Consultation at Matawai and Motu

The likes, dislikes and improvement points from the workshop held at Matawai Fire Station,  9 February 2010

Likes

• Street lights are good
• Location "a world of our own"
• Recreation area (skateboard, netball, field - cricket and touch)
• Like the smallness and safeness of the community - safety
• Pub as a historical landmark for the main street
• Squash court, hall, tennis court, nurse, police
• Hotel for its history/appearance (a minus is the parking), Motu pig-hunting competition, Motu challenge
• Fire brigade, school, bus service to TKK, Robb Bros, Dump
• Maintain stop banks (flood protection)
• Having public toilets
• Maintain sealed roads
• Town verges maintained
• Mountain bike opportunities
• Solitude
• It snows!
• Shop fronts and pub show the character and town history
• Opportunity for peace and quiet at the campground
• Nice and quiet
• The wekas biting my daughter's toes
• Flags are great in main street
• Fire brigade - wonderful service and grounds
• Danny Larsen's influence has greatly enhanced the main street
• Improved arrangement for transfer station
• Wonderful school - fantastic grounds
• Reserve off Kerei Street attractive and useful - keep giving the school the money to maintain it
• Hall is an important community facility - need regular funding stream

Dislikes

• Dogs barking at night
• Location of the hall - would be great by the school to create a hub or centre for the community
• Over-flowing rubbish bins in the main street - should have recycling bins like Gisborne, and need a drinking fountain
• Footpaths - need to increase width in Kerei Street and Raumati Street
• Untidy buildings
• Trout fishing is fickle
• Only place to stretch legs is at the toilet and the playground is not promoted or visible
• Signposts to attractions - kiwi sanctuary, Motu Transport Museum, Pakihi track, Motu Falls etc
• Footpaths need repair
• Slow down the traffic through town
• Flower bed
• Stock wandering into the Motu River - pollution of the river
• Chemical run-off - preserve the waterways
• Improve footpaths
• No street lights on Kerei Street
• Big open drain along Kerei Street
• Regularly blocked drain corner of Kerei and main streets
• Improve approaches to town
• Move signage further out
• Drains can not handle high rainfall and some properties flood
• Rubbish around sign to Motu - need native plantings
• Flags not good when shabby

Improvements

• Bigger rubbish bins with lids as rubbish flies out of them - not drums
• Improve Motu Road bridge to make two lanes
• Paint buildings in the main street
• New footpaths - full of holes, wooden kerbing, dangerous
• Drainage - always floods outside policeman's house and chews up side streets when raining - contractor not doing a good job - Council to check performance of spraying and keeping side roads mowed
• Nicer plan boxes in main street
• More shade trees around the recreation area along the fence (west)
• Pedestrian crossing in main street outside shop
• Use hall space to build a rest area, park or playground
• Put in an ATM machine, improve cell phone coverage and reliable high speed broadband
• Develop relationships with key agencies - DoC, GDC, Transit NZ to get things done - new signs, maps and rest areas
• Move community hall to school and use space as a rest area and display info about Motu and Matawai (historic) and run the waioeka theme through the township
• Carry the gorge rock them through the village, put up interpretation signs with history and maps in
• Matawai and Motu, improve landscaping with a consistent theme and gardens with small natives
• Landscaping
• Gardens
• Help with improvements to community house and moving post office to community house
• Ten year plan for the Motu River to fence and plant i.e. keep cattle out of waterways and stop erosion
• Make public toilets bird proof
• Signage for cycle trail
• Rubbish bins
• Signage for kiwi enclosure
• Maintenance of urupa
• Enhanced playground and family stop not outside the toilets to promote people to stop - families stopping and spending money in town
• Info board to promote what do do, where to stay outside of Matawai
• Picnic spot near old railway bridge
• Clear sky night - low spill street lamps
• Flower bed near the phone booth
• Gateway to Motu
• Support township celebrations - history, heritage, milling, railway
• Continue to develop and support community centre
• Preserve andprotect the waterways - ensure rivers, streams, creeks are fenced and planted
• Whineray Reserve
• Keep the school open
• Info and map board with shelter near the bridge
• Clear sky night - improve street lamps to promote stars
• How to promote cycleway - cottage industry? Keep numbers in rural NZ
• Install a permanent speed camera to fund future development
• Do something with the land on Kerei Street - who owns it?
• Improve first impressions and attractiveness of the village main street
• Play area/rest area on the main street
• Gardens, plants large rocks under and around 50km sign at both entrances - school keen to maintain
• Improve entrance to Motu Road - native plants, boulders
• Council assistance with yearly contribution to ongoing maintenance
• Hotel