Upper Harbour Local Board

Work with Auckland Unlimited to showcase our local businesses and promote North Harbour as a tech and innovation hub.

Promote youth employment initiatives, eg Youth Employment Traction Hub to fast track youth that are not in education, employment or training into jobs.

Support our local business associations to promote their businesses and advocate for infrastructure to support the local economy.

Pilot a youth employment program called Clean and Green so they learn how to take care of their community, and paid in the process.

Support more activity such as more ferries from town to business hubs like West Habour's Hobsonville Marina, Catalina Bay Precinct.

Commit to the creation of a new business improvement district (BID) in the Northwest area to support the business community in that area.

Local council should be tendering to local businesses.

Incentivise local businesses to work with their local schools for job experience and student leavers.

Complete current infrastructure projects before entertaining more projects. All new infrastructure should be following a coordinated plan.

Work on a regular basis to promote local businesses via a dedicated association to identify on-going needs and enable market improvement.

Set up infrastructure (admin, staff) to create a local business network (eg NowBiz) to offer businesses a platform to promote and connect.

Stimulate growth in local jobs to boost the local economy by encouraging businesses to hire local, and all in general to support local biz.

Implement and expand with local and central government, employment opportunities for all ages, for Aucklanders from youth to baby boomers.

Support strongly retail businesses in stopping, preventing,and pre-empting ram raids and assisting rebuilding of our local retail businesses

Restructure, re-align and re-affirm full local government support for local tourism and rebuilding restaurants, cafes and food, veg stores.

Support environmentally sustainable entrepreneurship and social enterprises, for instance funding initiatives that promote a circular economy.

Fund young enterprise initiatives that provide business experience to young people.

Advocate for sufficient quality employment land within Albany and Hobsonville Point to provide quality jobs for local people.

Promote local business and networks. Support the establishment of a Business Improvement District programme in North West.

Listen to young peoples opinions. Create employment pathways for students to owners. Promote free trades training and apprenticeships.

Support tourism infrastructure, fund cultural events. Promote Upper Harbour as a gateway destination to North West from the city via public transport.

Reward youth employment incentives which young people can utilise on a part time basis leading to a conscious career choice.

Reestablish trade training after hours at local high schools available to all age groups.

Reward beautification projects driven by young people which involve design and implementation.

Support the current North Harbour Business Improvement District which is incredibly successful and delivering great outcomes.

Advocate for and support the building of the Community Recycling centre in Albany, creating jobs and reducing waste to landfill.

Support youth programs, for example Young Enterprise Program. See if they can be extended to more schools.

Continue to support Business North Harbour to support the economic and social interests of businesses in Albany.

Support the development of an Upper Harbour circular economy plan, to identify local opportunities to reduce waste.

Encourage people to shop local.

Work with school leavers to encourage youth employment for local businesses.

Improve infrastructures to aid more foot traffic to local businesses.

Work with organisations such as Business North Harbour to support, promote and uphold the economic and social interests of local businesses.

Support local businesses, households and groups to build resilience and minimise the impact of future social and economic shocks like COVID-19.

Grow local business, encourage collaboration between sectors, and promote initiatives like buy local, living wage, and circular economy.