Winner Supreme Award and Community Relationships Category
2004
Developing the Kapiti Coast: Choosing Futures - Community Outcomes and Community Plan
“The strategy established was to achieve a consensus vision of the Kapiti Coast's future, one that was practical in fiscal terms, met the legislative criteria, involved maximum input from citizens but did not put the politicians into a straitjacket or present them with an impossible wish list of pie-in-the-sky projects. With a district that includes a number of settlements stretched along the coastline and described as a ‘string of pearls’, establishing a cohesive vision was a challenge. “