One Plan

What is One Plan?

One Plan is a single strategic framework and plan of action for the Auckland region.

In the short-term, it is about delivering better on existing decisions and commitments and setting a clear direction for how the region plans to achieve its aspirations for sustainable development.

Longer-term, it is about making and implementing better decisions. Those decisions will be guided by the Auckland Sustainability Framework's vision of a resilient region that can adapt to change.

The Auckland Sustainability Framework and other existing strategies which have shaped One Plan have given rise to the following three objectives and seven programmes of action.

Three objectives:

  1. Implement seven programmes of action to drive the region forward in the short term.
  2. Develop an infrastructure plan (by August 2009), based on an inventory of currently identified priorities.
  3. Identify other priority areas that address important challenges and opportunities for inclusion in future versions of One Plan.

Seven Programmes of Action:

The seven programmes of action will contribute to the goals and shifts described in the Auckland Sustainability Framework, support central government policy platforms to make a significant difference, be transformational and be both regionally and nationally significant in scale and impact.

To be included in this first version of One Plan the programmes must also pass the following tests:

  • achievability,
  • timeliness and,
  • leverage opportunity.

Why are we doing it?

The ambition of One Plan is to:

  • ensure a sustainability focus to decision making by implementing the Auckland Sustainability Framework
  • shift from a business as usual approach
  • increase the certainty and speed of action
  • implement selected significant projects and programmes and maximise the leverage off them
  • align, integrate and prioritise strategic decisions
  • assist in developing existing central government strategy focussed on Auckland.

By pursuing these objectives, here and in future versions of One Plan, we will refocus our regional priorities on the significant economic, environmental, social and cultural challenges that lie ahead.