On 25 August, Council adopted a Development Contributions Policy on the recommendation of the Strategy, Policy & Finance Committee which considered feedback following consultation.

The Policy was applied from 1 December 2022.

Council will be developing guides on how the Policy applies to new developments and these will be available for use prior to the 1 December implementation date.

Key changes include:

• Implementation date change from 1 September 2022 to 1 December 2022
• Stormwater catchment areas have been amended
• Review of Eastern Stormwater works growth allocation
• Changes to Development Contribution charges
• HUE totals updated to reflect change to non-residential HUEs
• Reduction to interest costs for Eastern Stormwater.

Feedback

Thank you to those who made submissions during the consultation period.

We received 60 submissions on the draft Policy. 32 were in support of developers paying for growth, 12 were in support of ratepayers paying for growth, 8 were against the reintroduction of a Development Contributions Policy, and 8 didn’t specify if they were for or against the reintroduction of a Policy.