The document discusses the infrastructure strategies and collaboration efforts among various councils in Canterbury, focusing on key forums and reviews initiated to develop a common template for infrastructure planning. It highlights the updates needed for the template to be visionary, realistic, and relational, and emphasizes the importance of linking financial strategies and demographic changes to future infrastructure development. Next steps include updating the template to incorporate service level scenario planning and sustainability analysis.

1. Presented by: Ashley Harper – Timaru District Council
Ross Waugh – Waugh Infrastructure

2. Regional Collaboration
 Mayoral Forum
 Chief Executives Forum
o Canterbury Engineering Managers Group
o Canterbury Finance Managers
o Canterbury Policy Managers Forum
o Canterbury Planning Managers

3.  Engineering Managers Group
o Infrastructure Strategy
o Section 17a Reviews
o Preparation of Draft Submissions for Chief Executive
Group
o Shared Services/Collaboration
o Water NZ Benchmarking
o Canterbury Stormwater Forum Overview
o Climate Change
o Drinking Water Quality

4.  Infrastructure Strategy 2015
o Waugh Infrastructure Template: 8 Canterbury TLA’s
 Land Transport
 3 Waters
 Common Approach – very helpful
 Flood Protection excluded – Ecan role

5.  Timaru District Council Infrastructure Strategy
o Followed Template
o Shared Water Scheme?
o NZTA FAR Share
o Identification and allocation of Growth
o LoS
o Renewal
o LoS Statement

6.  Canterbury Infrastructure Strategy Template
o Good take up in Canterbury, plus some other areas
o Provided good basis for development of Strategies
o Timaru and Waimakariri adapted further
o Provided good value for money for Councils
o Further analysis of results in subsequent Canterbury
IS Review
o October 2016 update analysis in preparation for 2017
work, will incorporate this Forum’s perspectives

7.  Canterbury Infrastructure Strategy Review
o Review initiated by Canterbury CE forum
o A range of assumptions were found across
Canterbury, these were highlighted
o Issues and key strategies were recapped
o Review identified peaks in planned infrastructure
procurement
o Canterbury IS Review provides information to feed
into the individual council IS updates

8. Office of Auditor General Matters Arising Report
 Infrastructure Strategy Expectation
 Visionary
 Telling the story where are, where expecting to be,
how intending to get there
 Realistic
 Relevant assumptions and disclosures
 Relational
 Right Debate
 Credible links to Financial Strategies, demographic
change, other influences

9. Canterbury Template Review – October 2016
 Typical Engineers template
 Achieved required objective – 2015 LTP support
 Did not fully cover OAG Visionary, Realistic, Relational
statements
 IS template read as summary of AMP’s
 Template requires updating:
o Strategic Thinking, Telling Story
o Examination of issues, sustainability of services
o Interactive, with improved linkages
o Looking beyond 30 year minimum

10. Canterbury Template Review – Next steps / other issues
Next Steps
 Update template following this Forum
 Include Service Level scenario planning, analysis
 Include long term sustainability analysis in conjunction
with Financial Strategy (s101A/s101B)
Other Issues
 ISO 55000 SAMP linkages
 NZ growth and demographic change dynamics are
‘interesting’ and may require change to lead
infrastructure development
 30 years+ indicative rather than absolute