In this region we have over 500,000 people who call this place home. It’s a diverse area, both in landscape and communities – we cover hillside farms, coastal baches, suburban homes and the busy, compact capital city.

We all want to live in region with a dynamic economy, resilient infrastructure and a natural environment we can all enjoy. Our plans are about making sure that can happen.

Every three years we update our Long Term Plan to ensure that we are still on track and that our priorities and goals are aligned with our vision of creating a Greater Wellington for all of us to live, work and play in.

This plan is one of the ways we tell the story about our direction, the outcomes we’re planning to achieve and how they’ll impact the region, and how we plan to get there. It’s about the key issues, major projects and priorities over the next 10 years, and how they’ll be funded.

We’re responsible for taking the lead on some of the big issues that affect us as a region, including:

Running the public transport system – the trains, the buses, the ferries – that helps us move around. Our aim is to create an integrated public transport system that’s as good as any in the world.

We care for the region’s water, land and air, making them safe for our everyday enjoyment and making sure they’re sustainable for the future. This means we look after the region’s water supplies, protect our biodiversity through pest and weed control, provide flood protection, and soil and water conservation.

Our natural and cultural heritage is protected and nurtured by us through our work in regional parks, forests and tracks. We care for more than 15,000 hectares of regional parks and other public land so that you can enjoy it.

And we provide regional leadership, looking for opportunities to promote and grow our region so we have an economically sustainable and vibrant future.

We’re interested in your thoughts, because we have the job of looking after this region, partnering with your city or district council, central government and other agencies to make it extraordinary.