Franklin District Council
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The township population of Pukekohe is approx. 19,000 people. Pukekohe is Franklin’s main town along with Waiuku (population approx 5,500) and Tuakau (population approx 3000). Latest population figures show Franklin with a population of approx 58,932 and growing. Franklin is still primarily rural and we are proud of our country feel. Saying this, Pukekohe has two major supermarkets, some ‘big box’ shopping and a lively main street with many restaurants and cafés. Franklin is only approximately 30 minutes from Manukau City Centre, 50 minutes from downtown Auckland and approximately an hour from Hamilton. There are lots of recreational options in Franklin. Pukekohe has a Council owned recreation centre with a gym and indoor heated swimming pool along with outdoor pools around the district. We have beautiful coast on both sides including the black sand beach of Karioitahi, and the beaches of Port Waikato and the Awhitu Peninsula. We are also well known for motor sports and horse racing.
PUKEKOHE — At a hearing held in Pukekohe on 2 August 2010 the Liquor Licensing Authority cancelled the off-licence held by Fresh and Save for their premises 231/235 Manukau Road, Pukekohe.
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AUCKLAND — After the Council meeting held on 27 May, there are only four full meetings of Franklin District Council before local authority elections in 9 October, followed by the disestablishment of the Council and partition of Franklin District on 1 November.
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AUCKLAND — The Herald published a story on 18 May trumpeting a reduction in fees for a variety of Council services (including dog registration and building fees) when the Auckland Council takes over on 1 November.
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AUCKLAND — The Restricted Fire Season for Franklin Rural Fire Authority areas will be lifted from Friday 7 May 2010.
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AUCKLAND — Among the items considered at the Franklin District Council meeting (held on 29 April) were results for the first 9 months of the financial year and a tidy up process for the District Plan.
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AUCKLAND — Repair work on the Tuakau Bridge will commence on 12 April 2010 and is expected to continue until the end of May.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council is currently calling for applications for the Community Partnerships Loan Funding Scheme.
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AUCKLAND — Are you ready to turn your lights out on Saturday night? From 8.30-9.30pm on Saturday 27 March, lights will be switched off around the world as people participate in Earth Hour.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council is promoting a variety of composting systems this month, with free composting and worm farming demonstrations at two local venues.
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PUKEKOHE — Plan a special candlelight dinner party for the last Saturday in March and show your support for planet Earth.
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PUKEKOHE — At the first full council meeting of the year, Franklin District’s Mayor and Councillors made a number of decisions that are important to the community now, and in the future.
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PUKEKOHE — Last night’s Franklin Bike Wise Mayoral Challenge saw 835 participants jump on their bikes, trikes, tandems and unicycles to show their support for Franklin and compete against the big cities.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has started installing new signs and road marking at the approaches to schools throughout the district.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin’s top jockeys will be a little out of sorts at Pukekohe Park Raceway on 23 February when they switch from four legs to pedal power.
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PUKEKOHE — While most of Franklin is relaxing and enjoying the summer holiday period, Franklin District Council’s roading contractors will be working hard, taking advantage of the quieter roads and summer weather.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council has officially welcomed a jumbo-sized citizen to the district.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin drivers and cyclists are being asked to ‘share’ as part of a new road safety campaign.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin motorbike riders will be more visible on our roads thanks to a bright safety initiative.
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AUCKLAND — Truckies are being encouraged to chow down on healthier food in an effort to improve road safety.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council’s first comprehensive local alcohol policy has been adopted.
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PAIHIA — Nationwide publicity promoting the Far North as a visitor destination will evolve from the inaugural Russell to Paihia leg of the Sovereign NZ Ocean Swim Series in the Bay of Islands on Saturday 12th December.
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AUCKLAND — Thinking of buying a pool for the kids this summer? Franklin District Council is reminding residents that even a temporary pool needs to be securely fenced.
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AUCKLAND — Don’t panic if you see someone watching your parking patterns in our CBD’s over the next few weeks.
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AUCKLAND — More than 180 riders became safer road users last weekend after attending a unique motorcycle road rider training day, the first of its kind in the greater Auckland region.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin’s alcohol retailers passed with flying colours earlier this month when a major operation was conducted in the greater Auckland area to check for the selling of alcohol to minors.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has today made a submission to the Local Government Commission on local government boundary and representation issues for Franklin.
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AUCKLAND — On Monday 29 September at around 10.30am, a localised tornado affected around five properties over a 3-4km path in the Ramarama area (Willow/Davis/Maxted Roads).
