Long-Term Plans
Our Long-Term Plan sets out our service priorities, work programmes and resource requirements such as expenditure and funding for a 10-year period. We produce a new Long-Term Plan every three years, which incorporates our Annual Plan for the first of the three years. A separate annual plan is produced for years two and three. Please click here for more information about our Annual Plans.
Long-Term Plan 2018-28
Public deliberation meeting
The public deliberation meeting for the Long-Term Plan took place on Wednesday 23 May at Environment Canterbury offices. You can find the Submission Summary Report in the Council agenda meeting documents.
The Councillors deliberated on the submissions received on the draft Long-Term Plan 2018-28, and in particular the community input regarding the proposed changes to the public transport service. Information on the public transport changes can be found on the metro website(external link).
Long-Term Plan 2018-2028 public hearings
Thank you for your feedback on the Long-Term Plan 2018-28. The consultation period to make a submission has now closed. Public hearings to review the submissions took place on the following days at Environment Canterbury offices. Read the scheduled submissions.
Read the full hearing schedule for both days. Your feedback will help guide Council decision-making in finalising the Long-term Plan, which will be adopted at the end of June.
View the Submissions on the Long-Term Plan 2018-28
Submissions A - K
Submissions L - Z
Long-Term Plan review timeline
| Review stage | Timeline |
| Analysis of submission themes | mid April 2018 |
| Public hearings | 30 April - 2 May 2018 |
| Submission summary report released | mid May 2018 |
| Public deliberation meeting | 23 May 2018 |
| New Long-Term Plan adopted | 21 June 2018 |
Draft Long-Term Plan 2018-2028 documents
You can read the full draft Long-Term Plan document 2018-28 and the short Consultation Document that has been prepared to outline the work planned for the period in our six work portfolios and how we will pay for that work. A vision impaired version of the Consultation Document can be downloaded here.
Your rates
Use our desktop rates tool(external link) to see how the different portfolios and programmes of work are funded. Learn more about how your rates are calculated.
Long-Term Plan time for Canterbury
Across the region all the councils are preparing plans for 2018-28 – and these plans need community input to help make sure they will deliver what the people of Canterbury actually want. You will see information in your letterbox and local media about two different plans.
One from the council for the district/city you live in eg Mackenzie, Selwyn or Christchurch. This is your ‘territorial authority’ and it is the council that provides services for your area eg libraries, footpaths, rubbish collections and water.
The other plan you will see is from Environment Canterbury (the regional council), that acts across Canterbury to look after regionwide issues such as air quality, freshwater quality, natural hazards and the buses.
All property owners in Canterbury pay rates to both the local territorial authority and Environment Canterbury, through the territorial authority rates bill.
Both the plans for where you live have consultation documents available in March and April and feedback is invited from all members of the community on both plans. To find out more visit the website of your council and Environment Canterbury.