Andrew Little: Wellington Mayor on the government progressing with rate caps

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 1, 2025 · 3m · transcript

Agreement from Wellington's Mayor over council rates needing to be kept in check.

The Government's proposing to cap rates increases at 4% a year, with only water rates and other non-rates revenue to be excluded.

Wellington Mayor Andrew Little says rates increases are due to decades of under-spending.

However, he told Ryan Bridge the Government's tapped into a justified concern.

Little says a lot of people are watching rates rise astronomically along side other costs, and councils need to do a better job at controlling this.

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