In 2007, when Future Proof began, our mandate was to primarily address issues around land-use and infrastructure, particularly transport and to plan for the wider impacts of growth.

Those fundamentals have not changed but as the environment around us has, our work and our relationships have changed with it.

In 2019, Future Proof formally welcomed Central Government to our existing partnership. By then, the work of Future Proof had been recognised nationally by policy and decision-makers and was considered integral to the managed growth of our wider sub-region.

In recent years, our mandate has expanded to focus on other key areas including housing, economic development, climate change and integration of land-use and transport connections between Hamilton and Auckland (H2A) and Hamilton and Tauranga.