Eastbourne is a friendly sea side village just a short drive or ferry ride to Wellington City, the capital and cultural centre of New Zealand. Perfect for all ages with schools, shops, library, medical, dental, many recreation options such as coastal rides and walks, hiking in the hills, beaches, sailing and fishing. Safe for children and suitable for the elderly, it’s perfect for families
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Sunshine Bay to Days Bay corner issuesThe Tupua Horo Nuku resilience project (seawall and shared path) is proving very popular, but is also bringing focus to the areas where there are still issues. This post is to put the current situation (3 May 2026) into context and describe possible next steps. Days Bay not included Days Bay was not included in the path plans for well reported reasons, the main one being that the Days Bay section was complex, design and consultation would have been prolonged, and had it been included the […]
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HCC Waste Collection for Monday 18 May Bins : BLUE (glass) & RED (landfill)
Options for recycling all other materials are listed here
Next Lion's Skip Bin is Saturday 30 MayBurdan's Gate 8:00 am to 11:30 am, charges apply, unload help available
Metservice: Marine Warnings & Watches @ 4:30 pm Wed 13 May
Wellington Water recent alerts updated 4:14 pm Wed 13 May
13 May 1:49 pm Water outage notice
Water Outage - Kowhai Street, Eastbourne This will affect the following: All of Kowhai Street All of Karaka Street, 387 Muritai RoadReason for shutdown: Service Connection Repair
Outage start date: 2026-05-13 13:50:00
Estimated outage end date: 2026-05-13 14:50:00
Properties affected : 45
(To see all outages and other notices go to LAWA)
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(To see all outages and other notices go to LAWA)
HCC Active Consultations updated 4:13 pm Wed 13 May
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GWRC Active Consultations @ 12:00 pm Wed 13 May
Kāpiti Flood Hazard Mapping - Engagement on historic flood eventsGWRC Have Your Say / Consultations
Ferry Alerts updated 4:50 pm Wed 13 May
13 May 6:00 am Alert - Ferry QDF: Restricted timetable running Wednesday morning due to staff illness12 May 5:01 pm Alert - Ferry QDF: Restricted timetable running Wednesday morning due to staff illness
Bluebridge Service Alerts updated 4:30 pm Wed 13 May
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East Harbour Parks Status updated 4:10 pm Wed 13 May
Professional deer culling in Northern Forest: 7 May-22 May
Alerts, Notices and restrictions can be found hereGollan’s Valley Station
Alerts, Notices and restrictions can be found here
RNZ: Latest 5 News Items updated 3:59 pm Wed 13 May
Wed 3:21 pm The name of this health condition was wrong - it's been changed. Wed 3:08 pm Mussel farmer Aroma Aquaculture fined $24k for biosecurity breaches. Wed 1:40 pm Are small-scale community raffles legal?. Wed 12:56 pm Mother denies any role in baby Soul Turany's violent death. Wed 12:55 pm Veteran wins appeal for brain-cancer to be treated as service-related in landmark case. 
Geonet: recent earthquakes near Eastbourne updated 4:50 pm Wed 13 May
4.2 - (moderate) 44.7 km West of Eastbourne at 9:02 pm Tue 12 May (confirmed)
1.4 - (unnoticeable) 10.1 km North of Eastbourne at 5:30 pm Tue 12 May (confirmed)
Product Recalls updated 12:00 pm Wed 13 May
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