Nelson City Council is a

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local authority. It has its headquarters in

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History

Nelson City Council was created in 1992. Local governance of Nelson began with

Nelson Province Nelson Province was constituted in 1853 under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, and originally covered the entire upper South Island, including all of present-day Buller, Kaikoura, Marlborough, and Tasman districts, along with Nelson Ci ...

in 1853, which covered the entire upper South Island. Provinces were abolished in 1876 and replaced with smaller counties and boroughs, including a Nelson Borough. In the

1989 local government reforms The 1989 New Zealand local government reform was the most significant reform of local government in New Zealand in over a century. Some 850 local bodies were amalgamated into 86 local authorities, made up of regional and territorial levels. Backg ...

, Nelson was made part of the

Nelson-Marlborough Regional Council The Nelson-Marlborough Regional Council was one of 13 regional councils established through the passing of the Local Government Act 1987. The council was established in the 1989 local government reforms, but disestablished only three years later i ...

, then in 1992 that regional council was split into multiple parts, including today's Nelson City Council.

Scope

Nelson City Council's area covers the entire region of Nelson, covering 424 km². Its population was 53,082 in 2018. It borders the Tasman and Marlborough Districts. Councillors are elected for three year terms through

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Current councillors

The current

mayor of Nelson The mayor of Nelson is the head of the municipal government of Nelson, New Zealand, and presides over the Nelson City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a single transferable vote electoral system. The current mayor is Nick Smith, wh ...

is Nick Smith. Nelson City councillors for the 2022–2025 term are: * Matty Anderson * Matthew Benge * Trudie Brand *

Mel Courtney Melvyn Francis Courtney (born 2 October 1943) is a Nelson City Councillor and a former Labour then Independent Member of Parliament for Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand. Early life and family Courtney was born in Christchurch on 2 ...

* James Hodgson * Rohan O'Neill-Stevens * Kahu Paki Paki * Pete Rainey * Campbell Rollo * Rachel Sanson * Tim Skinner * Aaron Stallard

Work

Environmental programmes undertaken by the council include Nelson Nature and Project Maitai. In 2019, the Council declared climate change an emergency situation.

References

External links

Nelson City Council

Top of the South Maps
from Nelson City Council and

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Nelson Nature

Project Maitai
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