Waikato District Council has just published its blueprint plan for Raglan. The top priority initiatives in the plan for Raglan include:
- Building a strong identity for the town.
- Supporting Raglan Naturally in their prioritised local initiatives such as local food production, energy self sufficiency, alternatives to weed spraying, GE free approaches and education regarding climate change.
- Partnering with Raglan Naturally in respect to planning processes.
The full plan for Raglan is published on council website:
Waikato District Council says that workshops were held in Raglan and nine other townships between July and November 2018. Council heard from hundreds of members of the public about what issues and ideas they had for their towns. The council then issued a draft Waikato Blueprint for consultation in March of this year. During this consultation, submitters were asked to indicate their top five district wide priorities and their top three priorities for each of the Local Area Blueprints. In total 439 submissions were received.
WDC says, “Having a clear sense of the community’s priorities will now help direct Council’s resources towards the things that are really important to the community. Council will be looking for ways to support our communities to deliver on some of the initiatives highlighted in the Blueprint. It’s important to realise that Council can’t deliver all of the Blueprint and will be working with our communities and other agencies to bring life to this document.
Through the adoption of such a meaningful document, we’re telling the community that we want to take a new and different approach to planning. The implementation phase of the Blueprint has just kicked off – the first step will be implementation planning. Additional Local Area Blueprints are also planned to be developed over time.”