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The primary strategies are the ‘where we want to go’ of our strategic direction, providing Council’s goals and objectives for each community outcome.

These can be joint strategies or TCC-owned strategies. They have a longer-term view, normally 10 – 30 years.

Find out more information on Our Direction

Tauranga Taurikura – Environment Strategy

Tauranga Taurikura provides a pathway to valuing, protecting and enhancing our natural environment, and through this to prioritising nature in our city.

Tauranga Taurikura - Environment Strategy 2023-2033  (1.2mb pdf)

Tauranga Mataraunui –  Inclusive and Vibrant City Strategy

Tauranga Mataraunui provides a pathway to becoming an inclusive and vibrant city, and through this to lifting each other up. This strategy seeks to support people to flourish.

Tauranga Mataraunui - Inclusive City Strategy 2023-2033 (1.1mb pdf)

Connected Centres Programme

The Connected Centres Programme aims to unlock much-needed capacity for housing development and to resolve transport issues in the western Bay of Plenty sub-region. This is a joint approach which provides direction for the community outcome Tauranga – Tātai Whenua, a well planned city that is easy to move around.  This Connected Centres settlement pattern was then adopted into the SmartGrowth Strategy 2024-2074 as the long-term blueprint for managing growth, housing, infrastructure and transport in the sub-region. 

Connected Centres Programme 2020

The Western Bay Economic Strategy - Te pai me te whai rawa o Tauranga Moana ki te ao

This is a joint approach, led by Priority One, which aims to grow the value of our economy in an intelligent way, creating a prosperous and sustainable region that contributes to improved social, cultural and environmental outcomes benefiting everyone in our rohe.

The Western Bay Economic Strategy

Our Strategy and 2026 Work Programme (Priority One) (227kb pdf)