Long Term Plan 2024 - 2034. How we plan to maintain and improve things for you

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Our Infrastructure Strategy sets out the planning, provision, and management of infrastructure over the next 30 years.

Infrastructure means pipes, treatment plants, pump stations, roads, footpaths, recreation facilities, libraries and other assets that are essential for us to live, move around, do business and play.

Simply put, it impacts our lives daily. Whether you’re making your morning cup of coffee, driving to work, or playing with your tamariki at the playground – it’s your rates that make this happen.

We've got four key goals:

Maintain the infrastructure and services we provide as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Provide the infrastructure required to support a growing community.
Identify and plan for potential changes to levels of service in the future.
Continually improve the information about our infrastructure particularly asset condition, performance, asset efficiency and the impact of technology.

What we plan to deliver

We've committed to a significant capital programme to deliver the required Infrastructure at the appropriate times and places across the District.

To ensure Council is able to deliver the capital programme, Council has invested in programmes and training to improve the deliverability of the projects we deliver. This has included:

Undertaking a review of the organisation to ensure resources (including staff) are allocated appropriately and the establishment of a team with oversight of capital programme assurance and delivery.
Adopting a project methodology and trained staff in the methodology.
Invested time at the outset to understand the full scope of our projects to improve our efficiency of execution.
Prioritised our project portfolio against our strategic objectives to ensure we’re delivering the right projects at the right time.
Reviewing the way we procure and deliver projects, including supplier panels and improved project governance.

Adjustments have been made to the planned capital programme that reduce expenditure in the early years and move it into later years. This reflects possible delays that are common in the early stages of projects while they are designed, community feedback is sought, and consents are obtained. The main purpose of the adjustments is to ensure budgets for interest, debt and depreciation are realistic.

Refer to the Capital Expenditure by Activity graph in our consultation document to see the capital programme over the next 10 years.

There is however a high level of uncertainty associated with this.

30 years is a significant period of time. We expect to see changes during this period to both infrastructure expenditure and community expectations. Council is positioned to respond to these changes.

Read our Infrastructure Strategy.