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After months of work to cut costs, NPDC has locked-in a reduced average residential rates rise of 9.9 per cent for the 12 months from 1 July this year.
This is lower than the 10.2 per cent originally planned in year two of the Long-Term Plan 2024-34.
The Council yesterday (TUESDAY) confirmed its draft Annual Plan, which includes various cost-savings across the business.
Mayor Neil Holdom said Council had taken steps to minimise the increase including an organisational restructure and line by line review of expenditure to land at the 9.9 per cent figure and would be working hard to ensure costs were controlled more effectively in future.
“We’re facing the challenges that every council is New Zealand is facing, and have had to balance the cost of living crisis with the fact that we are an infrastructure provider with a duty of care to current and future generations to ensure roads, water and waste water assets and related community facilities are adequately maintained after years of underinvestment,” says the Mayor.
“Council will be actively looking at all its costs over the year ahead and working to lift productivity by safely managing down non-productive costs like traffic management as well as growing non-rates revenue to help absorb the increasing external costs including insurance, interest costs and complying with unfunded edicts from central government.
“This decision reflects a long-term view of our responsibilities to safeguard New Plymouth District’s public asset base by investing in the health, vibrancy and critical infrastructure on which to sustainably grow our economy and underpin our quality of life.”
At the same meeting, the Council adopted fees and charges for 2025/26, some of which will be inflation-adjusted.
Decisions made by the Council include:
Fast facts:
Page last updated: 01:43pm Wed 19 February 2025