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Subject:
RE: LGWM: reconciling key population figures
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From: Andrew Ford <[email address]>  
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Subject: RE: LGWM: reconciling key population figures 
 
All, 
 
Andrew and myself discussed the population / jobs section – as a result I have updated the section in the report with 
the following tables. 
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Any questions, please phone myself / Andrew. The crux of the story is that we are now forecasting more growth 
than we did for the PBC; the revised working assumptions are derived from P4G and WRGF and expressed as a 
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range, acknowledging the fact that we are forecasting 30 yr into the future and a lot could change 
 
Andy 
 
 
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Population  
PBC Assumption (30 year growth) 
assumptions (30 year 
growth) 
Wellington Region  
100,000 to 150,000 
150,000 to 200,000 
Wellington City  
50,000 to 80,000 
60,000 to 80,000 
Central city and inner—city 
18,000 to 28,000 
20,000 to 25,000 
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Western, southern, and eastern 
8,000 to 18,000 
19,000 to 27,000
suburbs
 
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Northern suburbs 
24,000 to 34,000 
21,000 to 28,000 
 
 
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Revised working 
PBC Assumption (30 
Jobs  
assumptions (30 year 
year growth) 
growth) 
Wellington Region  
50,000 — 75,000  
75,000 — 100,000  
Central City  
15,000 – 32,000  
“Primary employment centre”  
 
 
From: Andrew Wharton <[email address]>  
Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2021 2:32 PM 
To: Andrew Ford <[email address]> 
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Subject: RE: LGWM: reconciling key population figures 
 
Hi Andy, 
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Let’s discuss when you’re free – I’ve left you a phone message too. In the meantime here’s my sources, along with 
screenshots from the documents themselves. Do your “modelled” numbers refer to the Sense Partners population 
projections report due imminently? We’re looking forward to seeing their projections. I understand you are the 
client for the regional data, so you may have an early version already.  
 
If you want to reduce the emphasis on the Wellington Regional Growth Framework numbers, we could use the 
Citywide Estimated Growth Distribution Figures source (the latest P4G numbers) if they aren’t too different from 
what comes through from Sense Partners, and below this use Diagram 1: a growth corridor view of the Future 
Development Areas
 for context about how this population growth links into the wider regional story. Though if the 
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diagram is used, it needs to have a note that this is a draft. The local government, central government and iwi 
partners in the area are currently going through a process to endorse the Draft Framework, followed by taking it to 
our communities for feedback. 
 
I hope this helps given the end‐of‐today deadline. 
 
Andrew 
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The PBC numbers I took from page 7 of the Programme Business Case: 
 
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The draft WRGF population numbers come from the Draft Framework Report page 3 and the diagram on page 4: 
 
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The Planning for Growth Figures come from the Citywide Estimated Growth Distribution Figures 25/09/2020, pages 
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Subject: LGWM: reconciling key population figures 
 
Hi gents, 
 
See the comments below from Andy F re the population numbers that we are using the Strategic 
Context technical working paper (and mirrored in the Land Use & Urban Development paper). At 
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the moment we have inconsistencies in terms of the population numbers and demographics that 
are being used and the story being told.  
 
To resolve these issues, could the two of you please reconcile the population numbers and 
demographics that we are to use in the LGWM technical reports. I need the reconciliation done 
by close of play today to meet the deliverable timeframes for the technical papers.  
 
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Thanks in advance. I look forward to receiving confirmation of the population number of 
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demographics that we are to use. If there are any issues in arriving at a reconciled position that 
blows out the timeframes, please let me know. 
 
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