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Welcome to the Kaikoura District Council and the local government website for the Kaikoura District of New Zealand. Kaikoura is a Green Globe Certified Community: we are committed to sustaining our environment by managing and improving our impact and were one of the first Councils to adopt a Zero Waste Policy. Our website offers both tourist information for those who visit Kaikoura and community information for local people.
Kaikoura Panorama by Glen Coates, www.kahupublishing.co.nz

Environmental Planning

Environmental Planning leads the Council's participation in numerous initiatives to reduce the community's impact on the environment.

 

Such initiatives include:

  • Coastal Management Strategy
  • Sustainable Living & Sustainable Households programme (link >>>)
  • Trees for Travellers (link >>>)
  • Conservation Holidays - volunteer programmes (link >>>)
  • Coastal Cleanups(click here >>>)
    Please contact your Environmental Projects Officer, Jodie Denton on 03 319 5026.

 

  • Communities for Climate Protection (link >>>)
  • Energy Efficiency strategies (link >>>)
    Please contact your District Planner, Matt Hoggard for more information on 03 319 5026

 

  • Green Globe (link >>>)
  • Zero Waste (link >>>)
  • Kaikoura District Councils Waste Management Plan
  • Public Places Recycling Programme
  • Te Korowai
    Please contact your District Planner, Rachel Vaughan for more information on 03 319 5026.

 

  • Kaikoura's Fantastic No Plastic
    Please contact Vanessa Chambers of Seal Swim Kaikoura on 03 319 6182 in the first instance or alternatively, Rachel Vaughan on 03 319 5026.

 

  • Cloth Nappies.
    Please contact your Community Development Officer, Megan Pfeifer on 03 319 5026

 

 

Carving at South Bay Recreation Reserve