilot programme to give people more places to shoot hoops in Flaxmere is on a roll, with a new court about to be ...
31 March 2021
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Water technology fascinates kids
There is at least one budding drinking water engineer in the making at Te Pōhue School, after the school’s 28 st...
30 March 2021
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Civic Honours Awards nominations now open
Nominations are now open for Hastings District Council’s 2021 Civic Honours Awards.
30 March 2021
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Youth Council of 2021 keen to make their mark
This year’s Hastings Youth Council is up and running and keen to have their voice heard on anything from the envi...
26 March 2021
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Single year community grant applications open
Hastings District Council’s single year community grants applications opened this week, a chance for local organi...
24 March 2021
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Cornwall Park aviary enclosures to be enhanced
The enclosures at Cornwall Park’s aviary are to be improved with funding approved to enhance the facility for the...
23 March 2021
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Hastings Business Hub opens, events proving popular
A new pilot Business Hawke’s Bay Hastings Business Hub officially opened last week, aimed at helping Hastings bus...
22 March 2021
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Flaxmere housing progress – it’s Flaxmere’s time
Hastings District Council has fast-tracked much-needed housing on council land in Flaxmere, and this week councillo...
19 March 2021
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Consular Services for Republic of Koreans in Napier, Hastings and surrounding areas
Consular Services for Republic of Koreans in Napier, Hastings and surrounding areas will be provided on the followi...
19 March 2021
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Special opening event for revamped Landmarks Square
Close to 50 people gathered at Landmarks Square last Friday night to celebrate the recently completed upgrade of th...
17 March 2021
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Guilin visitor's perfect timing
A visit to the Osmanthus Gardens in Hastings turned out to be perfectly timed for Wellington woman Qian Lihong, ori...
11 March 2021
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Albert Square installation celebrates Park and Sea weeks
More colour, sound and light is coming to Hastings city centre this week with the arrival of Octopoda – a dramati...
11 March 2021
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Jazz duo playing at Landmarks Square re-opening
Wil Sargisson and Margot Pierard, the woman with a “velvet voice as smooth as latte”, will be the first to grac...
10 March 2021
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Keirunga Gardens draft RMP hearings this week
More than 30 submissions to the draft Keirunga Gardens Reserve Management Plan (RMP) will be heard this week, which...
8 March 2021
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Join Hawke’s Bay’s newest retail and hospo precinct
Hastings is humming with activity and nowhere is that more evident than at the CBD’s heritage Municipal Building ...
5 March 2021
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A big year for parks: Have your say on plans
Three Hastings parks are under the microscope this year, and Hastings District Council wants to ensure it gets as m...
5 March 2021
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Pick the Bay expo leads to career opportunity
The two Pick the Bay employment expos held over the past six months attracted hundreds of job seekers, one of whom ...
3 March 2021
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Nominations wanted for Hastings district heritage register
Our district has a rich and diverse history and Hastings District Council is asking the community for its help to i...
26 February 2021
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Setting the course for Hastings in 2050
What will Hastings look like in 2050? That’s the question that was asked at a special two-day workshop held by th...
25 February 2021
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New speed limit signs being installed
New speed limits on about 70 roads around the district will come into effect on March 1, following changes made as ...
23 February 2021
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Sister cities for 40 years: events postponed
The community celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Hastings-Guilin Sister City relationship have been postpo...
22 February 2021
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New regional Māori cultural app Te Kupenga launched today
A new Māori cultural app launched today called Te Kupenga is being described as an exciting step forward for Hawke...
22 February 2021
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Council launches residential intensification design guide
Generating more housing to meet the escalating need at the same time as protecting the district’s productive grow...
18 February 2021
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Good progress on Council’s housing developments in Flaxmere
A Hastings District Council housing development in Tarbet Street, Flaxmere, is nearly complete with more than half ...
17 February 2021
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Building purchased to house regional artefact and taonga collection
Hawke’s Bay’s treasured regional taonga and artefact collection is to be relocated to a new location in the Has...
16 February 2021
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Relatives sought for Women’s Rest building’s 100-year celebration
The Hastings Municipal Women’s Rest building will be turning 100 this year, and celebration organisers are keen t...
16 February 2021
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Hastings City Art Gallery to resume longer opening hours
Hastings City Art Gallery is pleased to announce that it will be returning to seven days a week opening hours for t...
15 February 2021
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Go By Bike offers free breakfasts
Next week the Hastings iWay team will be out each weekday morning handing out healthy breakfasts to anyone cycling ...
12 February 2021
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Get your applications in for Creative Communities funding
Applications for the first of this year’s Creative Communities Scheme funding rounds are now open.
11 February 2021
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Fedoras and feathers flying in Albert Park Hastings for Art Deco Festival 2021
The annual Art Deco Festival launches next week, and this year some exciting new events at a new venue have been ad...
11 February 2021
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Long Term Plan proposals focus on a sustainable future
Hastings District Council today signed off on a working draft of the 2021-2031 draft Long Term Plan that will be ad...
11 February 2021
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New Hastings library mural celebrates Pasifika community
About 80 people gathered at the Hastings War Memorial Library today to unveil and bless a new mural that has been p...
10 February 2021
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Kuripapango Bridge to be closed for strengthening work
Kuripapango Bridge on the Hastings/Taihape Rd is to be closed to daytime traffic on weekdays for three months for s...
10 February 2021
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New strategy strives for sustainable solutions to Hastings’ housing shortage
With one of the highest rates of housing deprivation in New Zealand, the current housing shortage in Hastings is on...
9 February 2021
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Pick the Bay is back
The highly successful Pick the Bay employment expo is returning to Hastings.
9 February 2021
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HDC Essential Services
The change to COVID-19 Alert Level 3 allows some council functions to resume, but it won’t look much different fo...
31 March 2020
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