What Residents are interested in

From the WRA meeting in May came the following suggestions for the issues and topics we should concentrate on in the Whitby Village Plan:

* Youth
* Educational facilities
* Recreation, eg Pool and facilities for older people
* Public transport
* Shops/shopping
* Walkways
* Limits on further housing and look at more varied housing types esp high density cheaper types
* Different types of business
* Effects of global warming especially on Inlet
* Self sufficiency in energy- generating our own ?
* Traffic esp SH58 and connections to Transmission Gully
* Traffic management systems in Whitby
* Reserves and play facilities

Have you got other ideas- post them here before July 15th please

Funding help from Porirua City Council

At a meeting with all the Residents Associations last week Porirua City Council announced some $1.2 million of funding in the 2008 financial year for a range of Village activities. Whitby's Village Plan is getting some $5000 of assistance which we plan to use for a survey of all residents. Watch this space.