2025-26 Annual Plan

Our 2025/26 Annual Plan was adopted by Council on 26 June 2025 and it's for the second year of the 2024–2027 Three Year Plan (3YP).

This Annual Plan outlines how we'll deliver our major projects and programmes, advance recovery efforts, and meet the everyday needs of our community.

In 2024, we adopted the 3YP with a central goal of “Healing Our Region for Our Future.” This plan builds on that commitment by prioritising progress towards recovery and laying the groundwork for a sustainable and resilient Tairāwhiti. At the heart of our 3YP is a vision of healthy water, healthy land, healthy people, and a healthy future for Tairāwhiti.

While we're committed to delivering our important projects, it's critical that we do so in a way that's both affordable and financially responsible over the long term. Costs continue to rise, and we have a significant recovery bill. Throughout the 3YP, we forecasted rates increases to be no more than 11.4%. For 2025/26, total rates increases have been carefully considered to ensure costs are not transferred to future generations and have been set at 9.95%.

Key rates movements for 2025/26 Annual Plan

For 2025/26, rates increase drivers across the district on most properties include:

• Increases to the general rate on capital value (this will vary from property to property based on capital value) and the Uniform Annual General Charge, which has increased by $143 plus GST - predominantly for recovery rates.
• In dollar terms, over 80% of properties will have an increase of $400 or less.
• For rural properties, 3,800 of those increases are between $150 to $225, mostly affecting properties without reticulated services.
• In Gisborne city, for 10,500 properties, the average increase is $363. This is primarily driven by the cost of reticulated services for wastewater, water supply, and stormwater.
• There are 374 commercial properties increasing between $400 to $750, mostly driven by increased costs in reticulated services and the Uniform Annual General Charge.
• Most of the increases over $1,500 are for high capital value properties in the district (pastoral, forestry, and residential complexes) or properties with a large number of reticulated services.

2025/26 Annual Plan

The plan includes our finances, recovery projects, major projects, other projects, changes to our performance measures, what this means for our ratepayers.