We use cookies to ensure our site functions properly and to store limited information about your usage. You may give or withdraw consent at any time. To find out more, read our privacy policy and cookie policy.
Manage Cookies
A cookie is information stored on your computer by a website you visit. Cookies often store your settings for a website, such as your preferred language or location. This allows the site to present you with information customized to fit your needs. As per the GDPR law, companies need to get your explicit approval to collect your data. Some of these cookies are ‘strictly necessary’ to provide the basic functions of the website and can not be turned off, while others if present, have the option of being turned off. Learn more about our Privacy and Cookie policies. These can be managed also from our cookie policy page.
Strictly necessary cookies(always on):
Necessary for enabling core functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. This cannot be turned off. e.g. Sign in, Language
Analytics cookies:
Analytical cookies help us to analyse user behaviour, mainly to see if the users are able to find and act on things that they are looking for. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. Tools used: Google Analytics
Share Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26 on FacebookShare Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26 on TwitterShare Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26 on LinkedinEmail Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26 link
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.
Submissions closed 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.
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.
Submissions closed 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.
Welcome to 'Let's Kōrero Horowhenua', our new community engagement platform. Delivering outcomes that ensure a thriving community and designing the future of our district relies on us listening to and working in partnership with our community, so we’re all ears. Help us shape the future of Horowhenua, and register to have your say.
Lifecycle
Consultation opens
Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26 has finished this stage
Monday 3 March 2025
Consultation Closes
Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26 is currently at this stage
4pm on Friday 28 March
Hearing of oral submissions
this is an upcoming stage for Proposed Fees and Charges for 2025/26