SH2 closures
South Chapel St, Masterton on State Highway 2 will be closed on Sunday night 8pm-6am for resurfacing works. Light vehicles detour via Dixon St and heavy vehicles detour via Ngaumutawa Rd. High St, Carterton, between Kent St and South of Belvedere Rd intersections will be closed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights 9pm to 5am for resurfacing. The north and southbound traffic will follow signposted detours.
Libraries closed
The Greytown and Carterton libraries will be closed today, with both district councils citing staffing shortages. They will reopen on Monday at 9.30am.
Greytown
by-election
Special votes can be cast today for the Greytown Community Board by-election. Votes can be made at the Greytown Town Centre between 9.30am and 2pm. Special votes are for people who live or pay rates in the Greytown ward, but their names aren’t in the final electoral roll, or did not receive a voting paper. Special votes can also be cast at the Council office in Martinborough during normal office hours until noon on February 17.
Welhom hearing
Two hearing commissioners have been appointed to oversee a plan change hearing for a retirement village proposal in Masterton.
Earlier last year, Welhom Developments asked Masterton District Council to rezone about 15 hectares of rural land near the Cashmere Oaks subdivision to build the village. About 9ha would be used for a potential retirement village, and the rest would be used for standard residential subdivision and development, Welhom Developments’ application said. A total of 254 houses could be built on the site; a mix of one and two-storey buildings with a maximum height of 10 metres. The site is currently used for pastoral grazing.
The plan change process requires a hearing to be held and decisions to be made on submissions, as well as on the plan change itself. In total, 11 submissions on the plan change have been made. The hearing has been set down for March 8 -10 at the Masterton Club between 9am-4pm.
