The 10-year Plan includes changes to fees and charges for some Council services. This is done through our Revenue and Financing Policy. This policy guides decisions on how to fund Council services.

What is the background to the changes?

Due to COVID-19, some fees were not increased for the 2020-21 year. This means that some fees have experienced higher increases in the current proposal, including significant increases for Parking, Building Control and Facilitation, and Waterfront Public Spaces. For example, there is a substantial increase in weekend and coupon parking rates to support Council’s journey to becoming a low-carbon capital. So in developing the 10-year Plan we have reviewed our fees and charges,

How do we set fees and charges?

Our Revenue and Financing Policy guides our decisions on how to fund Council services. We consider who benefits from a service (e.g. individuals, parts of the community or the community as a whole) to help determine how the service should be funded.

The policy also sets the targets for each Council activity indicating the proportion that should be funded from user charges, general rates, targets rates and other sources of income.

What ones will change and by how much?

The Willowbank Reserve play area is categorised as a community play space, which are designed to keep junior-age tamariki and/or rangatahi (youth-aged people) entertained for at least an hour. Community play spaces should provide play opportunities for a range of age groups, and should offer something unique compared to similar play spaces elsewhere in Pōneke.

We're renewing these play areas to make them an even better place to play. You can read more about Wellington City Council’s strategic vision and planning for play areas in Wellington in the Play Spaces Policy (2017).

We are proposing to change the following Council fees and user charges:

  • Parking
  • Botanic Gardens
  • Waterfront public spaces
  • Sewerage collection and disposal
  • Arts partnerships
  • Sportsfields
  • Golf
  • Community centres
  • Recreation centres
  • Swimming
  • Marinas
  • Public health regulations
  • Burials and cremations
  • Waste minimisation
  • Building control and facilitation
  • Development control and facilitation
  • Network-wide control and management

Detailed information on the changes to fees and user charges can be downloaded here or from the document library on the right of this page.

Want to know more about the seven decisions? Head back to our Long-term Plan homepage or read our full consultation document.