Community Events & Contacts

Find out what’s on, how to get there, communities of interest, services on offer around Hutt City and getting help:

Current Council Issues & Plans

• Draft Long Term Council Community Plan (submissions close 15 May 2008)
• Wellington Regional Strategy (full report & strategy now open for consultation)

City Information

• Hutt City Council (Everything about our city)
• Hutt City Events (What’s on and where)
• Visit Hutt City (Info for visitors to Hutt - sights, accommodation, what's on...)
• Demographic Profile     (The people of our city)
• Lower Hutt - Wikipedia (an independent view - edit or add to the content!)
  

City Attractions

• The New Dowse ( the redeveloped Dowse Art Museum)
• Petone Settlers Museum (Check out the current events & exhibits)
• Greater Wellington - Parks and recreation  (get out into our regional parks & forests)
  

Around the Region

• Greater Wellington (WRC) (News, publications, timetables, forums...)
• Metlink (Public transport for the region)
  

City Services

• Sport, Recreation and Leisure Clubs Directory
• Recycling & refuse disposal
• Hutt Valley District Health Board (Your local health services)
• SeniorNet Hutt City (Learn how to use computers locally)
• Hutt Valley Agewell Together (support & activities for over 50s)
  

Local Area Sites

• Petone Herald Online (Read a free copy online)
• Wainuiomata.co.nz ('Everything you need to know about Wainui')
• Stokes Valley Online (Valley business, personalities, history...)
• Maungaraki.com (local events, history, and a forum for views)
• Normandale Times Online (Published by the Normandale Residents' Association)

 

Can’t find what you need? Ask a Librarian

 

Our Natural World

Learning more about our environment - walks, history, hazards and issues:

The City extends north along the banks of the Hutt River from Petone to Stokes Valley, and includes the hills and regional park to the West. To the east are Wainuiomata and Eastbourne with their native bush fringes. At the southern end is the harsh Cook Strait environment of Pencarrow and Baring Head.

 

HCC District Plan
Describes the permissible use of and protection given to sites in the city, including city and rural recreational areas:

• Sect.2, p.6-9  outlines local history & environment from a Tangata Whenua perspective
• Sect. 14E  describes ‘Significant Natural, Cultural and Archaeological Resources’
• Sect 14G  describes and lists notable trees.
  

Te Ara/ Encyclopedia of NZ
Images & stories relating to the Hutt:

• View of Port Nicholson (Heaphy's rather romantic perspective of 1839)
• The Wellington Fault (that runs right up the valley - it sometimes gives us a real shake up)
• The 1855 earthquake (the great quake that changed our landscape)
• Early Hutt River flood (floods - an issue from the beginning of European settlement that continues. Many strategies have been used to control or live with the river)

Greater Wellington (Regional Council)

A wealth of material relating to the local environment and its care such as:

• Hutt River valley history
• Environmental Monitoring (river levels, water quality, rainfall & other weather data)
• Plant and animal pests
• Hutt Valley groups   (local groups caring for the environment)
• Restoring natural areas
• The Feb 2004 Storm (impact of the most significant recent storm in the region)
• Hutt River Floodplain Management Plan, 2001 (all about how to live with the river)
• Flooding Hazard - Hutt Valley (summary pamphlet)
  

Other Web Sources of Local Interest:

• Lower Hutt weather statistics   (Trevor McGavin’s weather data)
• Matiu Somes Island   (DOC background on our island)
• Catchpool & Orongorongo Valleys (DOC guide to walks)
• Pencarrow Lakes (DOC study of these coastal lakes)
• Native Plants of Eastbourne Hills (DOC conservation guide)
• Waiwhetu Stream Action Plan, Nov 2000   (plan by the Stream Working Group)
  

Or dip into books like these from the Libraries:

The Hutt River: Te Awa-Kai-Rangi. J Easther, 1991

Magnitude Eight Plus,  R. Grapes, (the 1850s earthquake)

On Shaky Ground: a Geological Guide, G. Stevens, 1991

A Living NZ Forest, R. Brockie, 1992   (Orongorongo bush)