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Disclaimer

Whangarei District Council has made every reasonable effort to provide accurate and reliable information on this website.

However, visitors to this site are advised that Whangarei District Council does not warrant the accuracy of this information and does not accept responsibility or liability for any action taken as a result of the use of part or all of this website, its content or any linked sites.

The use of any information is at the website visitor’s own risk and discretion and should not be treated as advice from Whangarei District Council.

A number of links to external websites have been included throughout this site to provide supporting and additional information.

While these external links have been selected with due care, Council is not affiliated with any person or goods and services mentioned in them, neither does it necessarily endorse, approve or sponsor these goods or services and any content or views expressed.

Whangarei District Council does not accept any responsibility for the content or operation of any external site.

Copyright

This website and all information, images and photographs on it are owned by Whangarei District Council and are subject to copyright and other proprietary rights.

Website visitors may reproduce, store and use the content of this website for personal, informational and non-commercial purposes only.

Except, as stated in the paragraph above, no portion of the content of the website, or the council logo, may be copied or republished without the prior written permission of Whangarei District Council.

All rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved to Whangarei District Council.

Enquiries

Enquiries should be addressed to the Communications Manager and sent to:

Whangarei District Council
Private Bag 9023
Te Mai
Whangārei 0143

Phone: 09 430 4200

Email: mailroom@wdc.govt.nz

Externally sourced material is subject to copyright by the respective provider and is linked from within Whangarei District Council’s websites where applicable to those respective providers.

Any links from external websites to pages within Whangarei District Council’s websites must clearly state that they are links to Whangarei District Council’s website.

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Temporary road closure application closedown period

The closedown period for processing of temporary road closure applications is from 19 December 2024 to 6 January 2025. These applications generally need to be submitted a minimum of three months before the proposed date, so please keep this and our closedown period in mind when planning your temporary road closure.

Temporary Closure

Event on Council land permit closedown period

The closedown period for processing of event on Council land applications is from 19 December 2024 to 6 January 2025. These applications generally take a minimum of four weeks to process (depending on the size of the event), so please keep this and our closedown period in mind when planning your event on council land.

Temporary Closure

Free car parking offer

The rooftop of the Central City Car Park Building (vehicle-access from John Street) will have free parking for up to 3 hours from Saturday 7 December until New Year's Eve, 31 December 2024.

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Botanica Whangārei temporarily closed

Botanica Whangārei is temporarily closed for health and safety reasons. We are planning to reopen soon.

Temporary Closure

Investigating options for rating system

We are currently reviewing how rates are calculated to ensure they are still set in the fairest and most equitable way. If changes are proposed, we will seek community input through public consultation early next year. These changes will not impact the total amount of rates we collect, instead they will affect how we work out everyone’s share.

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Huitau Pā walkway partial closure

Part of Huitau Pa walkway is closed due to significant erosion. You can still access the track from the parking area, however please do not walk along the cliff and make sure you stay well away from the edge as it is unsafe. Signage is in place.

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The Waipū Activity Zone playground is temporarily closed

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Land Information Memorandum (LIM) applications closedown period

The closedown period for LIM applications is from 20 December 2024 to 10 January 2025. Any LIM application received during this time will be deemed as received on 11 January 2025. The last date to apply and pay to receive your LIM before Christmas will be Monday 9 December 2024.

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RMA and Building Act applications closedown period

Please allow for extra days that statutory holidays can add to processing times for applications. Get your applications in on time to avoid disappointment. The closedown period for processing Resource Management Act and Building Act applications is from 20 December 2024 to 10 January 2025, inclusive.

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Summer alcohol licence deadline: Thursday 21 November 2024

The statutory closedown period for processing alcohol licence applications is from 20 December 2024 to 15 January 2025.

To ensure your alcohol licence applications are received and processed before the closedown, we must receive them by Thursday 21 November 2024.

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Official Information Act requests closedown period

Please allow for extra days that statutory holidays can add to processing times for requests. The closedown period for processing Official Information Act requests is from 20 December 2024 to 10 January 2025.

Temporary Closure

Christmas rubbish and recycling collections

There will be no kerbside rubbish and recycling collections on Wednesday 25 December 2024.

Collections that normally occur on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Christmas week will be delayed by one day. If your rubbish is normally collected on Wednesday, it will be collected on Thursday and so on for the rest of the week.

The normal collection schedule will resume on Monday 30 December 2024.

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Financial services over summer break

Our offices close at 4:00pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and reopen on Monday 6 January 2025. Please read information about our finance, rates and revenue services over the summer holidays, including deadlines for customer requests and enquiries, and dates for processing these.

Financial services over summer break

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Flush water from taps in the mornings

The Ministry of Health recommends flushing a mugful of water from drinking-water taps each morning to remove any metals that may have dissolved from the plumbing fittings.
Although the health risk is small, this simple precaution is one all households on public and private water supplies should take.
For more information please call a Health NZ Drinking Water Assessor on 09 430 4100.

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