Thank you to all who have taken the time to submit. Your feedback helps shape our city.
Submissions on the Annual Plan have now closed. Community feedback is being reviewed and will be collated into a report for Councillors, alongside a full list of submissions. This report will be publicly available here and on the Wellington City Council Website in May.
Councillors will consider the feedback at a meeting on 27 May. The public can attend this meeting in-person or watch via livestream on YouTube (youtube.com/@wellingtoncitycouncil).
After Council’s deliberations on 27 May, Council will adopt the Annual Plan on 25 June.
If you indicated that you wished to make an oral submission, you will be contacted shortly to arrange a time for this.
To stay up to date, you can subscribe to project updates via email on the right-hand side of this page. If you have any questions, please email annualplan@wcc.govt.nz.
The Mayor, Councillors and Pouiwi representatives have set out the Council’s proposed activities for the next financial year, starting 1 July 2026.
These proposals are draft. We will be finalising them in June 2026.
Before then, we need to hear from you. This will help the Mayor, Councillors and Pouiwi make their final decisions on behalf of the city.
We are seeking community feedback on key proposals including:
We set our rates by balancing the needs of the community and the demand for services with rates affordability. Your money helps us deliver hundreds of day-to-day services and pays for the interest on loans used to fund big capital projects across Wellington.
This year your rates bill is changing. From 1 July 2026, your Wellington City Council rates will no longer include water charges.
You’ll be billed for water services by a new, separate organisation called Tiaki Wai.
So, while your Council rates bill will go down, the total amount you pay will not.
Due to water network income (and costs) transferring to Tiaki Wai, the Council proposes to collect a total of $433 million in rates (a decrease compared to $629 million in 2025/26, both GST exclusive).
For the remaining Council costs, now excluding water, we are proposing a 7.4 percent average rates increase this year (after growth in the ratepayer base), including a 2.0 percent increase for the Sludge Levy.
For more information on rates, please read the Consultation Document or download the rates information brochure.
Your voice is a critical and essential part of the Annual Plan process, and we need to hear from you.
You will have your say, the Council will listen and then make the tough decisions that are needed and that reflect our communities’ values and concerns.
Provide your feedback by midnight, 10 May 2026.
The city’s short-term accommodation (STA) sector provides an effective alternative to motels and hotels and adds capacity for the city. This accommodation is often provided through sites like Airbnb or Bookabach. We are proposing to introduce a new general rates differential covering short-term accommodation.
The current prioritisation for the Paneke Pōneke Bike Network Plan was agreed last year through the 2024-34 LTP Amendment after public consultation last year. We are proposing to reduce the cycleways work programme planned for 2026/27.
The Council is proposing increasing contaminated waste fees. It currently charges $267 per tonne for contaminated soil and $350 for asbestos disposal. The Silverstream Transfer Station charges $510 per tonne for contaminated soil and $398 per tonne for asbestos.*
The Council is proposing to increase cremation fees to have a higher proportion of the funding being paid by the user and to align with similar charges in the region.
The Council has reviewed its budgets and is proposing changes to ensure the rates for the year remain as low as possible and that the Council is spending wisely.
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