Local Government Magazine

Dates for your Diary Dates for your Diary

Dates for your Diary

2019 October 16 2019 NZ Cyber Security Summit. Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington October 21 – 22 Funding and Rating Forum. Rydges Hotel, Featherston St, Wellington October 22 DHI ENGAGE: Client Care and User Forum, Wellington. BNZ Partners Centre, Wellington October 22 – 23 Building & Construction Law. Crowne Plaza,...
Sir Howard Bernstein - On city deals Infrastructure

Sir Howard Bernstein - On city deals

In the UK and Australia, local bodies are negotiating with central government for bespoke packages of funding and decision-making powers. Sir Howard Bernstein, the architect of Greater Manchester’s ground-breaking 2012 city deal, visited our country recently for Infrastructure New Zealand’s Building Nations Symposium 2019 in Rotorua. Sir...
New animal welfare chatbot Emergency Management

New animal welfare chatbot

Situate Me Launches Ema For Animals. Left to right: Ella Harnish, Helen Wang, Andreas Benz and Rob Gourdie with Mac the Huntaway. Situate Me has launched a new animal welfare add-on that allows pet owners to register their animals left home alone in an emergency. The organisation is the emergency management crowd sourcing specialist behind the...
New Construction Accord signals change Infrastructure

New Construction Accord signals change

To be part of the solution, local government needs to admit it’s part of the problem. So says Richard Briggs, chief executive of Hamilton City Council and LGNZ representative on the Construction Sector Accord Steering Group. New Zealand’s construction sector provides work for nearly 250,000 people and contributes around $15 billion to our...
From conflict to commitment - Queen Street, Richmond, Nelson Placemaking

From conflict to commitment - Queen Street, Richmond, Nelson

Tasman District Council’s Jeff Robinson shared the ups, downs and lessons learnt from council’s bold remake of Richmond’s main thoroughfare. He presented this paper at the recent IPWEA NZ conference in Wellington. It is a rare opportunity to be asked to completely demolish an existing street and replace it with a design that includes almost...
Online abuse Communication

Online abuse

Abusive and threatening comments on social media are on the increase. Ruth Le Pla charts the rise of online nastiness towards local body candidates and elected members and asks what can be done about it. Is it time to bring in stricter controls to stamp out online abuse of local government elected officers? Is that even possible in a democracy...
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