Shape your city centre
As big infrastructure investment starts to happen in our city, we’re also looking into fresh ideas to make our city centre truly sing.
Our first step is to gather community input on how to make it a place where everyone wants to spend time.
A lot has changed since the Central City Transformation Plan — a long-term vision built on over 30 years of planning and community engagement — was adopted in 2019. Your ideas will help us refresh our future vision for the city centre, guiding how we design streets, laneways and spaces to create a vibrant heart to our city that will attract more activity and more people.
This work builds on the Central City Transformation Plan and aligns with wider initiatives to create a dynamic, people-focused and economically resilient city centre.
Please complete our short survey below to share your ideas on how to make the city centre a better place for everyone.
This survey is open until 30 April 2025.
Wondering what area our Lower Hutt city centre covers? See the map below!
Background
Adopted in 2019, the Central City Transformation Plan was the result of three decades of formal planning and community consultation that sought to re-energise our city centre and turn it towards Te Awa Kairangi Hutt River.
The purpose of the Plan was to:
integrate Te Wai Takamori o Te Awa Kairangi (formerly RiverLink) works with the city centre
assist Council in identifying potential housing growth opportunities
identify public space improvements
identify areas of special focus where significant change was anticipated
For more information visit City Centre Transformation.
What's next?
Your feedback will help us refresh the vision for the city centre, which is planned to be adopted by Council in mid-2025. This will inform our Streetscape Improvements project and other Council initiatives going forward.
