In the 2024/2025 financial year we plan to invest $5 million to renew and develop assets (resources we own). We also plan to invest $18.3 million to maintain and operate assets and deliver local activities.
In this long-term plan, local boards have more responsibility for decisions about local assets and services than in previous years.
This includes making decisions about which assets (such as parks and community halls) and services (such as libraries) we should prioritise with funds allocated by the Governing Body.
Some funding decisions are not the responsibility of a local board and in such cases the board can:
- ask the Governing Body to consider funding from its long-term plan budget
- ask a council-controlled organisation (such as Auckland Transport) to deliver the service during the 10 years of the long-term plan.
Upper Harbour Local Board priorities for 2024-2034
The Upper Harbour Local Board proposed priorities for its area for the next 10 years. These priorities depend on funding from the Governing Body.
They are to:
- look at options to sell land or introduce a targeted rate so we can invest in a new multi-purpose library in Albany
- plan and develop a new public toilet at the Whenuapai Town Park
- create a connected community and vibrant destination in Albany where people want to live, visit, shop, work and connect
- continue supporting our local community organisations and volunteers to deliver outcomes that provide a sense of belonging, wellbeing and resilience for residents.
Priorities for Upper Harbour outside of local board decisions
Priorities that require funding outside of a local board need a decision from the Governing Body or a council-controlled organisation.
We will advocate to the Governing Body for:
- fairer funding for Upper Harbour
- funding for a suitable library facility in Albany
- enough funding to ensure our existing assets are well-maintained
- appropriate investment in North Harbour Stadium to ensure it is a well-used, multipurpose facility that meets the needs of the growing North Auckland community
- planning and investment in infrastructure to develop and support quality open spaces in areas impacted by growth and intensification like Whenuapai, Hobsonville Point and Albany
- retention and increase of the Local Board Transport Capital Fund.
What we propose for Upper Harbour
Key areas of spend for Upper Harbour 2024/2025
For the financial year 2024/2025, we plan to deliver key projects, activities and changes to services.
These are to:
- to progress plans for a new multipurpose library in Albany
- continue delivering stage 1b of Te Kori Scott Point including three new sports fields, sport field lighting and a second baseball diamond (field)
- implement actions from the Upper Harbour Ethnic Peoples Plan. (See Upper Harbour plans, agreements and reports: page 14 of the Upper Harbour Local Board Plan)
- continue to invest in projects that improve the environment and address climate change, including planting trees as outlined in the Upper Harbour Urban Ngahere Strategy (see Upper Harbour plans, agreements and reports to learn more) and continuing to support and fund volunteer environmental work
- implement actions from the Upper Harbour Engagement Strategy. (Visit Upper Harbour plans, agreements and reports to learn more)
- implement actions from the Upper Harbour Greenways Plan. (Visit Upper Harbour plans, agreements and reports to learn more)
- implement actions from the Upper Harbour Wheeled Recreation Service Assessment. (Visit Upper Harbour plans, agreements and reports to learn more).
You should know
The information on this page is an edited version of the proposed Long-term Plan 2024-2034.
For more information, see page 122 of the Long-term Plan 2024-2034 Consultation Document [PDF 17MB].
