Draft Enhanced Annual Plan 2024/2025

Consultation has concluded

What is an 'enhanced' Annual Plan?

All councils must produce a Long Term Plan every three years, which lays out the expected levels of service and how these will be paid for and planned out over the next ten years.

The passing of the Water Service Act Repeal Bill earlier this year created significant policy changes in relation to funding and obligations around three waters including the requirement to reintroduce costs for three waters into the Council’s ten-year budgets.

Given the uncertainty this created around key funding and affordability issues, the government gave councils the option to defer the LTP process for 12 months and produce an ‘Enhanced Annual Plan’ instead.

Along with a number of other councils around Aotearoa New Zealand, Grey District Council has chosen to defer its annual plan for 12 months until legislative changes are clarified and embedded.

This Enhanced Annual Plan lays out Council’s plan for the next twelve months while the work already undertaken for the LTP will be carried over to next year’s ten-year planning process.

What's in the Enhanced Annual Plan?

This proposed Enhanced Annual Plan is one of restraint, with a focus on the key responsibilities we have as a council. We have been realistic in what we can deliver over the next year to keep rates as low as possible while still providing exceptional service and maintaining the assets we have.

We continue to face significant economic challenges with increased costs for delivering services and maintaining our infrastructure. We are also acutely aware that the cost of living crisis is impacting many members of our community.

Key considerations in the plan:

  • Stormwater and sewer separation
  • Central Government-led reforms
  • Climate change and sustainability
  • Rubbish and recycling
  • Council property and retirement housing
  • Asset valuation and depreciation

Get involved

- Consultation has now closed and Council will hear submissions on Tuesday 4 June in Council Chambers -

This is your opportunity to provide feedback on our draft plan. More detailed information can be found in the full Draft Enhanced Annual Plan. Please take this opportunity to read it, consider the Council’s proposal and have your say.

You can provide feedback in hard copy by downloading the submission form here, online below, or in person at one of our many public sessions.

We encourage you to provide an in-person submission to Council in early June.

Please take some time to have your say and provide feedback on what Council is proposing and let us know what you see as key issues for our District for the next 12 months.

What is an 'enhanced' Annual Plan?

All councils must produce a Long Term Plan every three years, which lays out the expected levels of service and how these will be paid for and planned out over the next ten years.

The passing of the Water Service Act Repeal Bill earlier this year created significant policy changes in relation to funding and obligations around three waters including the requirement to reintroduce costs for three waters into the Council’s ten-year budgets.

Given the uncertainty this created around key funding and affordability issues, the government gave councils the option to defer the LTP process for 12 months and produce an ‘Enhanced Annual Plan’ instead.

Along with a number of other councils around Aotearoa New Zealand, Grey District Council has chosen to defer its annual plan for 12 months until legislative changes are clarified and embedded.

This Enhanced Annual Plan lays out Council’s plan for the next twelve months while the work already undertaken for the LTP will be carried over to next year’s ten-year planning process.

What's in the Enhanced Annual Plan?

This proposed Enhanced Annual Plan is one of restraint, with a focus on the key responsibilities we have as a council. We have been realistic in what we can deliver over the next year to keep rates as low as possible while still providing exceptional service and maintaining the assets we have.

We continue to face significant economic challenges with increased costs for delivering services and maintaining our infrastructure. We are also acutely aware that the cost of living crisis is impacting many members of our community.

Key considerations in the plan:

  • Stormwater and sewer separation
  • Central Government-led reforms
  • Climate change and sustainability
  • Rubbish and recycling
  • Council property and retirement housing
  • Asset valuation and depreciation

Get involved

- Consultation has now closed and Council will hear submissions on Tuesday 4 June in Council Chambers -

This is your opportunity to provide feedback on our draft plan. More detailed information can be found in the full Draft Enhanced Annual Plan. Please take this opportunity to read it, consider the Council’s proposal and have your say.

You can provide feedback in hard copy by downloading the submission form here, online below, or in person at one of our many public sessions.

We encourage you to provide an in-person submission to Council in early June.

Please take some time to have your say and provide feedback on what Council is proposing and let us know what you see as key issues for our District for the next 12 months.