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Papakura Local
Board
19 February
2014
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Review
of Area Plan Programme
File No.:
CP2014/02172
Purpose
1. To
approve the submission of a proposal to the Auckland Development Committee for
a change to the area plan programme to include a spatial development framework
for the Great South Road corridor and centres.
Executive
Summary
2. The
Auckland Development Committee is currently reviewing the area plan programme.
The committee will be holding a workshop in February to consider current
planning initiatives and the prioritisation and timing of plans in order to
make most effective use of resources.
3. Area
plans help to implement the directions and outcomes of the Auckland Plan at a
local level. They are spatial plans which facilitate place shaping with local
communities. The area planning process entails collaborative working across
council, CCOs and external stakeholders, resulting in an agreed set of actions
for cross-agency delivery. Originally the Papakura Area Plan was not
programmed for commencement until 2014/2015 and the Manurewa Area Plan not
until 2015/2016. These timescales have since slipped due to the resourcing of
the unitary plan preparation and ongoing district plan change work.
4. It
is proposed that the revised area plan programme should incorporate a focused
plan which provides a spatial development framework for the Great South Road
corridor and centres (both existing and emerging); entailing joint working
across Manurewa and Papakura local boards and led at officer level by the Area
Planning South teams. This would be a more effective and constructive use of
resources than preparing two separate board area-wide plans at this point in
time. This joint plan should be programmed for commencement in 2014/2015 as it
deals with complex issues that must be addressed in order to secure the
sustainable growth of the Manurewa and Papakura board areas.
5. A
proposal for the preparation of a Great South Road corridor and town centres
spatial development framework is outlined at Attachment A to this report.
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Recommendation/s
That the Papakura Local Board:
a) Recommends to the Auckland Development Committee that it
consider a change to the area plan programme for the Manurewa and Papakura
Local Board areas that includes a proposal for a spatial development
framework for the Great South Road corridor and town centres (both existing
and emerging) as outlined in attachment A to this report.
b) Recommends that the plan outlined at attachment A to this
report be programmed for commencement in the 2014/2015 financial year.
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Attachments
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No.
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Title
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Proposal for a spatial development
framework for the Great South Road corridor and centres.
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Signatories
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Authors
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Karen Gadomski - Senior Local Board Advisor Papakura
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Authorisers
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Rex Hewitt - Relationship Manager
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Papakura Local
Board
19 February
2014
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Area
Plan Programme – Manurewa and Papakura
Proposal for a spatial development
framework for the Great South Road corridor and centres
The Auckland Plan identifies the southern sub region for
substantial growth in the period to 2040 and the Southern Initiative area for
“coordinated investment and actions to bring about transformational social,
economic and physical change.” Future urban form will comprise “a network of
centres connected by transport corridors” and metropolitan centres will serve
sub regional catchments. Papakura metropolitan centre will service an expanded
urban area - now identified as Future Urban Zone in the proposed Unitary Plan.
Manurewa town centre will serve a more localised area but still one subject to significant
change and intensification. Takanini is identified as an “emergent centre”.
All three centres are connected by an identified Rapid Transit Network and
closely relate to the strategic road network (SH1).
Area plans help to implement the directions and outcomes
of the Auckland Plan at a local level. They are spatial plans which facilitate
place shaping with local communities. The area planning process entails
collaborative working across council, CCOs and external stakeholders, resulting
in an agreed set of actions for cross-agency delivery. It is proposed that the
area plan programme should incorporate a focused plan which provides a spatial
development framework for the Great South Road corridor and centres; entailing
joint working across Manurewa and Papakura local boards and led at officer
level by the Area Planning South teams. This would be a more effective and
constructive use of resources than preparing two separate board area-wide plans
at this point in time.
Issues
to address in the planning process include:
· revitalisation of Manurewa town centre
· repositioning and regeneration of Papakura if it is to
make the step change to a sub regional/metropolitan centre
· improvement of junctions on the strategic road network
and the creation of better east-west linkages
· enhancement of the rapid transit network
· appropriateness of the current industrial zoning along
the Great South Road.
Opportunities
include:
· the commercial success of Takanini emergent centre
(albeit currently at cost to the vitality of the metropolitan centre)
· significant housing and population growth planned at
Takanini and Hingaia
· ongoing investment in the public transport network.
Additionally, the development of Manukau Golf Course for
housing will increase the local population and patronage of the Te Mahia rail
station, which will present opportunities to re-zone and redevelop the car lot
dominated area around the station. The Great South Road corridor has unique
issues and opportunities which require a joined up approach including planning,
economic development, urban design, transport, public service providers and
non-governmental organisations. Planning for the area will require looking at
the functional relationships between centres and how these could be developed
into a complementary network of thriving hubs to serve the expanded population.
Early commencement of a plan focused on this area is vital if the southern
growth area is to be sustainable and form an integrated extension to the
compact city of Auckland.
Manurewa and Papakura Local Boards and the Ward
Councillors fully support this targeted approach to place shaping and spatial
planning for the ward. A range of area plan and master planning work has been
undertaken across the other four southern local board areas recently but
nothing has been resourced within the ward and this deficit should therefore be
addressed in the first year of the revised area plan programme.
The two local boards have small budgets that could be
utilised to pump prime this work in the current financial year. Work can begin
immediately on scoping the plan and defining the area to be covered on the
ground. Although the initial scoping work could be undertaken by external
consultants, this would still require input from the area planning south teams.
In summary, it is felt that transformational social,
economic and physical change in the ward will only be achieved through
organisation wide commitment and the allocation of officer time across council
and CCOs to a spatial development framework.
