Katikati, your A&P Show is on this Sunday, February 7.
Please attend the show and make your voice heard very loudly on these subjects that severely affect you!
The regional council and your local MP have tents – and the mayor is around too.
Protest very loudly, even drop flyers in their tents. We are being so ripped off, insulted and totally overcharged on these issues:
HAIL (Hazardous Activities and Industries List) – if you haven't had this slapped on your Property LIM (Land Information Memorandum) title – you eventually will as BOP is considered a highly contaminated area! You are deemed guilty and have to prove that your property is not contaminated (how is this legal?)
So before you build, sell or change the activity of your property, you will have to do the council's soil test of about $5000.
Freshwater ownership or co-governance given over to the regional council to activate, but very little said to the rest of us!
This will go through in a blink of an eye if you don't try to stop it!
Watch the BOP Regional Council website, as they will ask for more input soon. Certainly go to their tent at the Katikati A&P Show to ask questions and drop a leaflet of objection here too.
Rates: Another place we are being ripped and over charged.
The WBOP is one of the highest rated in the country and even though we petitioned and laid it out to council, they are still intent on overspending/borrowing at your expense.
We fund and pay their wages, yet they waste our money and just impose new rulings on us continually, with no regard that the people cannot keep incurring more costs and charges.

C Humphreys, Katikati