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CONFERENCE: 2011 NEW ZEALAND PLANNING INSTITUTE, WINDS OF CHANGE

This presentation will provide discussion, critical review and learning from the structure planning process for three recent medium to large scale urban expansions in South Auckland. All three have been design based exercises aiming to find the middle road between a number of potentially conflicting issues.

The process has been achieved through a partnership approach between a consortium of private land owners and Local Authority. This apporach, enabled through a Memorandum of Understanding, has allowed private developers to collaborate with the territorial authority to achieve mutual objectives. In this way, the aims of the profit-motivated private sector are balanced with the responsibilites of the Council to protect the pubic good and fulfil wider district needs. Through support, education and consultation, a common platform can be found between the need for Council to achieve robust evidence based planning and design outcomes while achieving landowner interests.

The close relationship between planning and urban design has required a balance between the broad general intentions and strategies of large scale planning and the smaller scale, more specific details. Master plans were used as a tool to guide and test the structure plan and were useful to accurately predict yields and explore the potential outcome of other design concepts. The structure plan however, recognises the value of process and not just product, it illustrates a vision for the town, which will guide many different decisions and responses over time. This is then manifested through the design-based proposed Plan Change to the District Plan to inform the consideration of future consent applications.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (MORE TO BE ADDED SOON)
Conference Presentation
Memorandum of Understanding
2005 NZPI - Planning in Partnership
Open Day Boards

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