What you told us

CLOSED: This discussion has concluded.

As part of our early planning for this Long-Term Plan, we carried out informal consultation last year to seek community feedback on what the Council’s priorities and funding strategies should be over the next 10 years.

We held a community workshop with a cross-section of residents, representing a range of ages, backgrounds and locations. We then identified key themes from this workshop and developed an online survey to explore these issues further.

Here are some of the key things people told us were important to them:

Selwyn retaining its distinct rural character
Maintaining a clean, safe and consistent water supply
Providing and maintaining safe and quality roads.

The top five priorities that people thought the Council should invest more funding in included safe intersections, safe drinking water, quality roads, roading connections between towns, and providing facilities and services for teenagers.

The survey also indicated that a proportion of residents would be happy to pay a little more in rates for some of these priority activities, including providing safe drinking water, making roads and intersections safer, and providing facilities for teenagers.

This feedback has been useful in helping us set our priorities for the coming years – and the proposed projects and work programme in this Long-Term Plan show the Council is responding to many of the issues highlighted by the informal consultation.

For a summary of the early consultation findings, see the Which Way? Pre-consultation engagement findings report.