Wellington City Council is responsible for approximately 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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