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How many kilometres of local road, sealed and unsealed, is each approved organisation responsible for maintaining, and how many rating units are within each district, broken down by organisation and by road surface type?

Answered Question 40230 (2026)
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Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

Question

  • How many kilometres of local road, sealed and unsealed, is each approved organisation responsible for maintaining, and how many rating units are within each district, broken down by organisation and by road surface type?

Answered by

Hon Chris Bishop

Member for Hutt South · National Party · Minister of Transport

Answer

"I am advised that information on the number of kilometres of local roads, including sealed and unsealed roads, maintained by each council road controlling authority (RCA) is reported to NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi by RCAs. This information is publicly available up to the end of the 2024/25 financial year in the Public Sector Roads dataset, available on the NZTA website: Public Sector Roads dataset. I am advised that the data for the 2025/26 financial year will be available on the NZTA website in the coming weeks. I am advised that information on rateable units was sourced by NZTA from Quotable Value and can be accessed from the model that NZTA has published on its website: https://nzta.govt.nz/assets/P-and-I-Knowledge-Base/docs/Normal-FAR-2027-30-model.xlsx. "