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Community Engagement and Consultation

Ruapehu District Council is responsible for making decisions on behalf of its communities aspires to work with its communities to ensure their views and preferences are taken into account.

The Council offers various opportunities for the community to participate in the decision-making processes, including:

  • Long Term Plan (three-yearly);
  • Annual Plan (where there is substantial change to the Long Term Plan proposed);
  • Representation Review; and
  • District Plan Review

Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy provides guidance in terms of how and when the community can expect to be engaged in Council’s decision-making processes.

Community Engagement Strategy

Council aims to accurately represent the wants and needs of our diverse communities, with all communities engaged, informed and empowered in shaping the future of our district.

The Ruapehu District Council Engagement Strategy sits alongside and supports the Significance and Engagement Policy. It acts as a high level strategy to provide a cohesive, flexible and adaptive approach and understanding of engagement across Council.

Special Consultative Procedure

The LGA sets out a community consultation process that must be followed when Council is considering significant issues.

Where required to use Special Consultative Procedure (SCP) Council must:

  • Prepare and adopt a Statement of Proposal and a Summary of the information
  • Endure the Statement of Proposal is publicly available
  • Make the summary of information as widely as reasonably practical as a basis for general consultation
  • Give public notice of the proposal and consultation being carried out with and provide persons interested in the proposal with details of the opportunity to present their views to the Council, the period within which submissions on the proposal will be received (which must not be less than one month)
  • Ensure that any person who makes a submission on the proposal is sent a written notice acknowledging receipt of that person’s submission, and
  • Ensure that all written submissions are made available to the public.
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