Christchurch was devastated by earthquakes in 2011. This significantly disrupted residential and business land supply, as some land could no longer be lived or worked on.

In the 30 years between now and 2050, Wellington expects to welcome 80,000 new residents. The Draft Spatial Plan was produced as a guide to a compact, resilient, vibrant, prosperous, inclusive, connected, and greener Wellington that accommodates this projected population growth.

Every 3 to 5 years, Infrastructure Victoria updates their 30-year strategy and makes recommendations to the Victorian Government on how to address infrastructure challenges.

In late 2022, the Christchurch City Council (CCC) sought the opinions of people in the Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour and Koukourarata Port Levy areas to assist with the Coastal Hazards Adaptation Planning programme.

Planning for Growth builds on the goals from Our City Tomorrow — Wellington’s Ten Year Plan — and includes a review of the Wellington Urban Growth Plan, as well as the District Plan — both of which impact and shape Wellington's urban environment.

Tauranga City Council (TCC) developed the Long Term Plan (LTP) 2018-2028 for the vision, direction, budget, and work plan of Tauranga over the next ten years. TCC sought public feedback regarding the LTP and insight into what the Tauranga community wanted for their city and how they thought it should be funded.

With a view to improve waterways quality, the Christchurch City Council (CCC) engaged Global Research to investigate Christchurch citizens’ attitudes and behaviours regarding waterways; how they value them; assess their quality; treat them; and, the actions they are prepared to take to improve them. The research was a component of the proposed Community Water Partnership Initiative.

In 2013 the five Lincoln Hub Partners (AgResearch, DairyNZ, Landcare Research, Lincoln University and Plant and Food Research) embarked on an ambitious plan to bring their organisations closer together to deliver greater land based sector returns for New Zealand.

Christchurch’s central city was decimated by 2010/2011 earthquakes, around quarter of all buildings and half of buildings five stories or higher were damaged beyond repair.

The destructive 2010 - 2011 Canterbury earthquakes severely damaged much of Christchurch’s sporting infrastructure.  This included the main track and field, hockey and tennis facilities being damaged beyond repair.