Vincent Revell
Property developer, Mapua
Gold mine at Sams Creek
Sams Creek in Golden Bay is considered New Zealand’s largest undeveloped gold project, with previous studies indicating a significant amount of gold. Siren Gold, an Australian mining company, is proposing a gold mine in conservation land, facing opposition from residents and environmental groups. Opponents highlight concerns about potential contamination of the aquifer, impacts on Te […]
Tiny Houses
Tiny house communities can be among the most sustainable forms of rural living with the smallest environmental footprint and strong social bonds, provided that they are truly self-sustainable, in terms of proper sewage treatment, drinking water, electricity, food supply and work on the land. Where they are not self-sustainable, their dispersed settlement patterns can add […]
Three Waters
I am against spending ratepayers’ money on rearranging the deck chairs. The costs of Tasman’s sprawling infrastructure is much higher than those of Nelson’s comparatively compact system. While it would be nice to get somebody else to pay the price for our past mistakes of a failed growth strategy and our ill-conceived Waimea dam funding […]
Nick Dalgety
Strong advocate for artisan business in the Nelson Tasman region
Michael Meissner
Owner / Operator of The Villa in Wakefield
Cost of living
We are now feeling the financial impact of decades of bad decision-making. Rates, rent and the time and cost of commuting to work are a nightmare. They have risen to an unsustainable level and are contributing to a worsening cost of living crisis. The good news is that many of these costs are largely within […]
Housing affordability
Tasman has massive unmet demand for smaller, more affordable homes from our young, elderly and renters. Building yet more 4 bedroom 3 bathroom houses on the city fringe will do nothing to change this – it will only stimulate more wealthy retirees to move here. We need to refocus our development industry to meet our […]
Civic investment
When times are tough, civic investment can give the market confidence to invest. Tasman’s coffers are empty. That means that we have to be strategic about where we invest and which signal this sends to the market. We need financial prudence combined with strategic foresight to return Tasman’s finances onto a healthy footing.
Climate
Changing the way we build our towns and villages will have the single biggest climate impact of any action that TDC can take. Climate action is not only about reducing the Council’s operational emissions. These pale by comparison with our community emissions, the vast majority of which are the result of excessive commuting by car. […]