This consultation closed on Friday 2 May 2025.

Our campaign to improve tsunami resilience in Auckland received:

• 1126 visits to the project webpage
• 83 feedback responses, including seven from groups or organisations.

Key feedback themes

Overall, feedback was positive.

Across local board areas, 80.7 per cent of respondents supported all or most of our recommendations.

People also asked us to:

• expand projects and activities led by local communities
• increase public awareness campaigns
• install more information boards and signs.

The most common concerns across local board areas were about:

• the cost to ratepayers
• investing in what some people see as a low-risk issue.

Changes we made as a result of your feedback

Based on your feedback, we added a new action to the proposed action plan.

This action makes sure our tsunami modelling and mapping are regularly reviewed and updated so they remain current and relevant.

We also changed other actions, such as installing public alert and address systems, to make sure they provide good value for ratepayers.

What happens next

The Civil Defence and Emergency Management Committee approved the revised Tsunami Resilience Action Plan in September 2025.

We are now planning upgrades, including:

• information boards
• signs
• limited public alert systems.

We expect installation to begin in June 2026.

To improve tsunami resilience, we have already started updating:

• our operations
• community funding
• planning
• communications.

We expect all programmes and initiatives to be in place by the end of 2028.