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PUKEKOHE — Get rid of those unwanted chemicals and make Franklin a safer place.
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PUKEKOHE — Come along to a special gala day and the official reopening of Hamilton Estate Community Hall on Saturday 26 September.
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AUCKLAND — The community is invited to participate in a workshop on 1 October to discuss how to identify and document Franklin’s heritage sites with the aim to protect, enhance and manage them.
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AUCKLAND — The Select Committee on the Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill reported back to Parliament this afternoon.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council’s first comprehensive local alcohol policy is now out for public consultation.
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AUCKLAND — In a front page story on Tuesday 25 August, the Franklin County News quotes a reliable source who says the decision on Franklin’s future is already made.
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AUCKLAND — The public hearing for Plan Change 24, which outlines future growth plans for Pokeno, starts today.
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AUCKLAND — Grand concept plans for a huge new recreation development at Karaka Sports Ground have been approved by Franklin District Council and the Karaka Sports Park Development Committee.
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PUKEKOHE — The blueprint for the development of Bledisloe Park for the next ten years has now been approved by Franklin District Council.
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PUKEKOHE — The Franklin Safer Community Council has changed their name to Franklin Safer Community Coalition (SCC).
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has approved three new speed limit changes for Franklin.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council is working with NZ Police to run a speed awareness campaign, with the major focus around speed near schools.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin’s Road Safety Liaison Group has released the latest six weekly report, for the period 16 June – 28 July 2009.
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PUKEKOHE — The final plan for Seddon Park’s redevelopment has been completed, with a true community approach taken in designing the space.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council is currently calling for applications for the Community Partnerships Loan Funding Scheme.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has adopted the “Franklin District Council Community Plan 2009-19 – working together for our future” with the average rate increase for the coming year reduced from the 4.1% originally proposed, to 2.8%.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin’s Road Safety Liaison Group has released the latest six weekly report, which included one fatality, for the period 5 May – 16 June 2009.
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AUCKLAND — A new campaign to discourage under-age drinking and those buying it for young people has been launched in Franklin.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has completed its deliberations following the hearing of submissions to the draft Long Term Council Community Plan 2009-19.
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AUCKLAND — More than 80 members of the public spoke at the draft Franklin District Council Community Plan 2009-19 hearings this week, the most ever heard by Council.
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AUCKLAND — Entrepreneurs in Franklin are a creative lot – with signage popping up in weird and wacky places all around the district.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council and the Police completed an operation last week targeting retailers for the sale of alcohol to minors.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin’s Road Safety Liaison Group has released the latest six weekly report, which features mixed results.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Mayor Mark Ball is making a plea to residents in a bid to keep us all safe.
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AUCKLAND — Another public consultation phase on the future of Pokeno has come to an end when the opportunity for further submissions closed last Friday.
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AUCKLAND — The submission period for the draft Franklin District Council Community Plan 2009-19 has now closed.
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AUCKLAND — Voting closed at 12 noon today (Wednesday 29 April 2009) for the Onewhero/Tuakau Community Board by-election.
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Graffiti paint out kits are now available for communities who suffer from tagging.
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AUCKLAND — Hunua MP, Paul Hutchinson and Franklin Mayor, Mark Ball held a public meeting in the Pukekohe Town Hall last night to allow the Franklin community to comment on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance.
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Developing Growers Stadium into a recreation hub will be one step closer in May.
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Public interest in the future of Pokeno is high, with many interested residents and stakeholders participating in the consultation process on proposed Plan Change 24.
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AUCKLAND — Local bee keepers are asking the public for help in identifying a plant that could send them out of business.
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Firth of Thames stop banks and Kopu Bridge - potential tourism assets The Kopu Bridge and mangrove-fringed stopbanks along the Firth of Thames could form a new cycleway and walking trail according to district mayors.
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PUKEKOHE — Twenty/twenty vision and mobility is something many of us take for granted, however there are many living in our community who find even simple tasks like walking along the footpath dangerous.
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This summers fair weather has resulted in a bumper season for road works.
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AUCKLAND — Don’t worry when lights go out next Saturday night around the district – there’s no power cut.
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PUKEKOHE — If you have an interest in how waste is managed in Franklin, have your say on the proposed Waste Bylaw.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has lifted the Restricted Fire Season that has been in place across the District since December.
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PUKEKOHE — Bledisloe Park users are being asked to get involved in the future development of this central Pukekohe recreation area.
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PUKEKOHE — Two candidates have been nominated for the Onewhero/Tuakau Community Board by-election, which is due to be held on Wednesday 29 April.
