Our Vision

Our Vision is to facilitate sustainable development in the Canterbury region.

Te huawaere i te kauneke tauwhiro i Waitaha.

This means: 

• Ensuring environmental sustainability
• Enabling community aspirations to be met
• Recognising and providing for cultural values
• Supporting economic growth

What do we do?

We are your regional council, working to manage the air, land and water so that it can be enjoyed by everybody. 

We work in partnership with the communities of Canterbury to promote the sustainable management of our resources. Sustainable management means that we use innovative, cost effective and technically excellent methods and ensure that our decision making is based on the highest quality information. 

By managing the environment sustainably, our region’s economic, social and cultural wellbeing can flourish.

That means you have:

• good quality air and water

• an efficient and accessible public transport system

• efficient energy production resources

• effective legislature around the use, storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous substances

• safe use of the region's harbours and a coastal environment which is preserved and protected

• assistance to control animal and plant pests

• safeguarded landscape, ecology and heritage values

• adequate preparation for civil defence emergencies to lessen the consequences of natural hazards.