Your environment - are we on the right track

Last year people told us their concerns and desires for the Wellington region’s environment. Now, as we develop a new regional plan to look after the environment, we want you to tell us if our progress is on track.

We're holding a series of drop-in sessions at the venues below throughout November (see below) and you can also participate in our online survey

Click here to view all the regional plan's issues and goals.

The workshops

Location	Date	Time (anytime between)
Martinborough Town Hall	Tuesday 1 November	3pm – 7.30pm
Masterton Town Hall	Thursday 3 November	3pm – 7.30pm
Silverstream Retreat	Tuesday 8 November	3pm – 7.30pm
Kapiti Community Centre, Paraparaumu	Wednesday 16 November	3pm – 7.30pm
Pataka Museum, Porirua	Thursday 17 November	3pm – 7.30pm
ASB Indoor Sports Centre, Kilbirnie	Monday 21 November	3pm – 7.30pm

What's happened so far?

This year's workshops follow a series of 15 community workshops last year, as well as an online survey and meetings with mana whenua iwi. In the workshops and online survey people shared their concerns over pollution in rivers and streams, coastal erosion, air quality, and the increasing demand for water. Our public engagement report analyses the results of the workshops and online survey and describes how these results relate to the development of a new regional plan.

Your view about our environment: public engagement (2010) for the natural resource regional plan review

Verbatim reports

Earlier in the year we also published verbatim reports of the workshops. Click on one of the links below.

Q & A

Learn more about the process of developing regional plans through our Q & A.

Feedback

We welcome feedback about any aspect of our regional plan review. Email regional-plan@gw.govt.nz.

What's your view - online survey

A total of 851 people participated in the online survey on natural resource management. The online survey asked respondents questions about the state of natural resources in their area and how these could be improved. View the online survey summary report

Monitoring and science

Aside from encouraging, guiding, and strengthening natural resource management in the Wellington Region; Greater Wellington also monitors the state of those resources - soils, waterways, lakes, wetlands, coastline and marine areas, air and biological diversity (including plants, birds, lizards, fish, and insects). On this page you can find out more about what we do and how successful we are in our efforts to manage the environment in a sustainable way.

Regulatory Reporting

Every six weeks we produce the following reports:

Regional Plan Review newsletters

Newsletter no 1 - December 2010