The next phase of consultation between Tamahere and the Waikato District Council has begun on locals’ priorities for their area.
Tamahere people have until April 8 to express their views online and at a community meeting later this month.
The council is now calling for Tamahere’s top three priorities on issues such as a footbridge across Airport Rd, a zero waste initiative at the new shopping centre, and the re-zoning of some land from rural to village.
A motorcyclist was left critically injured after his bike and a station wagon collided head-on on a new section of the Waikato Expressway being built south of Hamilton.
Emergency services were called to the crash on State Highway 1 at Tamahere, between Hamilton and Cambridge, about 1.20pm Wednesday.
A 65-year-old man riding a motorcycle was treated at the scene before being taken to Waikato Hospital where he was on Wednesday in a critical condition.
Residents of Rototuna in Hamilton have joined voices with Tamahere householders outraged about massive houses being built in their communities they fear are to become Chinese student hostels.
Chinese developer LV Park Construction is building a two-storey, seven bedroom house with ensuites in Barwick Place, Rototuna, and neighbours who believe it is intended to be student housing have taken their concerns to the Hamilton City Council.
The Waikato Times reported last week that LV Park manager Thomas Wang planned eight large-scale homes in a developing area of Tamahere, in the Waikato District Council’s patch.
Tamahere homeowners are furious over what is being dubbed an illegal student housing complex they say will destroy their quiet, country lifestyle.
Waikato District Council is investigating the development after a resident raised concerns that eight massive houses being built on Hart Rd were intended to be used as hostel-type housing for Chinese students.
But the Waikato-based Chinese housing developer says such claims are untrue.
Two dogs left to roam their Tamahere neighbourhood attacked sheep on Friday, mauling three so badly they had to be put down.
A Tamahere man who saw the dogs attacking the sheep in a Devine Rd paddock mid morning on Friday said a fourth sheep was also mauled but would probably survive.
Southside Sands, which proposed a quarry on a riverside property opposite Tamahere homes, has withdrawn its application.
Submitters on the proposal, including local resident Mark Chrisp who headed Tamahere opposition to the quarry, were advised the resource consent application had been withdrawn this week.
The new season bursts into life at Inspirit Gallery with Spring, the Tamahere gallery’s first sculpture exhibition featuring both indoor and outdoor artworks, opening on Friday, September 23.
The exhibition brings together more than 20 of the North Island’s most innovative and highly regarded sculptors to celebrate the season of renewed hope in this timeless art form.
An inquest into an explosion at Icepak Tamahere that killed a senior firefighter and injured several of his colleagues has heard how the plant had ongoing problems – including a major gas leak – just months before the fatal blast.
The inquest into the death of senior firefighter Derek Lovell opened in Hamilton today more than three years after he died and has been widely reported.
