Porirua City's Long-term Plan 2024–34
Welcome to our online hub. Here you can read the latest Long-term Plan (LTP) news and share your thoughts, so that we can work together to ensure our city is a great place to live, work and raise a family – now and in the future.
We consulted on our draft LTP with public drop in sessions between 26 March and 26 April 2024 and consultation is now closed.
You can find the draft LTP and other key and supporting info in the Important Documents section on this page or follow the links below.
Read the LTP consultation document: 2024-34 LTP consultation document
Read a summary of our key proposal: Kerbside recycling and rubbish proposal
Welcome to our online hub. Here you can read the latest Long-term Plan (LTP) news and share your thoughts, so that we can work together to ensure our city is a great place to live, work and raise a family – now and in the future.
We consulted on our draft LTP with public drop in sessions between 26 March and 26 April 2024 and consultation is now closed.
You can find the draft LTP and other key and supporting info in the Important Documents section on this page or follow the links below.
Read the LTP consultation document: 2024-34 LTP consultation document
Read a summary of our key proposal: Kerbside recycling and rubbish proposal
Planning for the future during challenging times
Porirua City, like all councils across the country, is experiencing a sharp increase in costs to deliver services and projects. Increases in the cost of energy, water supply, insurance and interest rates all mean that just providing our core services like rubbish, roading and pipes is costing more. Take a look at some of the challenges we're facing, what we plan to do about them and, what our key focus has been during the LTP planning process so far. You can read the full LTP discussion paper here.
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Rural rates increases without any correlated benefits
by Rachel Robinson, 5 months agoYear on year PCC has increased rates by double digits for those who live in rural areas.
Rural rate payers do not have access to the services which cost PCC 55% of their spending of gathered rates. Rural household install and maintain their own water, wastewater and often roading. In addition, they also pay for their refuse collection and pay for additional rural postal services. If PCC continues to require higher payments for rural rate payers, they will simply make rural living untenable in Porirua. Effectively they pay twice for every service. once through rates to PCC (which provides for... Continue reading
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by P1553D, 6 months agoEveryone is financially stretched as it is, and the local council wants to increase the rates by nearly 18%??? That is insane. Many families can barely afford the current rate, let alone a bump that massive. I don't for the life of me understand how a rate that high is justifiable.Thank you for your contribution!
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by CathyR, 6 months agoWe are all in the same boat trying to live how we always live without having to pay more to do so. This is just not possible in the world we live in today. I still want to turn on my tap and get good clean drinking water, I want my rubbish and recycling to be picked up, I want to be able to use the city's facilities without a major price hike to be able to use them, and I want our city to be the best it can be and right now it means that our rates need... Continue readingThank you for your contribution!
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by Plimmertonhomeowner, 6 months agoCentral government requires a 6.5% to 7.5% reduction in costs and the council should do the same. A17.5% rate increase is ridiculous and the council must cut back on all extraneous spending beyond the statutory requirements for services. No more wasteful spending on fripperies. The council is bloated and cost inefficient and can and must deliver core services with a rates cut.Thank you for your contribution!
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by PeteJ, 6 months agoI am totally opposed to water meters. It will cost the Council millions to install and does nothing to improve the poor state of pipe work which is the reason we run short over summer. It costs no more to reticulate 10,000 litres than 1000 litres so why should we pay by volume used? This is just another way to create an income stream for Council and we will all end up using less but paying more just like the Kapiti Coast. -
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by Peter, 7 months agoTwo observations:
What happened to all the ratepayers' cash raised over the past 15-20 years for depreciating our water assets? Did Porirua CC spend the cash on non-water items?
Why keep wasting cash on non-essential things, instead of focussing completely on essential services such as water and roads?
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Transposing costs and potential displacement impacts
by Charmaine , 7 months agoTēnā koe,
Ka nui te mihi to Ngāti Toa Rangatira as the custodians of the whenua, Te Awarua-ō-Porirua and Te Moana-ō-Raukawa. Kei Hongoeka Bay ahau e noho ana.
