Key changes from the Long-term Plan

The 2022-23 Annual Plan focuses on the delivery programmes for year two (2022-23) of the 2021 Long-term Plan. While we plan to continue to deliver on the LTP work programme, there are timing changes for some projects. We are also proposing changes to some fees and user charges for Council services..

What's the background to these changes?

We have rescheduled parts of our LTP ten-year capital programme mainly in response in response to pandemic related market and supplier constraints. This has involved shifting the timing of some projects back to give time for supplier and the Council's delivery capacity to be increased. For example, the delivery of our housing upgrade programme and some parts of the bike network, such as Evans Bay cycleway, will be extended..

Overall, we still plan to deliver the full ten year work programme as set out in the 2021 Long-term Plan.

The map below shows the location in Wellington of some of our work during 2022-23.

Changes to fees and charges for Council services

Encroachment fees: One of the key changes we plan to make is encroachment fees. Full information on encroachment fees is here.

Our Revenue and Financing Policy guides our decisions on how to fund council services and the fees and charges paid by users of the service. 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.

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

More information

We have covered a lot of information in preparing for the key consultation decisions and the proposed Annual Plan. This information is included here so that you can see what has guided the key decisions for public consultation and the proposed budgets.

The following additional documents are available for download from the document library on the right side of this page or by clicking the link in the following list.

Proposed Capital and Operating projects and programmes	The proposed budget for delivering Council services to Wellington, running the Council (the operating budget) and, investment in projects (the capital budget)
Proposed 2022/23 Fees and User Charges	Proposed changes to fees and user charges for Council services for the 2022/23 Annual Plan