How the next five years are shaping up
Our Price Submission 2023-28
What’s it going to take to support future generations to thrive?
What’s important to you? And how much are you willing to pay?
Last year over 7,000 of you had your say on some big questions about the future. Your responses are helping us define our charges, and the services and support we deliver for the community you live in, for the next 5 years.
It’s all part of our price submission, our 5-year promise to all our customers.
Thanks for helping to shape our future
To everyone who’s shared with us your stories, ideas and hopes for the future, thank you.
Whether it’s been through one of the online surveys, focus groups, workshops, one-on-one interviews or as part of our community panel, we’re really grateful for your input.
At each stage of our engagement with you, we’ve reviewed and tested your feedback and fed what you told us into the next stage. This has allowed us to build a clearer picture of you what you want from the next 5 years.
As part of this, in late 2021 we formed a 40-member community panel, made up of a cross-section of customers from the community you live in.
Our panel members further explored findings from all our previous customer engagement. Based on these, they then developed 8 recommendations for priority areas and services for the next 5 years they’d like us to consider.
The range of ways our customers had their say.
What you told us
You provided us with some great ideas about how together we can shape the future - and we've noticed some important themes.
We’re progressing through a number of stages on the way to submitting our price submission in September 2022.
At each stage, what you told us has helped shaped the next stage. You can find out more below.
What’s a price submission?
Every 5 years, we review our prices and services. We call this a price submission and its main purpose is to make sure the decisions we make as an organisation best reflect your priorities and deliver on what you value most.
The Essential Services Commission (ESC), our independent regulator, review our price submission. It’s their job to make sure our prices for water and services protect your interests.
What happened last time - our 2018-23 Price Submission
Across 14 months, in person and online, you told us a consistent story about what you expect from us and what you value. Your feedback and ideas shaped our plan (endorsed by the Essential Services Commission) and our commitment to five key customer outcomes. Read more and see how we’re tracking here.