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.
In December 2024, the Whau Local Board adopted the Whau 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 Whau 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 Whau Local Board Emergency Readiness and Response Plan.
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.
The purpose of the Whau Pacific Peoples Plan is to help improve inclusion and support for Pacific residents in the Whau Local Board area.
The plan covers:
This plan outlines how Whau 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 purpose of the Whau Local Board Environmental Action Report (WEAR) is to establish a living inventory of environmentally focused projects and programmes in the Whau Local Board area.
The board aims to provide a simple, logical framework to determine appropriate levels of support, coordination and involvement.
The Whau Neighbourhood Greenways Plan outlines the long-term 'greenways plan' (often termed 'greenways network') for the Whau Local Board area.
Similar greenways plans have been developed throughout the world, with Portland, Oregon being one of the most successful.
Auckland's greenways plans are a series of linked, visionary plans being driven 'from the ground up' by local boards, with the long-term aim of greatly improving walking, cycling and ecological connections across the region.
The Whau Local Board has drafted a localised carbon reduction plan, supporting the ten year Energy Resilience and Low Carbon Action Plan.
The plan aims to reduce greenhouse emissions locally.
This document focuses on helping community groups, individuals and businesses become a low carbon community through:
We adopted the Welcoming Whau plan in December 2024.
The plan aims to make sure new residents in our local board area have a great experience when they move to our area by providing:
We worked with different groups in the community to develop the plan and set out actions to help new residents feel:
Whau Local Board is an accredited Committed Welcoming Community under the national Welcoming Communities programme led by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment and Immigration New Zealand.
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