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Stretching the Future

Make it Go

Gearing up regional infrastructure to support growth

Key Points

• Infrastructure is a potential impediment to business growth and a key element to returning New Zealand's GDP to the top 10 of the OECD.
• Infrastructure is one of the four limbs of the Growth and Innovation Framework - particularly education, health and technology.
• For success, get key stakeholders involved in the very beginning of a project - consult with all the key stakeholders early.
• Community consultation can be the hardest aspect of the process.
• Successful projects can have a significant positive impact on the whole community.
• Identify your respective areas of responsibility and take advantage of the opportunities. For example, it is local government's responsibility to take advantage of the local framework, regional councils' responsibility to keep up their levels of investment, and industry's responsibility to broaden their view of what constitutes partnerships and funding.
• New local government planning documents will be critical to infrastructure provision in the future.
• Do not assume you know what others want.
• Retain control of the project.
• Firms and consumers need confidence in infrastructure.
• Infrastructure is critical for sustainable development.
• Put infrastructure and other support in place to encourage innovation.

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