Have your say
Let us know your thoughts on alcohol licensing fees.
Should we maintain a goal of recovering 90% of alcohol licensing costs through fees, or change to a goal of recovering 100%?
Full details are available in the Statement of Proposal.
Consultation closes 5pm Sunday 25 August
Privacy Statement
We require your name, contact details and the suburb you live in as part of your feedback. All feedback will be published on our website with your name. All other personal or commercially sensitive information (including your email address and suburb) will be removed. Publishing feedback in full supports a transparent process and will assist in the public hearing process.
If you have specific reasons for not wanting your feedback publicly released, please contact alcohol.feedback@huttcity.govt.nz.
The feedback form asks for the suburb you live in to better understand how you are impacted by the changes happening in your suburb.
Public Hearings
The feedback form also asks if you want to present directly to Councillors at a hearing. If you state that you do want to present to Councillors, you will be contacted by council staff to arrange a time for you to speak.
Feedback will be considered by Council regardless of whether you wish to present your views at a hearing or not. Final decisions will be made in September 2024 and the Alcohol Fees Bylaw will be adopted in October 2024.
Storing personal information
Council stores information with reasonable safeguards against loss and disclosure. Reasonable safeguards include physical and technological protections. Personal information is accessible to staff who have a legitimate reason to access it. Council has a code of conduct where unauthorised disclosure of confidential information or records in accordance with the provisions of the Public Records Act, which includes the authorised destruction of records once they are no longer required to be kept for legislative compliance or business purposes.
Access to your information
The information you provide will be accessible only by Council staff and is not shared with any third party. You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at policy@huttcity.govt.nz, or 04 570 6666, or 30 Laings Road, Lower Hutt 5010.