02 March 2023 
Official Information Request No. 8140011467 
 (Please quote this in any correspondence) 
AP 
[FYI request #21697 email] 
 
 
Dear AP 
 
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 
Auckland Plan 2050 
 
I refer to your request for information, which we receveid 02 February 2023, about the 
Auckland Plan 2050.  
Details of your request and our response is below. 
“Dear Auckland Council, 
 
I have read the Auckland Plan 2050. I am writing to request information regarding the 
statements: 
 
“Flooding is common”  
“Auckland is remote”  
“People feel isolated”  
“Helensville returns to its estuarine nature”  
“New islands form in the Gulf”  
“Auckland has been redrawn”  
 
Please provide research and communication on how it was known in 2018 (when the plan 
was published) that flooding would become common in Auckland.  
 
If you know that Helensville will be hit, why are residents not urged to leave now?  
 
It seems ironic that flooding is happening when the Three Waters Reform is being pushed.  
 
Also ironic that in 2022 the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and WHO practiced for a 
pandemic where children are targeted and it is a virus that travels in contaminated water” 
 
The statements in your information request are included in a section of the Auckland Plan 
2050 which describes a number of different scenarios of what the future might look like in 
Auckland. There is no specific research or communication that relates to these scenarios. 
They are based in general on the vast body of climate science that has been widely 
available for decades predicting, among other things, sea level rise and intensified rainfall as 
a result of climate change.  
 
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Decisions  relating  to  the  information  that  is  being  released  to  you  were  made  by  Denise 
O’Shaughnessy, Manager Strategic Advice. 
 
Should  you  believe  Auckland  Council  has  not responded  appropriately to your  request,  you 
have  the  right  by  way  of  complaint,  under  section  27(3)  of  the  LGOIMA,  to  apply  to  the 
Ombudsman to seek an investigation and review of the decision. 
 
If you have any further queries please contact me on 09 301 0101 quoting Official Information 
Request No. 8140011467. 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
Fernanda Maciel 
Privacy & Official Information Business Partner 
Governance Services 
Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142  |  aucklandcouncil.govt.nz  |  Ph 09 301 0101 

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