The deadline for submissions on Masterton District Council's Annual Plan for 2026/27 and Masterton’s plan for the future, Our Future Our Story, is just days away, closing on Tuesday, 28 April.

Under the proposed Annual Plan, an average rates rise of 6.5 percent increase forecast in the 2024 Long-Term Plan has been reduced to an average increase of 5.2 percent.

And after receiving around 2000 pieces of feedback in the first part of the Our Future Our Story project, it’s time to check-in with the community to test what we’ve heard to date.

Ideas on what was important to people included a sense of community, access to the natural environment and community spaces, with a desire to increase opportunities to connect, improved care of the environment, a revitalised town centre, improved transport, and focus on what makes Masterton Whakaoriori unique.

Council Group Manager Strategy Karen Yates said it was important the Council received feedback on the two consultations.

“These two pieces of work will play a big part in what happens in our District, over the next 12 months – and the next 25 years,” she said.

“We want as many views as possible from across all parts of our community.”

Both consultations are accessible online through the Council’s What’s Up, Whakaoriori? page, and website, with hard copies at Council offices on Queen Street and Lincoln Road, and at Masterton District Library.

Consultation closes on 28 April.

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