Published as Issue No. 68
24 April, 2013
Partnership with Council: Last year the Kae Miller Trust, which owns and manages the Alice Krebs Lodge on the View Rd/Te Raekaihau Headland Park, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City Council. The MOU gives the Trust – and implicitly the Houghton Valley community and TriG regeneration group members – guardianship rights for this area. One year on and the Trustees (locals – Brenda, Grant, Jenny and Norman) will meet on May 14th with the Parks & Reserves Dept to review the agreement. The meeting will be held in the Lodge at 3 p.m., ring Grant if you want to know more.
Houghton Valley Website: The last few months has seen considerable effort by Ian of View Rd and Grant designing and building a new Houghton Valley website. Like many of Grant’s activities they have two objectives, building of community resources and work towards his PhD study – “Stewardship: An Ethico-Aesthetic Approach to Uncertain Futures in the Valley of the Wild”. The site will be launched later in the year.
Cleaning up Houghton Bay: The attached document [No attachment], distributed on April 11, summarises the state of play – from the Council’s perspective – in the resident-driven initiative to eliminate what the they describe as “the on-going occurrence of pungent and ‘colourful’ discharges in Houghton Bay.” One recommendation is: the Houghton Valley community be involved in the assessment of the catchment with the possibility of setting up a “care” group within the Community that builds on the work already undertaken.
Norman and Grant