Annual Plan and Local Water Done Well 2025

We want your feedback on our proposed Annual Plan for 2025/26.

The services we provide – like rubbish, recycling, roads, parks, pools, libraries, and especially infrastructure – are costing more than ever, and rates in Porirua are at an all-time high (with a 17.5% increase last year and an average rates increase of 18.4% across the Wellington region). We’ve managed to cut this year’s planned rates increases from a new starting point of 15%, down to an average of 6.75%.

After making cuts and finding savings, our new starting point for rates increases for 2025/26 is 6.75%. We have come up with some other ways to reduce costs, which include higher increases to some fees and cutting some grants or funding and we want to hear your views on the following proposals:

• Increasing entry fees at Cannons Creek Pool
• Raising fees for building consents
• Increasing paid parking by 50 cents per hour
• Stopping the Chamber of Commerce grant and cutting the Event Investment Programme funding (this would not impact popular Council-run events like Waitangi Day or Anzac Day or the funding already allocated for Te Kiwa Nui Festival).

Local Water Done Well

Under Local Water Done Well, the Government has said the way we manage water services (drinking water, wastewater and stormwater) in Aotearoa needs to change. This is the most important decision we’ll make for our city in decades – we need to change the way water services are delivered in our region, and we want to hear your views.

Porirua City Council is working together with Hutt City, Upper Hutt City, Wellington City and Greater Wellington Regional Council and with mana whenua partners to find the best solution for water services.

We're proposing two options for the future of water services in Porirua and our region. We want to hear what you think as it will have an impact on our city, your rates and the way you pay for water.

Option 1: Multi-council-owned water organisation (Council’s preferred option).

Option 2: Modified version of the current Wellington Water model (with a new planning, regulatory and accountability framework).

Read or download the 2025/26 Consultation Document here.

Submissions close midnight Sunday 20 April 2025

You can find copies of this proposal at all Porirua City libraries, and at our front counter at Customer Services, Porirua City Council, 16 Cobham Court, Porirua 5022.

You can have your say in a number of ways:

• make an online submission at the bottom of this web page. You can also download a submission form from the right-hand side menu, under Consultation documents.
• by email to: submissions@poriruacity.govt.nz with “Annual Plan 2025/26 ” in the subject line.
• by hand at:
  • front counter, 16 Cobham Court, Porirua City
  • any of our libraries
• by post:
  Freepost 4517
  Annual Plan 2025/26
  Porirua City Council
  PO Box 50218
  Porirua City 5240

Your submission is subject to meeting the moderation criteria – you can find out more here.

Your privacy
All submissions are public information. This supports our drive to be as transparent as possible, but if there are any personal details you don’t want made public, please let us know.

We collect demographic data to help us identify whether we are reaching the voices from all areas of our community. Providing demographic information is optional.

Want to know more?
If you have any questions, or would like more information, please email us at submissions@poriruacity.govt.nz or call on (04) 237 5089.