Category: Urban Planning and Design

Looking at Urban Planning and Design

To Apartments We Go – In Auckland #UnitaryPlan

Detached Dwellings Fall Away for Terraces and Apartments This was always going to happen as a City matures and the market provides for what people want rather than what … Continue reading To Apartments We Go – In Auckland #UnitaryPlan

Who has been going and who has not So who has been going and who has not? While if you are not on the Committee being there like Councillors … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan Workshop Attendance. Lacking from some of the Biggest Critics

Need to think laterally on the issue Those who have been watching Unitary Plan developments recently (no not that vote this time) will have heard me refer to the … Continue reading Can We Afford to Push More People From the South Through THIS Bottleneck? #UnitaryPlan

New material means more evidence to be filed I have just sent off some Supplementary Evidence to the Unitary Plan Hearings Panel in light of new material coming out … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan Rezoning for the South Hearing Next Month. More Evidence Filed

Council to take position to send back to the Hearings I see there is a slight flap over the Volcanic View Shafts topic again given the Auckland Development Committee … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan View Shafts Topic Back Before Council

Negative reviews continue When your Twitter timeline lights up over an issue quickly it usually means something large is up. And sure it was with an old subject back … Continue reading North-West Mall (Westgate) Running into Issues?

Where are the people? On Friday the Council released a report in the supply of Business Zones land and their likely capacity through the life of the Unitary Plan … Continue reading #UnitaryPlan Business Zone Capacity Study Interesting. Lacks Human Geography Element

March 18, 2016 ·

Previously withdrawn Evidence back in play before the Panel Well it happened. The out of scope material the 13 Councillors tried to withdraw last month from the Unitary Plan … Continue reading Housing New Zealand Summons Council. All Out of Scope #UnitaryPlan Material Goes Virtual In-Scope

MBIE also rebukes Councillors and implies intervention Housing New Zealand, and the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) (so the Government) have issued their responses to the Council’s … Continue reading Housing New Zealand and MBIE (The Government) Continue #UnitaryPlan Intensification Case

As I thought with the zones Auckland Council has released their ACDC15 (Auckland Council Development Capacity) modelling Excel sheet to the (Unitary Plan) Independent Hearings Panel website for downloading, … Continue reading The ACDC15 Modelling and The Case for the Manukau Super Metropolitan Centre #BetterAuckland