Goal 1: An innovative and growing city

Our aspiration is to be a city that is clever about the way it uses its natural advantages to encourage and support innovation, entrepreneurship and new industries, and positions itself to take advantage of change to fuel sustainable growth, prosperity and wellbeing.

• City Development Strategy

  We will drive entrepreneurship and innovation by providing the support, infrastructure, opportunities and conditions to enable traditional sectors to diversify and expand, and new industries and new economies to grow to create the employment opportunities that sustain and expand our city’s future.

• Economic Development Strategy

  We will drive entrepreneurship and innovation by providing the support, infrastructure, opportunities and conditions to enable traditional sectors to diversify and expand, and new industries and new economies to grow to create the employment opportunities that sustain and expand our city’s future.

• Economic Development Plan

  This plan determines Council’s role in supporting skills development, and the development and support of priority sectors.

• Growth Infrastructure Plan

  This plan signals the critical infrastructure matters needing to be addressed in asset management plans and identifies where further investigation and collaboration is needed for major infrastructure issues.

• Heritage Management Plan

  The Heritage Management Plan will raise the profile of heritage and incentivise people to strengthen earthquake-prone heritage buildings in the city centre.

• Housing and Future Development Plan

  This plan will identify the broad location, timing and sequencing of future development in Palmerston North.

• International Relations Plan

  This plan will guide the direction of Council’s international relationships and encourage international partners to participate in the local and regional economy.

• Strategic Partners Development Plan

  This plan will guide actions that demonstrate how Council will support development undertaken by our strategic partners.

• Strategic Transport Plan

  This plan sets out the strategic infrastructure matters needing to be addressed in asset management plans.

• Urban Design Plan

  This plan sets out a series of initiatives that build on recent progress on urban design, and increase the understanding and application of urban design principles by Council and the private sector.