Ten Year Plan

This page is about Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Ten Year Plan.

1. It describes our Ten Year Plan and contains links to the document.
2. It also includes changes and proposed changes to policies that sit within the Plan.
3. This page also describes how Annual Plans fit within the ten year cycle and provides a link to our Annual Plan page. 

The draft Ten Year Plan 2012 - 2022

SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED on the draft Ten Year Plan 2012 - 2022.

Thank you to those who have made a submission. Copies of the submissions are publicly available for viewing at Council's main receptions at the Mount Maunganui, Rotorua and Whakatane offices. You can see the list of submitters, along with summaries of the submissions, in the Council agenda.

If you have indicated that you wish to speak to Council on your submission you should have received a letter advising you of your hearing appointment. If you cannot make your allocated hearing time, please make contact with us. If you have not received a letter notifying you of your hearing time, and you wish to speak to your submission, please contact tenyearplan@boprc.govt.nz.

Members of the public are welcome to attend the hearings. You can see a copy of the draft hearing schedule by clicking on the link below. Please note that this is a draft schedule and is subject to change.

Hearings Schedule (164KB)

Download the draft Ten Year Plan 2012 - 2022

Summary Document

April Issue of Backyard, our Regional Newsletter

Full Draft Ten Year Plan 2012 - 2022

We also welcome submissions on the following policies that are being developed alongside the Ten Year Plan.

More information

More information about parts of the plan may be found on the following pages:

• Water Quality in Lake Rotorua
• Asset Management Planning

The following are key steps to finalise our Ten Year Plan 2012-2022:

The Ten Year Plan 2009 - 2019

Our Ten Year Plan describes what Bay of Plenty Regional Council proposes to do over a ten year timeframe. It sets out we plan to do for three years in detail, and outlines our activities for seven years after that. It is reviewed every three years.

We are currently in Year Three (2011/2012) of our Ten Year Plan 2009-2019. We adopted our Annual Plan 2011/2012 (for Year Three of the Ten Year Plan), which came into effect on 1 July 2011. We are also working on our next Ten Year Plan - 2012-2022.

Our Ten Year Plan is divided into ten chapters:.

• Introduction (913 KB, pdf)
• Community Outcomes (1.4 MB, pdf)
• Groups of Activities (160 KB, pdf)
• Regional Leadership (193 KB, pdf)
• Natural Environment (277 KB, pdf)
• Sustainable Development and Infrastructure (4.7 MB, pdf) LARGE FILE
• Corporate Services (790 KB, pdf)
• Financial Overview and Summary (216 KB, pdf)
• Financial and Non Financial Policies (372 KB, pdf) (please note policy changes below)
• Funding Impact Statement (183 KB, pdf)

• Ten Year Plan information sheet (334 KB, pdf)

Policy changes to support new funding agency

Bay of Plenty Regional Council consulted the community on proposed changes to the Investment and Liability Management policies within the Ten Year Plan to support the establishment of a New Zealand local government funding agency. This proposal was adopted by Council at its meeting on Thursday 25 August 2011.

• Details on the proposed changes and the proposed funding agency are available on our policies page.
• Download the amended Investment Policy (190 KB, pdf)
• Download the amended Liability Management Policy (166 KB, pdf)

Change to Financial and Non Financial Policies in the Ten Year Plan

The Policy on Remission and Postponement of Rates June 2011 (20 KB, pdf) was adopted on 23 June 2011 and replaces the Policy on Remission and Postponement of Rates and the Policy on Remission and Postponement of Rates on Maori Freehold Land which sit within the Ten Year Plan. The new policy comes into effect on 1 July 2011.

This does not change the intent or application of the policies. We simplified and expanded them by amalgamating them into one to reduce duplication, and added a rates postponement mechanism to support loan repayments for environmental initiatives.

The rates postponement mechanism - called the Environmental Loan Repayment Scheme - will help us collect loan repayments for environmental initiatives.

This is when a property owner agrees to the loan amount becoming a targeted rate. The targeted rate is struck once and then it is postponed for the term of the loan. The property owner then pays the loan off through regular payments. Without this mechanism a targeted rate would need to be struck each year for the amount due that year.

The Environmental Loan Repayment Scheme will initially be used to support the Hot Swap Loan initiative. This aims to improve Rotorua's air quality by providing a loan to assist property owners to install cleaner heating appliances.

Annual Plans

Annual Plans are prepared in the years between each Ten Year Plan. These plans set out what we propose to do that year, how much it will cost, and how we will fund it.

Once the Ten Year Plan is in place, the Annual Plan process continues but the focus is on year-to-year budgets. The annual plans produced in the intervening years support the Ten Year Plan, and their primary purpose is to provide the base for setting and assessing rates.