02/08/2026
We are very proud to be delivering the Port Underwood maintenance contract. Marlborough Roads is hosting drop in sessions for residents to meet the teams, ask questions, and learn more about the new approach to Sounds roading. We’re looking forward to meeting the Port Underwood community and supporting the Sounds into the future.
Marlborough Roads is running drop-in sessions in the Marlborough Sounds, beginning this week, for communities to meet their new maintenance contractors.
The way roads in the Sounds are managed and maintained changed on 1 July, with three new roading maintenance contractors each looking after a different zone.
These are Mike Edridge Contracting Limited (French Pass/Pelorus), Taylors Contracting Limited (Kenepuru) and R M Fissenden Contracting Limited (Port Underwood).
The drop-in sessions will give residents a chance to ask questions of their new contractors with representatives of Marlborough Roads also in attendance to assist with information. Council’s Solid Waste Manager Mark Lucas will also be there to discuss Remote Transfer Station sites.
The drop-in sessions are as follows:
📍French Pass/Pelorus
Contractor: Edridge Contracting Limited
Date: Friday 7 August
Location and time: Okiwi Bay Hall, 2pm to 3pm
📍Kenepuru
Contractor: Taylors Contracting Limited
Date: Wednesday 19 August
Location and time: Waitaria Bay Hall, 10.30am to 11.30am and Linkwater Hall, 2.30pm to 3.30pm
📍Port Underwood
Contractor: RMF Contracting Limited
Date: Friday 21 August
Location and time: Port Marlborough Pavilion Picton, 2pm to 3pm
If you have questions relating to the drop-in sessions, or regarding Sounds roading maintenance you can phone 03 520 8330. The Marlborough Roads Recovery Team continues to operate across the region to repair roads damaged in storm events.
📸: Mayor Nadine Taylor (centre) flanked by Marlborough Sounds Ward councillors from left, Raylene Innes, Malcolm Taylor and Barbara Faulls, with Marlborough Roads Manager Wayne Oldfield and the three new Sounds contractors
