Upper Hutt City Council

Encourage collaboration between businesses, council and community.

Highlight Upper Hutt as a hub for business, tourism and innovation.

Support local businesses to grow, innovate and create jobs.

Prioritise reducing debt, keeping a balanced budget and renewing infrastructure which keeps people employed and continue repaving Main Street.

Support the Upper Hutt job expo to collaborate with businesses and youth advocates and offer council open days for students to learn staff roles.

Combine events and places to visit to encourage visitors to stay and keep car parking free to support local businesses and shoppers.

Work with local businesses to encourage a vibrant shopping district.

Work with developers to further enhance local assets and amenities.

Collaborate with local initiatives like Chamber of Commerce and YMCA, offering options for vocational employment pathways.

Commit to policies making it easier to do business locally, keep spending local and attract new opportunities for growth and innovation.

Commit to well-planned infrastructure to support a thriving Upper Hutt growth that is dependable, equitable and forward focused.

Develop youth apprenticeship and internship programs through partnerships with schools and employers.

Invest in strategic infrastructure projects to enhance tourism and attract new industries to the region.

Support local businesses through grants and training programs to stimulate growth and job creation.

Encourage tourism by providing positive city image marketing to entice tourism business to want to come here.

Provide local businesses with a rates rebate scheme to encourage businesses to grow, succeed and provide employment opportunities.

Work with local businesses to encourage training and hiring of local unemployed youth.

Make it easier to do business by simplifying council rules, speeding approvals, and giving clear guidance to start-ups and locals.

Invest in reliable roads, transport, and digital services so Upper Hutt businesses have the infrastructure they need to grow and succeed.

Create more youth jobs by partnering with local trades, schools, and businesses to provide apprenticeships, training, and work experience.

Connect local youth to local business.

Rectify Upper Hutt's failing central city.

Support local tourism.

Advertise Upper Hutt as a centre for champions at the Centre of Innovation and Sport and other sports facilities.

Encourage outdoor play and recreation for people of all ages.

Promote a zip line flying fox to make use of the Remutaka hills.

Maintain a focus on infrastructure so businesses and developers have confidence to invest, which will create employment.

Support council to work with new businesses to ensure they have what they need to thrive in Upper Hutt.

Advocate regionally for business hubs to be based in Upper Hutt to reduce reliance on the Wellington CBD and bring jobs into the Hutt.

Establish an industrial precinct that increases manufacturing in areas of food, transport, defence and other exportable areas.

Establish and foster a health precinct which supports better healthcare services, attracts doctors and medical device manufacturing.

Establish Upper Hutt as a tourism hub with a luge and gondola as star attractions serving the lower North Island and tourists.

Promote the city as a hub for sustainable business and innovation.

Support local small businesses by reducing unnecessary red tape.

Assess what tools the council has to disincentivise land-banking where appropriate.

Work with community providers and others to support policies designed to improve food security for the most disadvantaged in the community.

Work with the owners of vacant business premises in and around the CBD to understand what they think needs to happen to revitalise the area.

Design a new Upper Hutt tourist map to promote the attractions in the city and make it available online.

Engage with local people to progress stalled community projects where possible.

Project-manage changing council staff requirements to ensure talent and skills are not lost due to changes in the services council provides.

Keep council accountable to commitment to maintain core infrastructure without further financial pressure on ratepayers.

Continue to advocate for and communicate with ratepayers while navigating transition to new water entity.

Collaborate with community about shopping preferences when planning an affordable and accessible future looking at different models.