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AUCKLAND — Last night’s Franklin Bike Wise Mayoral Challenge saw 737 participants jump on their bikes, trikes, tandems and unicycles to show their support for Franklin and compete against the big cities.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council is currently working on plans for the redesign of Seddon Park.
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PUKEKOHE — Work has begun on Franklin’s largest Council-led individual project.
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AUCKLAND — Nominations open today for a by-election to elect a new member to the Onewhero/Tuakau Community Board of the Franklin District Council.
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AUCKLAND — Pokeno residents and the general public have until 25 February to have their say on the future growth of Pokeno, which could see its population grow to more than 5,000 by 2051.*
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AUCKLAND — From 16 February the part-time Franklin District Council Service Centre in Tuakau will be replaced with access to Council information at the Tuakau Library.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council is keen to remind people of the dangers associated with lighting fires after the recent devastating wild fires at Mahia and Nelson.
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PUKEKOHE — The Franklin Sport, Swim and Fitness indoor swimming pool opened again on Tuesday, 27 January.
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AUCKLAND — Residents showed their creative parking skills this Christmas as people found any way to park in and around Franklin’s main town centres.
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PUKEKOHE — Late last year number 2 Golding Road fell under the swinging arm of a bulldozer as Franklin District Council prepared the site for long term roading improvements to the Golding Road, East Street and Belgium Road intersection.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council would like to remind residents and visitors that the indoor swimming pool, on Franklin Road, will remain closed a little longer this summer to allow the pool floor to be retiled.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has, in conjunction with Papakura District Council, launched its new summer road safety campaign, ‘Great Mates Drive Sober’.
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WAIUKU — The Waiuku transfer station is being transformed into a Resource Recovery Complex (RRC).
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council yesterday adopted Proposed Plan Change 24 for the Pokeno area.
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AUCKLAND — A Restricted Fire Season will be in place in the Franklin District from Monday 15 December.
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AUCKLAND — Once again Franklin’s Road Safety Liaison Group has received a report on 13 serious crashes in the District over the last six weeks.
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PUKEKOHE — The Pukekohe Rotary Club has pledged ongoing support for the volunteer community patrol, the Pukekohe Possums.
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WAIUKU — Waiuku has run out of residential land (undeveloped land zoned for residential purposes).
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AUCKLAND — Most New Zealanders live within 10 km of our coastline, 1100km of which is coastal dunes.
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AUCKLAND — You may have heard the thud or felt the vibrations when some of the mature gum trees at Hickey’s Reserve (home to the Water Treatment Plant) in Pukekohe fell over this winter.
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AUCKLAND — Each year, in the Auckland region, almost half of the children under the age of five who drown do so not at a wild west coast beach but in a backyard swimming pool.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin’s outdoor pools are due to open their doors for the summer season on Monday 17 November.
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PUKEKOHE — In a joint announcement, Franklin District Mayor, Mark Ball and Counties Manukau Rugby Chairman, Matthew Newman, are delighted to advise that Franklin District Council has approved funding for lights at Growers Stadium as the first step in an overall Recreation Hub development in the Stadium Drive area.
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AUCKLAND — Franklin District Council has launched a bold new initiative to help them know your views on Franklin issues.
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PUKEKOHE — The sun is shining, the days are longer and people are out and about&getting hit by trees??!! Franklin District Council says that it is this time of year when everyone, Council included, has to be careful to monitor spring growth and keep tree and shrub growth away from footpaths.
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AUCKLAND — In the first joint planning process for Tuakau, Franklin District Council and RSSL Investments will be working towards providing more residential land in Tuakau East.
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PUKEKOHE — The Te Kotahitanga Marae Te Kohanga Reo were the winners of Franklin District Councils Disaster Awareness Week competition.
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AUCKLAND — Every six weeks 12 – 13 serious crashes are reported in Franklin.
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PUKEKOHE — Access to Pukekohe Hill Reserve will be restricted from Wednesday 8 October to Friday 17 October for roadworks associated with the construction of a vehicle turnaround.
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AUCKLAND — The latest development in the scrap metal thefts throughout Franklin could see you falling down a hole, or worse, and Franklin District Council is warning everyone to take care.
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PUKEKOHE — Franklin District Council is urging the community to use Disaster Awareness Week, 5 – 11 October, to take action and prepare themselves to get through a disaster.
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PUKEKOHE — Stage Two of the Pukekohe Town Centre upgrade is continuing.
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