Wellington Regional Strategy

Wellington Regional Strategy Office Annual Reports

Click on the following links to download the WRS Annual Reports:

Annual Report 2007/2008

Annual Report 2008/2009

WRS Office Projects

Genuine Progress Index (GPI)
Genuine Progress Indexes (or Indicators) are a way of assessing the economic development of cities, regions or countries as well as looking at factors influencing the quality of life for residents. The success of the WRS is to be measured through a GPI.

The GPI Working Group continues to work together to develop indicators for the proposed GPI for the Wellington region. See the Genuine Progress box on the home page for more information.

See the GPI page by clicking on the dark blue box on the RHS of the home page.

Urban Design

An urban design working group, led by the WRS office, was set up to assist with the WRS actions. The working group consists of representatives from each of the TLAs and was set up in order to put forward recommendations to the Senior Officers Resource Team (SORT) on urban design matters.

A high level Wellington regional urban design action plan and stocktake was written and signed off by the WRS Committee in July 2009. The action plan includes a stocktake of urban design initiatives across the region as at March 2009. It also outlines related actions, milestones and responsibilities for action in 2010 covering the following areas.  

The WRS office has worked with the councils in the region to help them understand the implications for signing up to the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol (NZUDP). All councils have now signed up to the NZUDP.

Council-led projects

Industrial Land

Hutt City Council is leading the project on industrial-based employment locations.

Within the region, prime industrial land prices are rising, partly as a result of competition with commercial and residential demands. Whilst there does appears at present to be an adequate supply of industrial land across the region we do not understand how this situation may change in the future and what the impact of this might be. However, we can already see impacts on some particular sites and areas with a reduction in industrial use of land.

The project is investigating demand and supply of industrial land in the region in order to determine future availability for businesses coming into the region and any implications for planning and policy. A report has been commissioned on the current status of industrial land in the region. 

Open Spaces

Greater Wellington Regional Council is leading this project.

A regional open space strategy and action plan has been drafted and is in the final stages. A part of this was to develop a matrix  which identifies the types, roles, functions and values of public open space within the Wellington region open spaces network. The strategy includes a vision for open space to 2025 which will help guide the future provision and management of open space. A three year action plan (2009-2012) was developed to identify actions that open space providers in the Wellington region intend to take over this period to address the challenges and help guide collaborative planning for the public open space network in the Wellignton region.

There is an alignment with the work that the Greater Wellington parks department are progressing with their review of future use of Greater Wellington owned and managed parks.

Broadband

The Broadband Operating Group (BOG) is driving the development of a regional fibre broadband network for the whole of the Wellington region. It is comprised of a cross section of local government, central government and district health board representatives across the Wellington region with interests in the telecommunications sector. See the Regional Broadband Plan box on the right hand side of the home page for more information.

BOG  submitted an Expression of Interest (EOI) to the previous government's Broadband Investment Fund (BIF) but it is awaiting news on what the National-led government is planning to do in the broadband infrastructure area. 

See the Regional Broadband Plan page by clicking on the teal coloured box on the RHS of the home page for more information.

Wellington Region Labour Market Strategy

This project is being led by central government and private sector partners. There are five strands to the strategy:
• Collation and Dissemination of Labour Market Information and Initiatives  (DoL)
• Labour Force and Skills (MSD)
• Promoting Work Choices (Trade Start)
• Business Performance – Productivity (EMA (Central))
• Integrated Labour Market Responses by the Tertiary Sector (WelTec)

One of the key actions is “productivity” in the Wellington region, which particularly involves the manufacturing sector. The Productivity action group has started with three companies in the Manufacturing Sector. The first stage of the project has been completed, the reports and recommendations delivered, and the companies are implementing the interventions recommended in the report.

The Department of Labour’s Workplace Productivity Agenda team funded the project and a second phase of the project is underway. An evaluation of the project and the best practice manual will be available later in the year.

Updated  26 February 2010

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