Love This Place: 2024 -2034 Long Term Plan
Council adopts plans for the next 10 years
During 2023 and 2024, we prepared our Long Term Plan for 2024-34, and we asked you what you thought about our plan through the Love This Place consultation document during March and April 2024.
On 27 June 2024, we adopted our Long Term Plan. It’s our key planning document that outlines our work programme and strategic direction for the 2024 to 2034 ten year period. This came into effect on 1 July 2024. 2024-34 Long Term Plan
You told us what you think | Kua kōrero mai koe ōu whakaaro, tēnā rawa atu koe
Thanks for providing your feedback on our plans for 2024-34. We read and listened to all feedback at a hearing in May 2024, and then made decisions on our final plan. You can view our completed long term plan document on this page.
If you requested to be notified of the decisions about your feedback, keep an eye on your inbox or mailbox – we will be notifying you individually of the outcome of your feedback in July 2024.
Our Long Term Plan 2024-34 | Tō Mātou Mahere Roa 2024-34
During the feedback period we received some great suggestions and comments, which really helped with our decision-making. After listening to everyone’s thoughts and ideas, we made some key decisions. You can read about the key decisions below:
Rates increases
We proposed in our Love This Place consultation document that rates would need to increase 17.4% in year 1 (2024/25) of the Long Term Plan just to continue to provide the services at the standard our community currently expect. This was largely due to the impacts of inflation, interest and depreciation (all things outside of our control). We also needed to upgrade our wastewater treatment (with significant cost in replacing the Paeroa wastewater treatment plant) to ensure we meet growth and increasing central government regulations.
Western Plains Primary Stopbanks
We proposed that to maintain the current level of service of Land Drainage for the Western Plains Drainage District we would need to increase how much we top up our stopbanks to respond to climate change. Our community agreed with our plans and this work is scheduled to begin in year 10 of our long term plan. We currently maintain these stopbanks to 3.0 metres and we will slowly increase this to RL 4.0 metres in height (Tararu datum).
Waihī Art Centre and Museum
Council owns the Waihī Art Centre and Museum building, we proposed in our Love This Place consultation document that our preferred option was to bring this building up to required minimum (34% of code) seismic strengthening work. Our communities agreed with us and this work is scheduled for year 10 of our long term plan, this is in anticipation that there will be a greater allowance of time to complete this work by central government. Council will continue to maintain this building in the interim which includes a replacement of the roof in 2024/25.
We also adopted the following…
2024/25 Fees and charges
We asked for feedback from the community on our proposed fees and charges for 2024/25 these were adopted alongside our 2024-34 LTP and can be viewed here 2024/25 Fees and Charges.
Rates Remission and Postponement Policies
We proposed some tweaks to our Rates Remission and Postponement Policies, these policies were adopted alongside our 2024-34 LTP and can be viewed here Rates Remission and Postponement Policies
Development Contributions Policy
We also reviewed our Development Contributions Policy and this was adopted alongside our 2024-34 Long Term Plan. The updated Policy can be viewed here Development Contributions Policy.
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Stop-by for Stopbanks
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Way to go Waitakaruru School!Thanks for hosting our Stop-by for Stopbanks Long Term Plan kōrero and sausage sizzle. We were thrilled to see how many people took the time to pop in. Having HDC staff and Councillors on hand meant robust, meaningful and informative conversations. -
A Night at the Museum
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Oh what a night! Night at the Museum that is! We are still buzzing from the turnout to this event. The weather cleared at 4pm and with Waihi Drama characters in place, the sausages sizzling and Coromandel's CFM on the mic, we opened the doors. Waihī, you did us proud! Thank you everyone who turned up!
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Raising the primary stopbanks for Western Plains Drainage District
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We have proposed three options for how we maintain the primary stopbanks in the Western Plains Drainage District (those in the F1 & F2 zones). Please read the full issues and proposals included in our Love This Place consultation document.
There is good news we have been able to update the costs and impacts on rates from what we originally included in our consultation document. The updated estimates are based on recent work that has been undertaken on our stopbanks.
The options and the updated costs/rate impacts are shown in the table below.
Option 1: Status quo – keep maintaining primary stopbanks of RL 3.0 metres in height. Option 2: Raise the primary stopbanks to RL 4.0 metres in height. (Our preferred option) Option 3: Raise the primary stopbanks to RL 4.5 metres in height.
Cost
$9.0 million
Cost
$14.5 million
Cost
$22 million
Impact on rates
- Western Plains drainage district
F1 (80 ratepayers)
F2 (41 ratepayers)
Approximately $2,100 annually. Actual impact determined by land value.
- All ratepayers approximately $4.39.
Impact on rates
- Western Plains drainage district
F1 (80 ratepayers)
F2 (41 ratepayers)
Approximately $3,400 annually. Actual impact determined by land value.
- All ratepayers approximately $7.25.
Impact on rates
- Western Plains drainage district
F1 (80 ratepayers)
F2 (41 ratepayers)
Approximately $5,200 annually. Actual impact determined by land value.
- All ratepayers approximately $11.21.
Our proposals will affect all ratepayers differently. The impacts above are based on the average land value of all the properties in the F1 & F2 flood protection areas, which is $885,000. If your property’s land value is less (or more) than that, then the impact will be proportionally less or more.
For example, if your land value is $345,000 then the impact of Option 1 would be approximately $820 per annum.
If your land value is $5,500,000 then the impact of Option 1 would be approximately $13,000 per annum.
You can use our rates calculator to see what your chosen option means for different types of properties.
