The Kaipara District provides for a range of utilities including electricity, telecommunications, reticulated water, wastewater and stormwater. Network utility services provide an important physical resource for the Kaipara District while also providing for the economic and social wellbeing of the Kaipara community. A number of the network utility services are designated (refer to Chapter 21 of the District Plan).

The majority of the established residential settlements within the District have access to public water and most have wastewater reticulation, while most rural areas are not currently serviced. Areas within the District that are currently served by wastewater reticulation systems include the settlements of Dargaville, Kaiwaka, Maungaturoto and Te Kopuru. These settlements currently use oxidation ponds on the edges of their respective settlements and treated effluent from these ponds is discharged onto adjacent land or waterways. Wastewater reticulation has recently been provided in Mangawhai. Conditions of the discharges are controlled under discharge permits issued by the Northland Regional Council. The wastewater systems are maintained by the Council with the costs being met by special rating charges over the properties concerned.

Kaipara also accommodates strategic network utilities including power lines and a natural gas pipeline. These are both important infrastructure assets which provide for electricity and gas both within the Kaipara District and to the wider North Island.

It is also important to highlight areas identified as future growth areas in Part A, Chapter 3A of the District Plan. Prior to development occurring in these areas, a structure planning process is proposed to be undertaken which will, amongst other matters, establish how the area of land will provide for utilities including, electricity, telecommunications and water and wastewater reticulation.