Unlocking value. Reducing risk. Enabling better communities.
Across New Zealand, councils are under increasing pressure to deliver more for less. Ratepayers expect value, central government demands discipline, and ageing assets continue to carry rising operational, seismic, and climate-related risks.
Align’s Portfolio Optimisation Framework gives councils a structured, defensible way to understand what you own, determine what you should own, and release land and property to support stronger community outcomes.
Why Portfolio Optimisation Matters
Councils face three persistent challenges:
1. Return value to ratepayers
Reduce maintenance and renewal costs
Identify underperforming assets
Release capital from surplus or non-strategic property
Improve service delivery by repurposing, co-locating, or consolidating assets
2. Remove risk
Tackle seismic, flood, and climate vulnerabilities
Clarify asset obligations and remove unnecessary exposure
Support transparent, defensible decisions for audit and governance
Strengthen long-term planning and compliance
3. Reuse land for better community outcomes
Enable housing and mixed-use development
Unlock land for iwi and Crown partnerships
Create space for open areas, resilience infrastructure, or community facilities
Align with local spatial plans, future growth, and long-term strategies
How Align Supports Council
We bring an integrated team across property, planning, statutory navigation, GIS, and community engagement, giving councils a holistic approach from diagnostic to delivery.
Our capabilities include:
Portfolio mapping, categorisation, and strategic assessment
Planning pathways, constraints analysis, and development potential
Site rationalisation, co-location, and reuse strategies
Commercialisation, disposal and divestment planning
Survey and Legalisation
Acquisition and land requirements support
Community and stakeholder engagement
GIS platforms, dashboards, and land intelligence
Implementation support through AoG PPS and direct engagement
Where other firms produce reports, Align delivers change.
Our advice is practical, defensible, and immediately usable by councils.
Our Approach
A proven four-step optimisation process:
1. Diagnose
Understand what the council owns, how it performs, and its long-term obligations.
2. Strategise
Categorise assets and identify opportunities for release, reuse, co-location, or investment.
3. Enable
Confirm planning feasibility, development pathways, land requirements, and risk implications.
4. Deliver
Support disposal, acquisition, engagement, and implementation so councils realise the benefits — not just read about them.
Why Councils Choose Align
Deep experience across local government property, planning, and infrastructure
Trusted to manage sensitive political and community environments
Specialists in land-use, statutory process, PWA/LGA pathways, and GIS-driven analysis
Practical delivery experience across flood resilience, 3 Waters, civic accommodation, and strategic asset programmes
Tools and methods built for scale, from individual parcels to full portfolios
Discover How We Can Help Councils Navigate Change
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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025
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Flood Protection Improvements
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Road & Slip Repairs / Infrastructure Resilience
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Category 3 Buy-Outs
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Align’s Portfolio Optimisation Framework
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Align can help you reimagine your portfolio, reduce long-term risk, and unlock land for communities.
Let’s talk about your portfolio and where we can add value.