Long Term Community Plan 2012-2022 - Hurunui District Council

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Environment and Safety
Overview
Environment and Safety covers the following 4 activity areas
described below:
Activity 1:
Emergency Services (civil defence and rural fire)
Activity 2: Resource Management (administering the District
Plan, resource consents, township planning, policy and bylaw
development)
Activity 3: Compliance and Regulatory Functions (building
controls, public health and liquor licencing, and animal control)
Activity 4: Waste Minimisation (refuse, recycling, transfer
stations, and litter bin collection)
Our Aim
To protect people, animals, and the environment from natural
disaster, disease and hazards.
Why is the Council Involved?
The Council is involved with the activities within the Environment
and Safety group to provide for the wellbeing of its people. All
of the activities within this group are to do with ensuring our
communities, including our environment, are protected from
certain harm to preserve what we have and leave it in good
condition for future generations. We want to help make our
District a desirable place through managing adverse effects of
activities and conditions through our policies, bylaws and plans.
These activities also contribute to the long term achievement of
our community outcomes.
Community Outcomes
The Community Services and Facilities described in this section,
primarily contribute to two of our community outcomes:
1. A desirable and safe place to live:
• We have attractive well designed townships
• Communities have access to adequate health and
emergency services and systems and resources
are available to meet civil defence emergencies
• Risks to public health are identified and
appropriately managed
2. A place that demonstrates environmental responsibility:
• We protect our environment while preserving
people’s property rights
• We minimise solid waste to the fullest extent,
and manage the rest in a sustainable way
Major Projects Planned
Project
New generator for the
Amberley Office used as
an emergency operation
centre in a civil defence
emergency
Tsunami remote trigger to
activate warning systems in
place in beach settlements
Tanker compliance survey $99,000
Year Planned
2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015+
$50,000
$25,980
Purchase and install digital $30,000 $32,214 $33,321
radios to replace defunct
analogue radio system
Tanker replacements $15,000 $99,963
Waiau fire depot $93,528
Waiau smoke chaser $40,000
Engineer assessments on
earthquake prone buildings
Significant Negative Effects
$23,000 $23,720 $24,442
The main intention of this group of activities is to mitigate
negative effects on the District and its environment. In the
main, our actual activities do not cause any significant negative
effects. The negative effects that this group of activities is aimed
at negating or minimising includes:
• Unclean and dangerous food handling can have
significant detrimental effects on the public through
sickness, therefore it is important we follow up
complaints involving food premises promptly to prevent
further spread of the disease. Similarly with water, as
infection and illness can spread quickly via drinking
water in particular.
• We have a key role to reduce negative effects caused
through sickness and alcohol abuse through the
regulation of alcohol outlets (such as restaurants and
retailers) and limiting the number of hours alcohol is
for sale.
• Unruly dogs and animals pose dangerous risks to people
and stock. There have been several cases of extreme dog
attacks in recent years within New Zealand which has
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