• Infrastructure strategies bridge the gap between asset and resource management planning — Infrastructure strategies provide an opportunity to respond to the provisions in resource management plans which have implications for infrastructure.
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• How to make your infrastructure strategy more resilient — Infrastructure strategies are being developed around the country and resilience to climate change and natural hazards is sure to be a key theme in almost all of them.
  
  
• How to avoid writing a dusty infrastructure strategy —  Infrastructure strategies need a good internal structure. They also need to be easy to find. Otherwise there is a risk that a council’s infrastructure strategy will founder like an odd sock at the back of some dusty cupboard.
  
  
• Eight ways to get started on your 2018 infrastructure strategy — Here are some suggestions for getting started, including looking at other councils' 2015 strategies, brainstorming what has changed in the past three years, and reviewing the structure of your 2015 strategy.
  
  
• (Video and blog) Highlighting asset management issues — Infrastructure is expensive, and is the largest portion of the rates bill, by far. And yet asset management plans and infrastructure strategies don't get a whole lot of consideration by councillors and the community.

​Other resources

• Audit New Zealand, Part 4 of Matters Arising from the 2015-25 Local Authority Long-Term Plans
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• Audit New Zealand, pages 20–31 of Asset Management and long-term planning: Learning from audit findings 2015 to 2017 are about 'Strategic asset management and the introduction of Infrastructure Strategies to Local Government'.