It is understood that the 3 Waters initiative is stood down, and statutory responsibilities have been shifted to local authorities in addition to meeting all the legislative requirements. That is a brutal hospital pass onto all councils and extremely hard on PCC kaimahi.
It is universally understood climate events occur. Many of us are living near slips, and have been affected by flooding, and witnessed the structural harm from king tides. Huge... Continue reading
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No more rates increases for 2024
by Cibyca, 7 months agoWe are already paying a lot of rates. Whatever excuse u say to increase this to 17.5 percent is unjustifiable
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by Y R, 9 months agoWhat is the 18% figure referring to? Surely that's not the average rate rise for this year. I am all for well-funded public services, but our rates are so far out of whack in Porirua that I'm not sure this is the answer.Thank you for your contribution!
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LTP Timeline
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26 March to 26 April: Formal consultation
Porirua City's Long-term Plan 2024–34 has finished this stageThe draft 2024-34 Long-term is closed for consultation.
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14 to 15 May 2024: Hearings
Porirua City's Long-term Plan 2024–34 has finished this stageHearing of submissions.
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6 June 2024: Deliberations
Porirua City's Long-term Plan 2024–34 has finished this stageDeliberations provide an opportunity to consider community feedback on what is proposed and make implementation decisions as part of the LTP.
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27 June 2024: Adoption
Porirua City's Long-term Plan 2024–34 has finished this stageThe 2024-34 Long-term Plan for Porirua City is adopted.
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2024-34 LTP Adopted
Porirua City's Long-term Plan 2024–34 is currently at this stageThe 2024-34 Long-term Plan for Porirua was adopted by Council on 27 June 2024. This will be published on the Council's main website in August 2024.
Warm Pacific greetings – watch a video and have your say (in eight Pacific languages)
- Tālofa lava. We’re setting the budget for Porirua for the next 10 years and want to know what you think. Consultation is open on our draft Long-Term Plan (or LTP), which sets out what we plan to do and how we’ll pay for it.
- Malo ni. We’re setting the budget for Porirua for the next 10 years and want to know what you think. Consultation is open on our draft Long-Term Plan (or LTP), which sets out what we plan to do and how we’ll pay for it.
- Fakaalofa lahi atu. We’re setting the budget for Porirua for the next 10 years and want to know what you think. Consultation is open on our draft Long-Term Plan (or LTP), which sets out what we plan to do and how we’ll pay for it.
- Kia ōrana. We’re setting the budget for Porirua for the next 10 years and want to know what you think. Consultation is open on our draft Long-Term Plan (or LTP), which sets out what we plan to do and how we’ll pay for it.
LTP consultation events
Important documents
- Long-term Plan 2024-34 Consultation Document (2.71 MB) (pdf)
- Long-term Plan 2024 submission form (152 KB) (pdf)
- Non-Financial Supporting Information for the proposed Long-term Plan 2024-34 (2.81 MB) (pdf)
- Financial Supporting Information for the proposed Long-term Plan 2024-34 (3.2 MB) (pdf)
- LTP consultation document Key Proposal.pdf (2.57 MB) (pdf)
FAQs
- Why is this LTP so challenging?
- Why are our rates so high?
- What is Council doing to save money?
- How many people are currently employed by Council?
- Why don’t you get rid of staff to save costs?
- Why don’t we just have fewer councillors to save costs?
- What does having a balanced budget mean?
- What is Council doing about climate related hazards?
Important links
- Maungaroa 2050 - Māori Strategy
- Ola Kamataga – Beginning of Life Porirua City Pacific Strategy 2024-2027
- Long-term plan 2024-34 direction - Council meeting 14 December 2023
- Government announcement to repeal Three Waters legislation
- Council wrap up 14 December 2023
- How rates are decided
- Water reform annoucement
- Council approves six-year waste management and minimisation plan
Our challenge ahead short video
- Like all local councils, every three years we prepare a Long-term Plan (LTP), including a 30-year infrastructure plan, outlining what we plan to achieve over the next 30 years, and how we’ll pay for it. In the years between Long-term Plans, we develop an Annual Plan that sets out what we want to achieve, and the budget for the year ahead.