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Hawke's Bay Cyclone Recovery — Infrastructure
Crown / Hawke's Bay Regional Council / Napier CC / Hastings DC · Hawke's Bay
Crown-funded infrastructure rebuild following Cyclone Gabrielle (February 2023) — worst natural disaster in NZ's modern history. Includes stop bank repairs, road reconstruction, electricity network rebuilding, and community facility restoration across Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti.
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96/100 · Very likely to proceed
Completion Probability — likelihood this proceeds on roughly its stated timeline.
Funding statusweight 30%
Delivery stageweight 25%
Election / policy riskweight 20%
Govt priority alignmentweight 12%
Project scaleweight 8%
Delivery agencyweight 5%
Key facts
- Region
- Hawke's Bay
- Sector
- Other
- Status
- Under Construction
- Estimated value
- $2.1b
- Indicative completion
- 2026
- Funding status
- Fully Funded
- Lead organisation
- Crown / Hawke's Bay Regional Council / Napier CC / Hastings DC
- Election risk
- Safe
Election risk assessment
Emergency/resilience rebuild after Cyclone Gabrielle. Bipartisan support.
Government priority alignment
HIGH — Cyclone Gabrielle resilience rebuild — strong alignment with the GPS resilience priority and bipartisan recovery focus.
Chronology
- 2023Cyclone Gabrielle (Feb 2023) — NZ's worst natural disaster in modern history. Hawke's Bay worst affected. State of national emergency declared
- 2023Crown commits $500M+ emergency recovery funding. Recovery agency established
- 2023Stop bank repairs begin. Road reconstruction underway across Esk Valley, Tutaekuri, and Ngaruroro corridors
- 2024Major stop bank and flood protection reconstruction underway. Managed retreat discussions for worst-affected areas
- 2025Community facility restoration continues. Power network resilience upgrades
- 2026Target for core infrastructure rebuild completion