Election 2017 - Party Policies - Economy/Primary Industries and Rural Issues - Regional Development
27th May 17, 9:14am
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Regional Development
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- Ensuring regions facing growth pressures are supported to manage this in ways that promote sustainability and cohesion.
- Working with local government to pursue a co-ordinated approach to infrastructure development to enhance the sustainable economic potential of New Zealand, including building capacity in the regions and promoting hubs of specialist economic activity.
- Ensuring all regions have core transport, information, energy infrastructure, and health and education services available.
- Ensuring, to the extent practical, that critical services are not exposed to undue risk from concentration in one centre (e.g. data storage).
- Attracting investment through building on regional assets and improving the attractiveness of the region as a place where investors want to live.
- Read more here.
- Introduce a $200m Regional Development Fund to unlock the economic potential of as many regions as possible.
- Set up a Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) in Dunedin. The Centre will build on existing gaming and digital businesses and the existing academic centres. CODE would cost around $10m over ten years.
- Canterbury: establish a $300m capital acceleration facility to develop the red zone, contribute towards a new stadium and deal with the gaps in the horizontal infrastructure programme in partnership with the Christchurch City Council as part of the Global Settlement.
- Progress the development of a Primary Industry Council and pan-sector strategy to fuel value-added growth for the sector and our economy.
- Boost the size and scope of the Sustainable Farming Fund (such as by reprioritising Primary Growth Partnership funding), while maintaining the underlying social and environmental values of the fund.
- Read more here, here, and here.
- Appoint Regional ambassadors for every region in the country to work with communities, mana whenua, Ministers and central and local government to advocate for the region, act as a conduit between the Crown and the region and help solve problems and facilitate regional initiatives.
- Invest in regional, national and international economic growth and development that will create jobs, training and business opportunities.
- Improve access to vocational training and pathways in rural and isolated Māori communities.
- Establish an Expert Advisory Group to Government to evaluate “Economic Hotspots” and identify opportunities that will stimulate provincial economies.
- Support paid regional community internships programme for skilled migrants, refugees, and international students graduating from a New Zealand tertiary institution to support the regions to grow.
- Read more here, here, and here.
- By 2022, 87 per cent of New Zealanders will have access to UltraFast Broadband and 99 per cent will have access to high speed internet through the Rural Broadband Initiative.
- Building infrastructure to support growth in our regions with Accelerated Regional Roading Projects, new Roads of National Significance and broadband expansions throughout New Zealand.
- Help young families into their first farms by allowing young farmers to buy state owned farms after they've worked the land for five to ten years.
- Contribute an extra $120 million toward the construction of a Multi-Use Arena in Christchurch, taking the Government's total contribution to $179 million.
- Invest up to $6 million from the Regional Growth Programme to make the Whanganui Regional Velodrome redevelopment project a reality.
- Read more here, here, here, here, and here.
- Establish regional funds to receive revenue from the return of GST from foreign tourism and Royalties for Regions.
- Ensure the involvement of local people in decision making over the use of these funds.
- Provide economic and social benefits conferred to regional communities through the scheme which will allow local communities to plan and spend more efficiently and effectively.
- Match rural infrastructure, health and social equality with the cities.
- Explore initiatives to end a growing rural-urban divide.
- Read more here and here.
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