Long-term Plan 2021-51
Our Long-term Plan (LTP) outlines to our community how we intend to invest for the next 30+ years. Any year there is not a Long-term Plan review and we have significant projects that require public feedback, we will develop an Annual Plan.
We started work on the LTP for 2021-51 early in 2020. In preparation we looking at how we’d performed, efficiencies we could make to our existing budgets, drafting strategic priorities and listening to people who live and who operate businesses in the city. We knew it wasn’t a ‘business as usual’ LTP for many reasons, including but not exclusive to higher levels of population growth, pressing infrastructure issues (such as the condition of our water network and its contribution to the condition of our habour, the housing crisis, the impacts of climate change, and effects Covid-19 continues to have on how we live and work.
This LTP was developed with these challenges, and how to address them, front of mind so that our vision, that Porirua City will be a great place to live, work, and raise a family, is a reality.
Our decisions have been influenced by a number of factors including responding to clear messages we received during consultation about where investment should be focused - so that this LTP addresses these challenges and provides good quality services and robust infrastructure without putting undue burden on ratepayers.
Download the LTP 2021-51 here
Taking a 30 year view
In this LTP we’ve extended our previous 20 year focus to 30 years. That is so our financial planning aligns with the timeframes for our Growth, and Infrastructure strategies and the District Plan to ensure that growth is paid for equitably and fairly between those involved.
What we did
| When | What |
|---|---|
| December 2020 | Agreed the focus areas and key themes to be included in the consultation document. Adopted the Revenue and Financing Policy; Rating Policy; Rates, Remissions & Postponement Policy, and the Significance and Engagement Policy. |
| March 2021 | Consultation document released to the community outlining key proposals for feedback |
| April 2021 | Consultation closes after 30 successful engagement events. 334 submissions received. |
| May 2021 | The Council listens to feedback from submitters at the formal hearings. |
| June 2021 | The Councillors considered all feedback received from formal submissions – both written and oral, and at engagement events. They deliberated and then made recommendations on key proposals and other items to be incorporated into the final Long-term Plan 2021-2051 |
| 29 June 2021 | Council adopted the Long-term Plan 2021-51. |
| Late July 2021 | Long-term Plan 2021-51 is made available to the public. |
The Results
We received 334 formal submissions as well as lots of face-to face feedback at our 30 community events and meetings. Thanks again to those who participated.
The City's Plan
Our Long-term Plan can be found on the link below. This tells the story of why we are focusing on the areas we are, what you told us, what was agreed, as well as setting out all the detail of the Financial and Infrastructure strategies, the Revenue and Financing Policy, and the Significance and Engagement Policy. All files are in pdf format and optimised for fast downloading. If you require a high quality printed copy, please contact us.
Download the LTP 2021-51 here
We kicked off this process with our Council in 2016 and there’s been a lot of kōrero with people and businesses who live and operate in the city. This plan is one of the most important for our community and a lot of work goes into making sure we keep everyone informed and enable people to share their views.
Taking a 20 year view
Unlike previous long-term plans that had a horizon of 10 years, this Long-term Plan is the first where we have taken a 20-year view in planning for our city’s future.
This was done to better align with our Infrastructure Strategy and ensure that growth is paid for by the developers where appropriate, rather than residents.
What we did
| When | What |
| October 2017 | Formal consultation on the Revenue and Financing Policy, Rating Policy and Significance and Engagement Policy. |
| December 2017 | Policies adopted. |
| December 2017 | The Council reconfirmed their support for the city’s four strategic priorities. |
| March 2018 | Consultation document released to the community outlining key proposals for feedback. |
| April 2018 | Consultation closes after 17 successful engagement events. |
| May 2018 | The Council listens to feedback from submitters at the formal hearings. |
| June 2018 | The Council discuss the feedback received from formal submissions, the community panel, and at engagement events. |
| Late June 2018 | Council adopts the Long-term Plan 2018-38. |
| Late July 2018 | Long-term Plan 2018-38 is made available to the public. |
The Results
We received 388 formal submissions and another 388 responses from our community panel as well as lots of face-to face feedback at many community events and meetings. Thanks again to those who participated.
Take a look at the summary of our key decisions.
The City's Plan
Our Long-term Plan can be found on the link below. Included in this document are the Financial and Infrastructure strategies, the Revenue and Financing Policy, and the Significance and Engagement Policy. All files are in pdf format and optimised for fast downloading. If you require a high quality printed copy, please contact us.
- Long-term Plan 2018-38 (19MB pdf)
Document sections
- Introduction
- Porirua's story
- Vision and priorities
- What you said, how we responded
- Rates and rate increases
- Community partnerships
- Services for our city
- Significant assumptions
- Financial strategy
- Infrastructure strategy
- Revenue and financing policy
- Significance and engagement policy
- The numbers
- Fees and charges for 2018/19
- Definitions
- Contact details
- Independent Auditor's Report
Other plans and policies
Rates policies
The funding impact statement details the different types of rating mechanisms used across the city to collect rates. The key changes to this statement have been to equalise the Shopping Plaza Differential with the Business Differential, stop the City Centre Development Rate charged on 56 properties in the city centre and instead introduce a City Development Rate, and lower the Business Differential over six years from 3.5 to 3.1. It was also decided to consult on retaining the Hongoeka Community Differential at 0.7 as part of the Long-term Plan proper.
We also updated the Rates Remission and Postponement Policy that details the different circumstances that rates can be considered for remission or postponement. The two main changes to this Policy was the addition of a rates remission to incentivise residential development in the city centre, along with some changes to the business and economic development remission to clarify the types of rates that can be remitted.
Development Contributions Policy
Over the next 20 years, many parts of our city are expected to grow significantly and we want to make sure that everyone pays their fair share toward infrastructure and other costs that arise as our city grows.
The key changes to the 2018 Development Contributions are:
- Updated definition and commencement date of residential services for retirement homes/village
- Removal of the transition provisions that addressed the transition from the financial contributions regime.
- Removal of the reassessment clause provisions to provide certainty for larger developments.
- Change to the Development Contribution charges (updated to reflect the discussion at the City Direction Committee meeting on 7 June 2018) as the base 2018 Development Contribution charges. This includes combining catchment areas Whitby High Level Reservoir and Urban Duck Creek Greenfield 14 Reserve in one catchment area as the total Development Contribution charges for these two areas is now proposed to be the same.
- Phase-in the approach for introducing development charges as follows with 25% of the phased-in development contribution charges payable at the consent approval stage and the balance of the development contribution charges payable at the time of the issuing of 224 certificates. If the consent lapses then the development contributions deposit would be refunded.
See our Development Contributions page for full details.
Asset management plan summaries
To complement the Infrastructure Strategy and provide a little more detail on our assets, we’ve put together summaries of our asset management plans for you to read (all in pdf format).
Previous Long-term Plans
You can view our previous Long-term Plans:
- Long-term Plan 2018-38 (19MB pdf)
- Long-term Plan 2015-25 (5.25MB pdf)
- Long Term Plan 2012–22 (2.8MB pdf)
- Long Term Plan 2009–19 (4.9MB pdf)
