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Our local board plan is a three-year strategic plan that guides local board activity, funding and investment decisions. It also influences local board input into regional strategies and plans, including the Auckland Plan (the 30-year vision for Auckland), our 10-year Budget (long-term plan) and the annual budgets.
You can request accessible Word documents of local board plans through our contact centre or by visiting one of our libraries with council services.
The local board agreement sets out the local board's budget and funding for activities and performance measures for the financial year.
Local board agreements are part of the council's budget process. Visit One-year and 10-year budgets to find out more about our budgets.
Devonport-Takapuna Local Board has adopted the Devonport-Takapuna Area Plan, which sets out a framework of growth and development in the local board area for the next 30 years.
The plan's key moves include providing for better public transport and protecting the heritage features of Devonport-Takapuna.
In November 2024, the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board adopted the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Emergency Readiness and Response Plan. This plan was developed with Auckland Emergency Management with input from the wider community.
The plan provides people in the Devonport-Takapuna area with advice and information about:
Read the plan, a summary of the plan and our hazard factsheet to learn:
Visit AEM - Local boards for the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Emergency Readiness and Response Plan.
This plan sets out actions on how to better engage with, support and represent our many diverse communities.
Devonport-Takapuna Local Board produced this plan in partnership with the Asian Network.
The Devonport-Takapuna Greenways Plan seeks to improve the long-term walking, cycling and ecological corridors of the local board area.
The Greenways Plan has 11 projects which the local board will prioritise to implement.
These greenways connections will provide recreational, environmental, health, economic, social, and educational opportunities and benefits for the residents of the local board area.
This plan outlines how Devonport-Takapuna Local Board and council-controlled organisations (CCOs) will work together on community priorities.
The CCOs include:
This plan also creates a framework for reporting progress.
The Devonport-Takapuna Local Economic Development Action Plan creates a framework to guide local economic development actions for the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board area.
This plan provides guidance on future investment in projects that promote play. It considers projects that are for the wider community and not just limited to playgrounds.
Following engagement with the community, the Takapuna Beach Reserve South Concept Plan was adopted by Devonport-Takapuna Local Board in August 2014.
Devonport-Takapuna Local Board has developed the Milford Centre Plan, a guide for the enhancement of Milford over the next 30 years.
The Milford Centre Plan helps to fulfil the vision of making the town centre friendly and accessible with a strong local identity and unique heritage.
The outcomes which will enable us to achieve this vision include developing Kitchener Road with a vibrant plaza, building a strong connection between quality destinations, and promoting a healthy and attractive Wairau estuary.
Devonport-Takapuna Local Board has developed the Takapuna Centre Plan to serve as a guide for the growth of this key centre for the next 30 years.
The Takapuna Centre Plan seeks to make the most of Takapuna's location and focuses on projects that will transform it into a people-friendly and well-connected centre.
Three key projects will target the Anzac Quarter, the beachfront and the streets.
The Sunnynook Plan has been developed by the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board and the Kaipātiki Local Board.
This plan covers Sunnynook, Tōtara Vale and Forrest Hill development over the next 30 years.
The vision is to create an attractive, connected, walkable, social and liveable neighbourhood for diverse cultures and ages.
The outcomes and actions in the plan will help us achieve this vision.
We sponsored the Belmont Centre Design Initiative, a project to improve Belmont's local centre.
We worked alongside Auckland Transport's Lake Road improvements project in 2019 and 2020.
A community group of local Belmont representatives assisted in the projects' development.
Design principles for the future of Belmont guided the community concept and helped us prepare two final options to improve Lake Road and the centre's public space.
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