Draft Long-Term Plan submissions to be considered next week

Buller District Council will come together next week to consider 336 submissions on the Draft Long-Term Plan (LTP) 2025-2034. Council will also take into account 38 funding requests made by a variety of community groups for one-off or annual funding.

60 people have chosen to speak to their submissions during the two days of hearings scheduled for next week. 22 will speak in support of their funding requests, with the balance speaking to their individual LTP submissions.

Chief Executive Officer Simon Pickford says: “We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to provide feedback during this consultation. We were pleased with the number of submissions received. This year, we introduced a dedicated form for funding requests to ensure consistency in the information provided. This supports councillors in making well-informed decisions and enhances administrative efficiency by streamlining the way data is collated and presented.”

Council has published the funding requests, individual submissions and a consultation report analysing the submissions on the Buller District Council website.

Mr Pickford says: “Councillors’ focus for the coming week will be to review the submissions and hear from submitters so they can understand people’s concerns, suggestions and feedback.”

The hearings and deliberations will take place at the Clocktower Chambers in Palmerston Street. On Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 June, council will listen to people who wish to speak to their submission. On Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 June, council will discuss the submissions during deliberations. Proceedings for both will be livestreamed to council’s YouTube channel, Buller District Council.

Mr Pickford highlights “It has been an enormous task to collate the submissions, analyse the data, summarise the feedback and organise the hearings. It was great to use council’s engagement platform Let's talk Buller to its full potential. This enabled staff to carry out a much more thorough and efficient analysis of the large number of comments and get the information to elected members and the public quickly.”

After the hearings, councillors will discuss the submissions and funding requests during two days of deliberations and make any necessary changes to the Draft Long-Term Plan 2025-2034.

The Long-Term Plan 2025-2034 will be adopted at the extraordinary council meeting on 30 June and be effective from 1 July 2025.
Further information will be released after the hearings and deliberations have been completed next week.

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For further information please contact:
Community Engagement Team Buller District Council
Media.Enquiries@bdc.govt.nz 

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