About the Plan

The National Infrastructure Plan aims to give New Zealanders greater confidence that the infrastructure we all rely on is well planned, provides value for money, and meets the needs of today and tomorrow.

The Plan will help guide decision-making by both central and local government and give the infrastructure industry more confidence to invest in the people, technology and equipment they need to build more efficiently.

The Plan gives us a long-term view, and answers some key questions:

• What’s needed and what should we be spending over the next 30 years?
• What’s our planned investment over the next 10 years?
• What’s the gap between the long-term infrastructure need and planned investment? How do we address that gap?

The National Infrastructure Plan isn’t about identifying a multi-decade list of projects. Instead, it’s an opportunity to give us greater certainty about what we should build.

It builds on our work for Rautaki Hanganga o Aotearoa, the New Zealand Infrastructure Strategy, which made recommendations and set objectives for improving New Zealand’s infrastructure system.

From draft to final

In June 2025, we published a draft version of the Plan and asked for feedback. Over six weeks, we heard from over 2700 individuals and businesses from across New Zealand, as well as from the Minister for Infrastructure. We also met with a large number of agencies, local government representatives and businesses to discuss what they would like to see change for the final version.

The feedback we received was reviewed and incorporated into the final National Infrastructure Plan. This was submitted to the Minister for Infrastructure at the end of 2025.

Under our legislation, the Minister for Infrastructure must table the Plan in the House of Representatives as soon as practicable after receiving it. Once the Plan has been tabled, we’re required to publish the Plan on our website.

After receiving the Plan, the Government has 180 days to respond.