Community asked for ideas to help Tōtara Reserve management

Horizons Regional Council is asking the community for ideas to help shape the management of Tōtara Reserve for the next decade.

Tōtara Reserve Advisory Board Chair Fiona Gordon says Horizons was given stewardship of the reserve in 2012 and an asset management plan followed in 2014 to provide direction on how the reserve would be managed.
 
“Under the Reserves Act 1977 we are required to continually review the plan and we would like to hear the community’s ideas to help us do this.
 
“We are asking the community, whether they are campers or day visitors, to let us know what Tōtara Reserve means to them, where they think we should focus our efforts, what new developments they would like to see, or if they don’t visit Tōtara Reserve, what’s been holding them back,” says Cr Gordon.
 
“The engagement survey is the first step of a two-part process. Feedback from the survey will help us draft a new reserve management plan which we will then ask the community to provide further comment on.”
 
The engagement survey is open for feedback from Monday 1 July through to Sunday 4 August 2024. Further information and the online survey is available at www.haveyoursay.horizons.govt.nz.