Vision and Purpose

LINZ exists because New Zealand's economy needs certainty of property rights to function and grow.

The foundation that supports those rights is land information. New Zealand needs systems and processes designed to maintain and deliver quality information relating to our land and sea areas and to manage and enforce land transactions. In this sense, information is essential to our nationhood, legal system, economy and communities. Everyone - from homeowners to emergency services, businesses, iwi, recreational groups and government agencies - needs robust land information.

Our vision that LINZ is valued as the Government's centre of electronic land information and expertise reflects the importance we place on providing trusted and legitimate land information in which the public can have confidence.

The vision also confirms that LINZ will continue to successfully deliver and improve our core business functions. We will use our expertise in land information to work with other government agencies to achieve visible results for New Zealand in the areas of economic development and safety at sea and on the land.

In working towards our vision, we intend to increasingly use electronic channels to optimise the collection, availability and utility of government-owned land information.

The key pillars that support this vision are contained in our purpose: to provide people and systems that ensure confidence in the land rights and geographic information underpinning New Zealand as a nation.

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