Love This Place: 2024 -2034 Long Term Plan

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Feedback has now closed for our Love This Place: 2024-34 Long Term Plan consultation.

Love this place we sure do! As a council, we Love This Place and that means protecting our environment and ensuring the wellbeing of our people. So when we talk Long Term Plan (LTP) think of it as Love This Place!

Consultation was open from Monday 18 March - Friday 26 April 2024.

Hearings and Deliberations

Hearings are being held on Tuesday 14 May. 9:00am in the Council Chambers to allow those who would like to speak to Council on their submission to do so. Council will then deliberate on all feedback received Thursday 16 May, 9:00am in the Council Chambers.

Both Hearings and deliberations are public Council meetings, and anyone is welcome to come and listen those who are speaking and to Council's deliberations. To read the agenda for these meetings click here. Currently as our main reception area is closed for renovations, please use the small door to the right of the main entrance.

Love This Place

Please check out our consultation document Love This Place to read about the challenges we are facing and what we are proposing for our district for the next 10 years. If you want to know more check out of LTP Supporting information documents available on the right hand side of this page.

You can check out what your rates would look like for 2024/25 with our proposals with our rates calculator.


Feedback has now closed for our Love This Place: 2024-34 Long Term Plan consultation.

Love this place we sure do! As a council, we Love This Place and that means protecting our environment and ensuring the wellbeing of our people. So when we talk Long Term Plan (LTP) think of it as Love This Place!

Consultation was open from Monday 18 March - Friday 26 April 2024.

Hearings and Deliberations

Hearings are being held on Tuesday 14 May. 9:00am in the Council Chambers to allow those who would like to speak to Council on their submission to do so. Council will then deliberate on all feedback received Thursday 16 May, 9:00am in the Council Chambers.

Both Hearings and deliberations are public Council meetings, and anyone is welcome to come and listen those who are speaking and to Council's deliberations. To read the agenda for these meetings click here. Currently as our main reception area is closed for renovations, please use the small door to the right of the main entrance.

Love This Place

Please check out our consultation document Love This Place to read about the challenges we are facing and what we are proposing for our district for the next 10 years. If you want to know more check out of LTP Supporting information documents available on the right hand side of this page.

You can check out what your rates would look like for 2024/25 with our proposals with our rates calculator.


  • 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!

  • 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.


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