Logging about to start on Muri Road housing development site

• • Announcements, Housing

Logging of the pine plantation is about to start on part of the Muri Road housing development by Pukerua Holdings Limited.

The area is the part of the development that has been zoned as residential for many years and is the area closest to the existing houses in Muri Road. This is the Muri Road Stage 1 development. Porirua City Council has issued a resource consent to Pukerua Holdings for the work and their contractors will begin working there in the next couple of weeks.

It’s anticipated the operation will last about four months.

Here is a letter being distributed by Pukerua Holdings to neighbours over the next few days. Access to the site will be by a temporary entrance at the northwest corner of the site adjacent to 50 Mui Road (marked with an ‘X’ on the map). Logging trucks will be limited to three loaded trucks per day, and the trucks will have a pilot vehicle along Muri Road.

No trucks will run between 7:30am–9:00am and 3:30pm–4:30pm.

Safety

Please stay out of the site if you are used to using it for recreation. Forests are dangerous places during logging.

The Pop-up Parlour opens!

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For five weeks only, Pukerua Bay Hub is running a pop-up community space at St Mark’s, Rawhiti Road

We’re bringing our community together with a range of activities for all ages to meet, share, learn and have fun. The Pop-up Parlour will be running from Friday 16 August until Sunday 22 September.

To find out more and see what’s on check out www.pkbhub.org.nz.

Winter Clean at the Garden

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Join us at a working bee to get stuck in and tidy up the garden. There will be lots of jobs like laying cardboard, shifting mulch, prepping growing beds and weeding around trees.
Time: 10am – noon, Saturday 8 June 2024
Venue: end of Muri Road by former Muri station
There will be a cuppa and baking for everyone.
Feel free to bring gloves and tools. Supervised children are very welcome too.
We look forward to seeing you.

RA submission to Porirua City Council on its 10-year plan

• • Consultation, RA

The Residents Association made the following submission to Porirua City Council on its 10-year plan up to 2023.

The increased costs ratepayers are now expected to pay for necessary work in the city are a direct consequence of the approach of previous councils to keep rate increases as low as possible by not investing in infrastructure. This same error has come back to bite councils across the country, and we hope that has changed the approach PCC will take in the future. We understand this might be unpopular with ratepayers, but there are important intergenerational equity issues in this, and councils cannot continue to ‘kick the can down the road’ for any longer.

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May 2024 Residents’ Association meeting

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All welcome, see minutes from the April 2024 meeting.

When: 14 May 2024, 7.30 pm (ical)
Where: Pukerua Bay RSA, 5 Wairaka Road (map)

Agenda:

1. Welcome & Apologies
2. Council Updates:

GWRC
PCC

3. Escarpment Domes and replanting-Hugh Evans (Floruit)
4. Approval of April minutes
5. Matters arising from previous minutes
6. Financial report
7. Correspondence
8. Action Items
9. Project Updates:

a. Community Garden Food Forest
b. He Ara Pukerua
c. Kōrero
d. Waste Free Pukerua Bay
e. Climate Change

10. General Business:

a. PCC Long Term Plan
b. Shared Pathway repairs

Cyclists on Wairaka Farm

• • Recreation

If any cyclists are planning to cycle on Wairaka Farm at Pukerua Bay (on your left as you go north), please contact the farm manager, Kerry Kilminster, first. He can be contacted on 027 389 9212. Thanks in advance.