The Cambridge Community Board wishes to extend its thanks to the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade, Waipā Networks, Waipā District Council staff and all those in our community who helped with the response and clean-up after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Our town has lost many of its beautiful trees and many in the community sustained damage to their homes and properties. We are thankful that we have such a supportive and united community and that the clean-up is progressing swiftly and effectively.
Jo Davies-Colley
Cambridge Neighbourhood Support have an excellent neighbourhood emergency plan template. This can be filled out by yourself and your neighbours, and details who around you has useful emergency skills, for example, nurses, or those with useful equipment, such as generators, chainsaws and medical supplies. It also would include those in your neighbourhood who would need assistance during an incident.
The Ahu Ake roadshow has begun and concludes at the end of March. The first local event is at Karāpiro School on March 1, 2:30-4pm. That evening we will also be at the Karāpiro Lookout from 5:30-8pm.
Cambridge Community Board members will be at all of the events and we encourage you to attend if you are able. Your feedback and ideas about the future of Cambridge is vital and we would like to hear from as many of you as possible.
Ahu Ake will become the key strategic planning document for council and it will drive all planning and services to ensure that council’s vision to build connected communities is delivered. If you are unable to attend any of the Ahu Ake events, you can give valuable feedback on the social pinpoint map on the Ahu Ake website. Hard copy surveys are also available at the council offices and library in Wilson Street.
In December, the Cambridge Community Board received a business case from Tesla, who proposed the installation of 12 electric vehicle charging bays in the carpark below St Peter’s Catholic Church in Anzac Street. These super-fast chargers were intended to be for Tesla vehicles only. As a board we spent considerable time discussing and workshopping this idea as well as engaging with and consulting the immediate neighbours of this area, namely, St Peter’s Catholic Church, St Peter’s Catholic Primary School and New World. The community board’s feedback to council was that we do not support the installation of 12 Tesla-only chargers in the Anzac Street carpark but would support, at a maximum, three chargers that would charge any brand of electric vehicle. Finally, the Cambridge Community Board recommended that Waipā District Council adopt a position on how public land will be used for EV chargers in the future.
- As always, if you have any Cambridge community issues you would like to discuss or if you have any feedback for us, please email me. I would love to hear from you! Jo.davies-Colley@Waipādc@govt.nz
