INITIAL POLICY POSITION
The next Local Government elections are in October 2025. This page will highlight our ideas and policies we believe will achieve a Better Wellington. We will build on Policy Pillars that will be based on data and polling and we will urge and ask all candidates to support and stand by these pillars.
These will be released shortly.
Our initial policies and value statements are:
- Wellington City will be better served by councillors who are independent. Party politics doesn’t belong around the council table. Decisions must be made in the best interests of the city; not made along ideological party lines. Councillors can’t serve two masters at the same time: Wellington City must be the priority. Whether it’s Green Party, Labour, National or whatever, Better Wellington rejects all candidates running on a party ticket.
- Councillors are to govern. We elect people to lead, not be led. Wellington City needs councillors who are ready, willing and able to make the Council staff accountable to the elected representatives. We don’t want bureaucrats determining the direction of our city!
- It’s time to rein in excessive and unnecessary costs. The Council has spent millions of dollars on consultants and bureaucrats. All spending must be re-assessed. Back to the drawing board!
- Better Wellington seeks a freeze on the employment of new staff and it must cut back on existing staff numbers. Did you know there are around 58 staff employed in communications? What do they do? Or the 38 staff in the office of Climate Change.
Time to re-think the machine!
- Wellington cannot function unless its match-fit and operational. The “nice-to-haves” must be put on hold and instead focus on critical basic infrastructure and services. This must be a priority.
- End the Golden Mile … We think there’s clear and overwhelming opposition to this development.
- The Wellington City Council roading section needs to be reined in … their entire view on people using their private vehicles is out of control and dictated by ideology! The adverse effect on commerce and retail trade has been enormous.
- Wellington City must be kept affordable. The city must live within its means. ZERO rates increases.
- It is not Wellington ratepayers’ responsibility to pay for social housing. Put that back onto central government.
- Safety, particularly in the Central Business District, must be paramount. Time to clean up the CBD. Wellingtonians and visitors alike would welcome an inviting environment.
- All work on cycle lanes must cease and re-evaluated. Cycle ways must not be at the expense of vehicle car parks. Do cycle lanes really need to be on main thoroughfares?
- Only a positive, cohesive Council will yield a multicultural, desirable future; a city within which everyone is pleased to live and work.