Ngā Ekenga Making Progress

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The Annual Plan 2022-2023 was adopted by Council on 30 June 2022. 


We’re making progress: here’s our plan for the year ahead

Last year, we developed our 10-Year Plan for the decade 2021-2031 alongside our community – we heard your vision and aspirations for our city, and we also acknowledged the challenges we’re facing together. We built a plan to get the basics right, doubling our investment in infrastructure over the next 10 years while continuing to manage our finances sensibly and fairly.

In our 10-Year Plan, together

The Annual Plan 2022-2023 was adopted by Council on 30 June 2022. 


We’re making progress: here’s our plan for the year ahead

Last year, we developed our 10-Year Plan for the decade 2021-2031 alongside our community – we heard your vision and aspirations for our city, and we also acknowledged the challenges we’re facing together. We built a plan to get the basics right, doubling our investment in infrastructure over the next 10 years while continuing to manage our finances sensibly and fairly.

In our 10-Year Plan, together we identified the following six key priority areas as a focus for 2021-31:

  • Whakangao i ngā poupou hapori | Investing in infrastructure
  • Hei Āhuru Mōwai mō te Katoa | Increasing housing supply
  • Tiaki Taiao | Caring for and protecting our environment
  • Taunaki Ōhanga Auaha, Tāone Whakapoapoa | Supporting and innovative, agile economy and attractive city
  • Tūhono Hapori | Connecting communities
  • Whakauka Ahumoni | Financial sustainability

This year, we need to develop the Annual Plan for the year ahead, which is based on the 10-Year Plan. We’re also engaging with you on our District Plan, which is a separate plan with a focus on land use and urban development. You can learn more about the Council planning cycle and the different types of plans online at hutt.city/planning.

This year we’re planning on keeping it simple: we’re sticking to the plan laid out last year, and we’re making progress on getting the basics right. This is a guide to the key projects we’ll be working on during the year. If you’re interested in more detail, you can read the full draft Annual Plan at hutt.city/annualplan2022.

You can also see the impact on your property's rates by using our online rates calculator: hutt.city/ratescalculator.

Because we're sticking to the path laid out in our 10-Year Plan, we're not formally consulting on this draft Annual Plan. However, if you would like to make a written comment, please email haveyoursay@huttcity.govt.nz. All collection of submissions are in line with the Privacy Act 2020. For more details on how Council uses the data it collects please see our Privacy Policy.

Feedback closes 5pm Tuesday 3 May 2022

Consultation has concluded
  • Rebuilding Naenae Pool

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    The next year will be a big one for Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre – it’s the year we’ll see the majority of the construction work undertaken and completed. We’ve committed $26.7 million to this project in the year ahead, to bring the Naenae community and wider region’s pool users one huge step closer to a brand-new, world-class facility on their doorstep. The government’s COVID Response and Recovery Fund has also granted $10.8 million to Naenae Pool this year. We’re also spending another $1.2 million on the Naenae town centre project.

  • Redeveloping Queen St in Wainuiomata

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    We’re progressing our ambitious plan to refresh and rejuvenate the heart of Wainuiomata with the Queen Street redevelopment, where we’ll spend $5.5 million this year.

  • Moving forward with Tupua Horo Nuku

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    In the next year, we’re planning to complete construction of the first two bays of Tupua Horo Nuku, Sunshine Bay and Windy Point, to the tune of around $16.8 million. The government’s COVID Response and Recovery Fund has granted $9 million to this project this year, and Waka Kotahi is contributing $4.59 million. While there’s a risk of weather events affecting timeframes, we’re engineering a lot of this project offsite to help mitigate this. We’ll also finalise the detailed design for the remaining bays.

  • Connecting our city to our awa with RiverLink

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    RiverLink is continuing to make good progress towards making Lower Hutt more resilient, more connected, and more vibrant. In the year ahead, we’re expecting a Resource Management Act consent decision which will allow us to then engage with potential contractors and move our planning to the next stage, with $15 million budgeted in 2022-23.

  • Investing in our key wastewater infrastructure in Moera and Seaview

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    To improve the resilience of our wastewater network and reduce the risk of wastewater ending up where it shouldn’t, we’re duplicating a section of pipe between Barber Grove and Seaview. The current pipe carries about 80% of the wastewater from Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt, serving around 150,000 residents.

    More broadly, we’ve budgeted to spend $48.7 million across our three waters infrastructure (drinking water, stormwater, and wastewater) this year. This includes $2.5 million to upgrade our water supply reservoirs and $700,000 to upgrade the seismic strengthening of critical drinking water pipelines. We’re also spending $6 million upgrading the rest of the water networks – on top of regularly scheduled maintenance.

  • Investing in the future of the Dowse

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    We’re spending $566,000 on switching the heating source from gas to a heat pump, to reduce carbon emissions and make progress on our plan to phase out gas across Council facilities. We’ve also committed $823,000 on upgrading the collection storage, to protect the precious taonga housed in the Dowse’s collection.

  • Petone Wharf

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    In the coming year we are going to work with Heritage NZ to progress Petone Wharf's refurbishment, and have set aside $7 million for this work. We’re also spending $206,000 to further develop the Petone 2040 Spatial Plan, and $1.5 million to begin refurbishing Petone Library.

  • Installing more electric vehicle chargers

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    We’ll also be implementing and delivering on the commitments we’ve made in our Carbon Reduction Plan, and the city-wide climate action pathway. We’re spending $381,000 on electric vehicle charging stations across Lower Hutt, and between July and September we’ll add 16 new stations at various locations. EECA are also part-funding this project with $278,000.