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.
Read our budget plans in full.
The Upper Harbour Local Board has created its first plan to support and empower people from ethnic communities.
This five-year plan sets out how the local board will work with ethnic communities who live, work and spend time in Upper Harbour.
It focuses on six main areas with clear goals and actions to help create positive outcomes. The plan helps the board make decisions, set priorities, work with partners and support local communities.
The focus areas are:
In December 2024, the Upper Harbour Local Board adopted the Upper Harbour 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 Upper Harbour 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 Upper Harbour Local Board Emergency Readiness and Response Plan.
This strategy provides guidance to the Upper Harbour community on how to prioritise and plan community-led:
These projects will help protect and restore native biodiversity in the area.
Pest plants and animals compete with, prey on and damage our native species. The pest management strategy recommends actions most likely to strengthen native ecosystems in Upper Harbour.
The Upper Harbour Local Parks Management Plan covers around 260 local parks and almost 800 hectares of land.
It provides a policy framework to guide local park decision-making over the next 10 years.
The plan also advises how we can use, protect and develop parks in the Upper Harbour 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.
This study evaluates wheeled play opportunities in the Upper Harbour Local Board area.
The study looks at:
It also considers current population distribution and future projections.
It was adopted in April 2022.
This plan outlines how Upper Harbour 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 Upper Harbour Urban Ngahere Action Plan aims to recognise and replenish Tāmaki Makaurau’s urban ngahere (forest).
Auckland's greenways plans are a series of visionary networks being worked on by local boards.
Their long-term aim is to improve walking, cycling, recreational and ecological connections across the region.
The 2019 plan builds on and refreshes the 2015 plan. It also investigates some additional connections to improve transport and travel in the area.
This is the long-term greenways plan for the Upper Harbour Local Board area. It is a guiding document that provides high level direction to improve the open space network.
The Upper Harbour Open Space Network Plan will assist the local board decision-making and provide a framework for the development of open space over the next 10 years.
The plan sets out actions to deliver a sustainable, quality open space network that can accommodate and respond to anticipated population growth.
The plan was adopted by the local board in September 2018 and revised in October 2019.
The Upper Harbour Strategic Play Provision Assessment looks at how to improve the network of play experiences in the local board area.
The plan was adopted in August 2018.
Local boards have an important role to play in local economic development and provide useful input to regional economic development initiatives where appropriate.
Development of a local economic development action plan provides a mechanism to identify local economic development issues and opportunities. The plan identifies and implements initiatives in response.
The plan was adopted in December 2015.
The Luckens Reserve Concept Design and Masterplan provides details of development planned for the reserve.
The plan was adopted in December 2020.
The Sanders Reserve Bike Facility Analysis and Development Strategy is a document assessing the area's existing track facilities.
It was adopted in May 2022 and will help us develop a strategy for the site.
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