Environmental Health Bylaw 2024

The Environmental Health Bylaw is designed to enhance the safety and welfare of the public by minimising nuisance and adverse environmental health effects caused to the community. Having the bylaw in place means that Council can regulate mobile trading, our alcohol ban areas, solvent abuse, untidy private properties and disused materials or things within the Invercargill City District

Council is proposing some changes to the bylaw, largely due to community feedback we sought earlier this year regarding Food Trucks. We are also taking this opportunity to tidy up other aspects of the bylaw.

When Council asked for feedback about food trucks, we heard that they play an important part in activating our spaces and places and contribute to He Ngākau Aroha - Our City With Heart. We received some great suggestions from the community about where they would like to see food trucks more often, which has helped us create a list of pre-approved locations across our district. On the flip side, we also learned that some of the rules around food trucks, particularly how close they can be to other vendors limits the places that food trucks can operate from, this has prompted us to propose some changes to the bylaw to ensure we can see them popping up the locations that they are most wanted. Council have also reviewed the application process.

Regarding the other sections of the bylaw, Council is not proposing any changes to the Alcohol Ban area, we have added a map to the document so it is clearer to readers where the boundaries lie.

We have also proposed some changes to the sections regarding untidy property to make it clear what Council consider to be unused or abandoned items, this section also includes abandoned vehicles.

You can review Council's proposed changes here,

Let us know what you think of our draft Environmental Health Bylaw by 27 September