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The Gore District Council is made up of 11 Councillors and a Mayor. The Mayor is elected district-wide. Here you can find out how to contact your councillor and the Code of Conduct they work by.

This is where you will find information about how the Council works, our meetings and agendas, and the management team.

Here you will find out all about our youth council, its meetings and what it does during the year.

A good chinwag has always been at the heart of community. We recognise this and seek to revive the art of conversation with the introduction of a new community digital newsletter, ChinWag. It will replace our monthly Noticeboard page and the Hokonui Herald.

Road conditions, tenders and all the latest public notices can be found here

Find out about your rates, rates rebates and payment options as well as search our properties database.

This is where you can find information about:

Here you will find information about drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and trade waste. There are also details about Gore's main water supply Cooper's Wells.

You will find information about such things as special licences, manager's certificates, fees & charges and district licensing committees here.

You will find information about keeping animals in urban areas, dog control, being a responsible dog owner and dog registration obligations here

You will find information about getting a building consent, accessing building forms, fence and boundary rules, LIM reports and Restricted Building Work here

You will information here about the District's six cemeteries and burial costs.

You will find information here about the District Plan, resource consents and air quality.

Here you will find information about trees, long grass and overhanging foliage, and noise control.

Here you will find information about road conditions, road safety and our footpaths.

This is where you can find information about:

MLT Event Centre
James Cumming Wing
Mataura Community Centre
Community Halls

In this section you will find information about our award winning public gardens, sports grounds, playgrounds, walkways and cycleways, and all things outdoors.

You will information here about the District's six cemeteries and burial costs.

With a thriving arts and heritage department, these pages have details about our key attractions in Gore, Mataura and Mandeville.

You will find information here on our library services, catalogue and regular features at Gore and Mataura.

A full list of our facilities and their opening hours is available here.

Documents & Forms

A good chinwag has always been at the heart of community. We recognise this and seek to revive the art of conversation with the introduction of a new community digital newsletter, ChinWag. It will replace our monthly Noticeboard page and the Hokonui Herald.

The Council likes to make things easy for our customers and promotes direct debit payments for rates. Here you will find information about this and other payment options we have for our many services.

Whether it's our cemeteries database, properties in the District, library catalogue or events calendar, you will find the link here.

Your Council

Significance and Engagement Policy

The Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy [PDF, 389 KB] lets the community and employees know what they can expect with regard to

• what decisions or matters the Council and the community consider to be particularly important;
• how the Council will assess the importance of matters; and
• how and when the community can expect to be consulted on both.

Engagement

The Policy aims to:
• ensure a clear and consistent approach to how we engage with residents, ratepayers and stakeholders; and
• ensure residents, ratepayers and stakeholders get accurate information in a timely manner so they can make informed comment during the decision-making process.

It also provides guidance to elected members and Council staff as to what level and form of engagement may be required from the start of a decision-making process.

Significance

The Policy shows how the Council will assess importance during a decision-making process, ie its level of significance. The level of significance is a guide to the degree of community engagement that may be required to gain an understanding of community views and preferences on an issue.

Councils introduced these policies this year as a result of recent changes to the Local Government Act 2002.

Gore District Council 29 Bowler Avenue Gore P: 03 209 0330 E: info@goredc.govt.nz