Community planning is about obtaining local peoples' views on the place that they call home. It involves celebrating the things that make their community special and creating a vision of what the community would like for the future. From this vision, the community can identify actions to be carried out to achieve this vision. The plans also help Council, government departments, businesses, visitors, new people to the area and individuals living in the area, to understand the direction that community would like to go in the future.
So far fourteen communities have developed their own community plan. These communities are listed below. Click on the community to view a brief summary of the key points their communities are focusing on. At the bottom of each summary is a link to the actual Community Plan document.
• Ophir September 2015
• Omakau December 2014
• Oturehua
July 2014
• Cromwell
January 2013
• Waipiata
April 2008
• Tarras
August 2007
• Patearoa and Upper Taieri
April 2007
• Maniototo
February 2007
• Alexandra
May 2013
• Naseby
June 2016
• Roxburgh and Teviot Valley
December 2011
• St Bathans
May 2006
• Clyde
March 2011
• Pisa August 2009
(Dates refer to when the plans became operative)
Community plans deal with the recommended actions at a pace set by each respective Community Plan working group. This has resulted in the plans proceeding at different speeds and groups working on different numbers of actions, with some groups focusing on three actions at a time whilst others focus on ten or more.
The success of Community Plans is apparent from the many achievements for the various community plan groups. Examples include:
• Development of the Roxburgh Gorge Track
• A new promotions brochure for Alexandra
• A new walking track around the Blue Lake at St Bathans
• Repainting the toilets at the swimming dam at Naseby
• Upgrading the cemetery at Naseby
• A new town brochure for Waipiata
• Exploring walkway options in Patearoa
• Lobbying for an underpass at Clyde to link the town with the Rail Trail
• Road widening of the State Highway at the Clyde entranceways to promote better traffic safety
• Completion of a prefeasibility study and raising funds and initiation of a full feasibility of a water irrigation scheme for Tarras
• Review of the Mall in Cromwell and of the location of the Cromwell Visitor Information Centre.
As actions are completed in the next few years the plans will be reviewed and updated to ensure they remain relevant and reflect the current concerns of the community.