Wellington City Council is responsible for a whopping 400 services in the city, with many happening behind the scenes.
Many of these services are essential in keeping our city functioning.
If you’ve ever wondered what a council does, here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of the services that help make Wellington tick. You may be surprised at what you find.
- Archives
- Bike parking
- Biosecurity control
- Building consents
- Burials/cremation
- Busking
- Cat microchipping
- Cemeteries
- City planning
- City safety
- Climate action
- Community centres
- Community funding
- Community resilience
- Conservation in the city
- Consultations
- Dog registrations
- Drain maintenance
- Drinking water
- Earthquake strengthening
- Education
- Encroachment licenses
- Event permits
- Food licenses
- Footpaths
- Graffiti removal
- Heritage building management
- Holiday programmes
- Horticulture
- Iwi partnerships
- Laneways
- Lawn mowing
- Libraries
- Memorials
- Mountain biking
- Noise control
- Park Ranger services
- Parking
- Parks
- Permits
- Pest control
- Planting for reserves
- Plant nurseries
- Play events
- Playgrounds
- Plot maintenance
- Public art
- Public events
- Public toilets
- Quarry
- Recreation centres
- Recreation classes for all ages
- Resilience
- Resource consents
- Roads
- Rubbish and recycling
- Seawalls
- Senior citizen events
- Sewerage
- Skate parks
- Social housing
- Southern Landfill
- Sports fields
- Street cleaning
- Streetlights
- Sustainability
- Swimming lessons
- Swimming Pools
- Tracks and trails
- Urban design
- Volunteer coordination
- Waste minimisation
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