Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26

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Horowhenua District Council is asking the community for feedback on its Food Act and Resource Management Act fees and charges for the 2025/26 financial year.

Fees and charges are usually set alongside the Annual Plan process because this is where we check our budgets, and check that we're continuing to follow our own Revenue and Financing Policy, which sets out how fees and charges are shared between all ratepayers and those who use the service. (You can read about it on page 326 in our Long Term Plan).

Council is currently developing the Annual Plan 2025/26 but because it doesn’t include any significant change to what we consulted on during the Long Term Plan 2024-44 process last year, we’re not consulting on any matters there. The Local Government Act recognises that where Councils are sticking with their Long Term Plan and not making significant or material changes, consultation isn’t needed as there are no key decisions to ask about. The draft Annual Plan is being prepared for adoption on 30 June 2025.

What we’re consulting on

Fees set under the Food Act 2014 and the Resource Management Act 1991 must be formally consulted. We’re asking you specifically about those fees.

Why are there changes to fees and charges for 2025/26?

You might remember from the Long Term Plan discussion that fees and charges ensure the funding of services provided by Council are fairly split between users and the rest of the community. For example, we charge for the use of the public pool to help pay for some of the costs of running it. The split is set out in our Revenue and Financing Policy.

Given the significant cost increases Council is facing alongside increasing rates, Council needs to increase some fees and charges to maintain our levels of service and ensure we don't have too much of the cost falling on all ratepayers. Fees will increase by an average of 2.8% and there will be other changes to a small number of fees.

You can read the full schedule of proposed fees and charges below.

Schedule of Proposed Fees & Charges






Kōrero Mai | Have Your Say

Council wants to know what the community thinks of the Food Act and Resource Management fees and charges for 2025/26.

You can have your say by filling in our online submission form.

Submitters will have the opportunity to speak to their submissions during hearings on Monday 7 April 2025.

Submissions close at 4pm on Friday 28 March 2025.



Privacy Statement

All submissions made are publicly available on our website and at Council service centres. Your personal details (including name and contact details) will be provided in their entirety to Elected Members and made available to the public at our office and on our website, unless submitters request that this information be kept private. We collect your contact information so we can keep you up to date with the proposal.

For more information, see our privacy statement on www.horowhenua.govt.nz/PrivacyStatement

Horowhenua District Council is asking the community for feedback on its Food Act and Resource Management Act fees and charges for the 2025/26 financial year.

Fees and charges are usually set alongside the Annual Plan process because this is where we check our budgets, and check that we're continuing to follow our own Revenue and Financing Policy, which sets out how fees and charges are shared between all ratepayers and those who use the service. (You can read about it on page 326 in our Long Term Plan).

Council is currently developing the Annual Plan 2025/26 but because it doesn’t include any significant change to what we consulted on during the Long Term Plan 2024-44 process last year, we’re not consulting on any matters there. The Local Government Act recognises that where Councils are sticking with their Long Term Plan and not making significant or material changes, consultation isn’t needed as there are no key decisions to ask about. The draft Annual Plan is being prepared for adoption on 30 June 2025.

What we’re consulting on

Fees set under the Food Act 2014 and the Resource Management Act 1991 must be formally consulted. We’re asking you specifically about those fees.

Why are there changes to fees and charges for 2025/26?

You might remember from the Long Term Plan discussion that fees and charges ensure the funding of services provided by Council are fairly split between users and the rest of the community. For example, we charge for the use of the public pool to help pay for some of the costs of running it. The split is set out in our Revenue and Financing Policy.

Given the significant cost increases Council is facing alongside increasing rates, Council needs to increase some fees and charges to maintain our levels of service and ensure we don't have too much of the cost falling on all ratepayers. Fees will increase by an average of 2.8% and there will be other changes to a small number of fees.

You can read the full schedule of proposed fees and charges below.

Schedule of Proposed Fees & Charges






Kōrero Mai | Have Your Say

Council wants to know what the community thinks of the Food Act and Resource Management fees and charges for 2025/26.

You can have your say by filling in our online submission form.

Submitters will have the opportunity to speak to their submissions during hearings on Monday 7 April 2025.

Submissions close at 4pm on Friday 28 March 2025.



Privacy Statement

All submissions made are publicly available on our website and at Council service centres. Your personal details (including name and contact details) will be provided in their entirety to Elected Members and made available to the public at our office and on our website, unless submitters request that this information be kept private. We collect your contact information so we can keep you up to date with the proposal.

For more information, see our privacy statement on www.horowhenua.govt.nz/PrivacyStatement

Page last updated: 24 Mar 2025, 11:37 AM