Waimea Weekly 6 July 2022

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Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated

Wednesday 6 July 2022

The Meadows two years on This before and after shot shows the phenomenal amount of construction that has taken place in The Meadows in just two years. The images show The Meadows entrance from McShane Rd in June 2020 and June 2022. The Meadows GM Jo Taylor says the progress would not have been possible without the huge effort by Ching Contracting, Donaldson Civil, GJ Gardner Homes, Milestone Homes and Jennian Homes and all of their associated tradespeople. She says everyone has been working under increasing pressures including staff-isolating, supply issues and increasing delays across the board, but have managed to continue to build quality homes for hundreds of families. There are 180 completed homes in The Meadows, with another 70 currently under construction and many more to come. Photos: Supplied.

Stock bylaws ‘unworkable’ MAX FRETHEY Tasman District Council’s draft Stock Control and Droving Bylaw has come under fire for being ‘unworkable’ with features such

as holding stock back 50 metres from a road and removing faecal matter from the road and/or road margins. Tasman District Council’s draft Stock Control and Droving By-

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law has been released for public consultation, but some farmers are concerned that it could make moving stock unworkable. One of the conditions that some are not happy about is having to

hold stock back 50 metres from the exit point before crossing or moving onto a road. The proposal has also come under fire on social media with one post on the NZ Farming

Facebook page seeing over 1,000 comments. “More unworkable regulations made by people who just have no

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