Palmerston North City Council is currently consulting on its draft City-wide Vegetation Framework. Submissions close on Friday March 18th.

The purpose of the draft Framework is to provide a non-regulatory toolkit for delivering comprehensive planting guidance for the city based on careful analysis. It is aimed at a range of users who will all play a part in initiating, installing and ensuring the ongoing survival of the 'lungs' of the City. This includes community groups, tangata whenua, Palmerston North City Council officers, professionals involved in design and implementation and the public.

The draft vision for the Framework is:

“To create a City-wide Green Network that celebrates our local and imported biodiversity and contributes to a healthy and attractive City, its surrounding villages, the Manawatū River and its Green Corridors.

The stated aims of the Framework are:

• To communicate the design vision for Palmerston North’s vegetation
• To provide a city-wide vegetation framework that can be utilised by several user groups
• To set out the principles and techniques to be used to implement and manage vegetation, ensuring its viability in the long term

The draft consultation document can be found here

Click on the link to the right for ENM's submission

Forest & Bird Manawatu has prepared a submission. Email coordinator@enm.org.nz if you'd like to be sent Forest & Bird's draft submission

ENM members Marilyn and Bruce Bulloch have shared their submission for the information of others (also available on right)