Annual Plan 2023/24

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What is an Annual Plan?

Every year Greater Wellington reviews what we said we were going to deliver in the 2021-31 Long Term Plan (LTP) and publishes that information to the community in an Annual Plan.

The Annual Plan outlines the changes to the rates and budget for that financial year from what we planned for in the Long-Term Plan, as well as changes in what we are delivering to the community.

What you need to know

The Annual Plan 2023/24 does not have any significant changes from what is in the 2021-31 Long Term Plan for this year – there are some minor changes however for the most part we are delivering what we said we would.

The last few years have been challenging for the whole country and our Region, faced with COVID-19 lockdowns, supply issues, labour shortages, inflation, and rising interest rates. To manage these pressures heading into the 2023/24 financial year, we are proposing to increase rates by an average of 17.8% across residential, business and rural. This is to ensure that we can continue to deliver improvements and services across the region to meet our social and climate goals.

Read more about your rates and what else you need to know about our proposed Annual Plan 2023/24.

What's happening in my area of the Region?

Look through our regional fact sheets to see the rates breakdown for your area, as well as some key projects that we are delivering in your area and across the Region:

• Hutt Valley
• Kāpiti Coast
• Porirua
• Wairarapa
• Wellington City

We want your feedback!

We understand there is a balance to find between affordability and best serving the needs of our environment and community both now and into the future, and we are always interested on whether you think we’ve hit the mark.

Looking beyond the 2023/24 year is also the development of our next Long Term Plan (2024-34), and this will be a great opportunity to reprioritise what’s important and how we spend money going forward.

You can provide feedback on Have Your Say from 3 April 2023 to 26 April 2023 (we have extended this from the original end date of 23 April).

Please let us know if you have any feedback on the Annual Plan 2023/24. This may relate to:

• Our approach to the proposed Annual Plan 2023/24
• Our priorities and/or how we spend our money
• Our upcoming 2024-34 Long Term Plan
• Anything else.

Register for an online discussion with Councillors

Come along and have a kōrero with your Councillors at our two online discussions!

• Wednesday 3 May @ 12:00 - 1:00pm
• Thursday 4 May @ 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Register for one of these sessions here: Online Discussion Forum with Greater Wellington Councillors - Virtual - Eventfinda
Or by emailing us at corporate.planning@gw.govt.nz

The topics of the online discussions will be:

1. The proposed Annual Plan 2023/24
2. The Significance and Engagement Policy review (you can give your feedback on this here)

Discussions between community and Councillors will be facilitated by Council officers. If there is a large turnout breakout rooms will be used to ensure everyone gets to have their say. Within the breakout rooms everyone will have a few minutes to give their opinion, and then the floor will be open for general discussion for the remaining time.

Ground rules will be set at the beginning of the online discussion to ensure that the kōrero is respectful and constructive. There is zero tolerance for inappropriate behaviour in the discussions.

What will we do with your feedback?

At the end of every week of the engagement, Council officers will prepare a thematic summary of submissions and any online discussions for Councillors. A full thematic summary will be provided to Council for its deliberations process.

Council will use this information to consider the adoption of the final Annual Plan 2023/24 on 29 June 2023.

We will post our final Annual Plan 2023/24 on the Greater Wellington website in July 2023.

For more information, please see the privacy statement here.

Any questions?

Please email corporate.planning@gw.govt.nz