Find out the latest meeting agendas and minutes, contact details, decisions and other information from the Regional Committee. The Regional Committee is a committee of the Canterbury Regional Council and includes representatives from Environment Canterbury, the territorial authorities, rūnanga and Ngāi Tahu, as well as one member from each of the zone committees.
Upcoming meetings
The Regional Committee meets each month. The next regional committee meeting:
Activities and actions
The Regional Zone Committee has been getting through a huge volume of work as committee members work to understand the key regional issues for water management in Canterbury.
The Regional Implementation Programme (RIP) was prepared by the Regional Committee following an engagement process including public and stakeholder meetings, and feedback from people and organisations with an interest in water management.
Environment Canterbury received and endorsed the Regional Implementation Programme at its council meeting on 31 May 2012.
The RIP identifies four priority areas which need to be addressed at a regional level to meet the targets in the Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS):
- Kaitiakitanga
- Ecosystem health and biodiversity
- Land use and water quality
- Regional infrastructure.
The Regional Committee has four working groups, which report back to the full committee, to look into these priority areas.
More recently, the Regional Committee has been considering issues of region-wide importance including the role infrastructure can play in delivering the targets outlined in the CWMS.
The Regional Committee has also been looking at regionally significant features in each zone and considering how to best manage them.