Infrastructure Strategy

On 27 June 2024, we adopted our Infrastructure Strategy 

Infrastructure-Strategy.pdf(PDF, 2MB)

Introduction

This Strategy identifies significant infrastructure challenges for Council over the next 30 years and identifies the principal options for managing those challenges and the implications of those options.

The Strategy is an indicative estimate of Council’s future infrastructure needs. It is not a budget and by itself does not commit Council to any future project, cost or timing. It is a statement of current assumptions and thinking on what infrastructure will be required to address the major issues facing the city over the next 30 years, what to prioritise, and to identify risks associated with infrastructure under-investment.

Our long-term approach is to ensure that our infrastructure is maintained to agreed levels of service that underpin the Long Term Plan’s community outcomes, to ensure we are meeting all our legislative requirements and the needs and expectations of our community, now and into the future. This Strategy takes a ‘multi-asset’ approach – looking across different types of infrastructure, rather than within a single activity – to ensure that Upper Hutt is managing and building the right long-term infrastructure in the right place, at the right time.

The importance of well-managed infrastructure

Infrastructure plays a crucial role in people’s lives and provides an important base for many of the activities we pursue. Infrastructure provides the foundation for our economy to prosper, our people to be healthy and our city to be safe. Due to the physical size, long life and financial cost, infrastructure plays a leading role in how our city looks, functions and operates.

Well-maintained infrastructure located in the right place and provided at the right time, with sufficient capacity and resilience is critical to the economic prosperity, and social wellbeing of people living, visiting, and working in Upper Hutt.

Providing and maintaining the Upper Hutt City Council’s (Council) infrastructure requires good asset management practices and strategic thinking. The Infrastructure Strategy (the Strategy) assists Council in taking a long-term view of Upper Hutt’s infrastructure needs. Council is required to prepare an Infrastructure Strategy for a period of at least 30 years to inform its Long Term Plan. The Infrastructure Strategy has been directly informed by the city’s vision and goals, supporting strategies, and asset management plans, and sits alongside the Financial Strategy.