This consultation is now closed for submissions.

We want your views on our draft 2024/34 Long-Term Plan (LTP) as we look at how to meet the challenges the region faces over the next decade.

Feedback is open on the draft plan with the community conversation seeking views on six key focus areas. Your responses will shape our strategic direction and how we fund services.

These six areas are crucial to many of the work programmes we deliver including how we continue to care for freshwater, protect biodiversity, control predators, adapt to climate change and manage resources.

The LTP will enable the Council to respond to the gathering pace of regulatory reform and funding changes while ensuring work continues on improving lifestyles, supporting livelihoods and taking the region forward.

Your views on the LTP are crucial as public feedback will help determine what we prioritise and where the funding goes to ensure we keep delivering services essential to the wellbeing and future of our communities.

The six key issues we’re seeking feedback on are:

• Improving resource management
• Delivering on freshwater
• Addressing climate change
• Our approach to possum control
• The future of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki
• Protecting indigenous biodiversity

You’ll find full details about our strategic direction, funding and the six key issues in the LTP and Consultation Documents, which you can download below.

Details around each of the six issues can also be found by clicking the Have your say tab.

You can give feedback from 10 March to 12 April. There will be the opportunity for those who want to talk about their submissions to do so at hearings on 6 to 8 May. The finalised LTP will be adopted by the Council in June and become operative from 1 July.

This consultation is now closed for submissions.

Having your say is easy. Just click on the links below to find out more about the six issues we’re consulting on and then click the button to complete the quick survey where there are a couple of questions on each issue.

For each of the issues, there are two or three options to choose from. Information on the options, and our preferred options, is provided.

Please feel free to comment about anything else in the LTP. There is a section in the survey which gives you the chance to provide feedback on any other aspect of the LTP. We welcome all views as we plan for the future of the region.