Media Release
Organisation: Governance and Administration Select Committee
For release: 29 November 2017
Have your say on changes to the Thames-Coromandel and Hauraki District Council’s management of mangrove trees.
The Thames–Coromandel District Council and Hauraki District Council Mangrove Management Bill, a local bill in the name
of Hon Scott Simpson, would allow the two councils to develop management plans to manage the proliferation of mangroves
within the two councils coastal boundaries.
The bill would provide for a community-based process to allow each council to implement a plan that reduces mangrove
growth to acceptable levels to improve any access, recreation, amenity, or ecosystem values.
Parliament’s Governance and Administration Committee is now be considering the bill. Committee chairperson Brett Hudson
encourages people with views on the draft legislation to share these with the committee. “It’s important that we hear
the public’s views on this bill, especially those from people in the Thames-Coromandel area, so that the committee can
make well-informed decisions about what, if any, changes that are necessary to improve the bill.”
Tell the Governance and Administration Committee what you think
Send your submission on the bill by midnight on Friday 23 February 2018.
For more details about the bill:
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