Another week of Raglan talking to Raglan

Regional Council's Future Proof committee has a Where we will grow map showing where extra housing is planned and has planned for how most areas will cope with the extra people, but for Raglan only the location and water services have been planned. That seems to account for places such as Te Kauwhata, with less traffic, fewer tourists and a smaller population, getting an hourly bus, when Raglan is having to lobby Regional Council at their Regional Transport Committee Public Transport Subcommittee meeting at 1.15pm on Mon 14 September at 160 Ward St.Regional Council has also been talking about the cost and increasing frequency of climate change weather events, with graphs showing insurance costs and rainfall extremes.Electrification is a way to reduce carbon emissions. This graph from https://www.rewiring.nz/electrification-guides/get-started shows that, even using borrowed money, over $3,000 a year can be saved by electrifying an average house.