Monitoring underway to support air plan review Nelson City Council’s Planning and Regulatory Committee today recommended establishing a working party and stakeholders group to help with the review of the Nelson Air Quality Plan (NAQP), which will involve focused engagement with residents, compliance monitoring and modelling. Planning and Regulatory Committee Chair Brian McGurk says he welcomed a large group of interested residents to today’s meeting who were keen to hear Council’s discussion. “We heard from a few community members in public forum who told us about the difficulties they have keeping their homes warm in winter. They would like us to consider changes to our current rules with an eye toward an equitable approach. “The difficulty we have is that we are unable to change the NAQP right away. For any plan change to work it must be supported by good science. We need more detailed information to help us consider any possible plan change to the NAQP. The information we have at the moment is dated and incomplete and it needs to be current. We’ve recommended Council set aside $100,000 in the Annual Plan for this work to be carried out by November. More info - nelson.govt.nz/council/news/recent-media-releases-and-news/monitoring-underway-to-support-air-plan-review/
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 04:44:13 +0000
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