Regional Parks Management Plan Review

More solar compacting rubbish bins to stop overflow

They should include a message to encourage people to take home their rubbish though. There should be a recycling bin next to it that looks very different to avoid mixing or cross contamination. No touch options like this one are better. https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/110698721/solarpowered-rubbish-bins-crush-the-trash

I feel that the Council should start a management programme that will see Scandrett's Regional Park,turned into an ecological island.

The first step should be to erect a predator fence along the boundary from scandretts bay to martins bay.This is a relatively short distance.

Rabbits are out of control on pukekoe hill and need to be managed urgently

Buy more land to create or expand parks as the city grows- link to pensions/ investment funds

This may seem aspirational, but as larger farms or blocks of land, or even connecting blocks between neighbourhoods/ areas come up for sale, could we consider buying them or making them parks, or negotiating buying a slice for a new trail/ accessway? I think it might be possible to crowdsource some of the money or get pension funds to buy them (and then the land would appreciate and pay out as pensions mature). If we thought carefully about how to fund them, there could be a way and there would be wellbeing benefits for communities. This could help as our population grows and existing parks come under pressure. It would protect and preserve green spaces too. Farms could potentially stay working/ teaching farms or be planted in trees & bush or a combo, could have eco-housing on somewhere that's also a park too. Something for the Green Investment Bank or KiwiSaver funds to consider?

Get rid of set nets at Te Haruhi Bay!!

I've seen set nets indiscriminately kill seabirds, stingrays, penguins and undersized fish at Shakespear Regional Park. Set nets kill everything, especially when the nets detach from the anchor and drift out to sea. They're being used for 9 months of the year, with the exception of the busy summer season. I would love to see a ban of set nets at Te Haruhi Bay all year. Save our seabirds! Stop set netting!