2 Apologies
At the close of the agenda no apologies had been received.
3 Declaration
of Interest
Members are reminded of the need to be vigilant to stand aside from
decision making when a conflict arises between their role as a member and any
private or other external interest they might have.
Specifically
members are asked to identify any new interests they have not previously
disclosed, an interest that might be considered as a conflict of interest with
a matter on the agenda.
The following are declared interests of the Waitakere Ranges Local
Board.
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Board Member
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Organisation / Position
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Sandra Coney
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·
Waitemata
District Health Board – Elected Member
· Women’s
Health Action Trust – Patron
· New Zealand Society
of Genealogists – Member
· New Zealand
Military Defence Society – Member
· Cartwright
Collective – Member
· Titirangi RSA
– Member
· Portage Trust
– Member
· West Auckland Trust
Services - Director
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Neil Henderson
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· Portage Trust
– Elected Member
· West Auckland Trust
Services (WATS) Board – Trustee/Director
· Whau River Catchment
Trust - Employee
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Greg Presland
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· Lopdell House
Development Trust – Trustee
· Titirangi Residents
& Ratepayers Group – Committee Member
· Whau Coastal
Walkway Environmental Trust – Trustee
· Combined Youth
Services Trust – Trustee
· Glen Eden Bid - Member
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Steve Tollestrup
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·
Waitakere
Licensing Trust – Elected Member
· Waitakere Task
force on Family Violence – Appointee
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Saffron Toms
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NIL
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Denise Yates
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· Friends of Arataki
Incorporated – Committee member
· EcoMatters
Environment Trust – Trustee
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Member appointments
Board
members are appointed to the following bodies. In these appointments the board
members represent Auckland Council.
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Board Member
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Organisation / Position
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Sandra Coney
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·
Friends
of Arataki Incorporated – Trustee
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Neil Henderson
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·
Friends
of Arataki Incorporated – Trustee
·
Rural
Advisory Panel - Member
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Steve Tollestrup
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·
Glen
Eden Business Improvement District
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Greg Presland
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·
Glen
Eden Business Improvement District (alternate)
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Saffron Toms
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·
Ark in the Park
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4 Confirmation
of Minutes
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That the Waitākere Ranges Local Board:
a)
confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting,
held on Thursday, 22 June 2017, as a true and correct
record.
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5 Leave of Absence
At the close of
the agenda no requests for leave of absence had been received.
6 Acknowledgements
At the close of the agenda no requests for acknowledgements had been
received.
7 Update from Ward Councillors
An opportunity is provided for the Waitakere Ward Councillors to
update the board on regional issues they have been involved with since the last
meeting.
8 Deputations
Standing
Order 3.20 provides for deputations. Those applying for deputations are
required to give seven working days notice of subject matter and applications
are approved by the Chairperson of the Waitākere Ranges Local Board. This
means that details relating to deputations can be included in the published
agenda. Total speaking time per deputation is ten minutes or as resolved by the
meeting.
At the close
of the agenda no requests for deputations had been received.
9 Public Forum
A period of
time (approximately 30 minutes) is set aside for members of the public to
address the meeting on matters within its delegated authority. A maximum of 3
minutes per item is allowed, following which there may be questions from members.
At the close of the agenda no requests for public forum had been
received.
10 Extraordinary Business
Section 46A(7) of the Local Government Official Information and
Meetings Act 1987 (as amended) states:
“An item that is not on the agenda for a meeting may be dealt
with at that meeting if-
(a) The
local authority by resolution so decides; and
(b) The
presiding member explains at the meeting, at a time when it is open to the
public,-
(i) The reason why
the item is not on the agenda; and
(ii) The
reason why the discussion of the item cannot be delayed until a subsequent
meeting.”
Section 46A(7A) of the Local Government Official Information and
Meetings Act 1987 (as amended) states:
“Where an item is not on the agenda for a meeting,-
(a) That item
may be discussed at that meeting if-
(i) That
item is a minor matter relating to the general business of the local authority;
and
(ii) the
presiding member explains at the beginning of the meeting, at a time when it is
open to the public, that the item will be discussed at the meeting; but
(b) no
resolution, decision or recommendation may be made in respect of that item
except to refer that item to a subsequent meeting of the local authority for
further discussion.”
11 Notices of Motion
There were no
notices of motion.
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Waitākere
Ranges Local Board
13 July 2017
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Auckland
Plan refresh 2018: early feedback to inform draft plan
File No.: CP2017/11829
Purpose
1. This report invites formal feedback from local boards on high-level,
strategic themes and focus areas to guide development
of the draft refreshed Auckland Plan.
Executive summary
2. The Auckland Plan sets out a bold and ambitious 30-year vision to
guide the growth and development of Auckland. The
plan is our key strategic document that informs regional priorities that will
be funded through the LTP 2018-28. The current Auckland
Plan was adopted in 2012 and provided strategic direction in a number of
significant areas. The refresh provides an opportunity to revisit
Auckland’s most challenging issues in light of changes since the plan was
adopted to ensure it continues to be a useful guiding document for Auckland.
3. The refreshed plan will be more focused on a small number of
inter-linked strategic themes that address Auckland’s biggest
challenges. These themes are:
· Access and Connectivity
· Protect and Enhance
· Homes and Places
· Belonging
· Skills and Jobs
4. The plan is also intended to have a greater focus on the development
strategy, which must achieve the social, economic, environmental and cultural
objectives of the plan.
5. Over the last five months, local boards have been involved in
Planning Committee workshops and local board cluster briefings on the Auckland
Plan refresh as part of their shared governance role.
6. Local
boards are now invited to consider their formal position on the themes and
focus areas and provide further feedback. The formal feedback will be
considered by the Planning Committee at its meeting on 1 August 2017.
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Recommendation/s
That the Waitākere Ranges
Local Board:
a) provide feedback, including any specific feedback on the
challenges, opportunities, strategic themes and focus areas.
b) note that the resolutions of this meeting will be reported back to
the Planning Committee when it meets to decide on direction to inform the draft
Auckland Plan on 1 August 2017
c) note that there will be further opportunities to provide feedback
on the draft plan as council continues through the refresh process during
2017.
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Comments
7. Auckland Council is required under the Local
Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009 to develop and review a spatial plan for
Auckland. The Auckland Plan sets out a bold and
ambitious 30-year vision to guide the growth and development of Auckland. The plan is our key strategic document that informs regional
priorities that will be funded through the LTP 2018-28. The current Auckland Plan was adopted in 2012 and provided strategic
direction in a number of significant areas. The refresh provides an opportunity
to revisit Auckland’s most challenging issues in light of changes since
the plan was adopted to ensure it continues to be a useful guiding document for
Auckland.
8. On 28 March 2017, the Planning Committee endorsed a streamlined
spatial approach for the refresh of the Auckland Plan. The refreshed plan will
be more focused and structured around a small number of inter-linked strategic
themes that address Auckland’s biggest challenges. The key challenges for Auckland are identified as:
· scale and rate of population growth
· greater environmental pressures resulting from
that growth
· uneven distribution of growth benefits.
9. The plan is also intended to have a greater focus on the development
strategy, which must achieve the social, economic, environmental and cultural
objectives of the plan.
10. Over the last five months, local boards have been involved in
Planning Committee workshops and local board cluster briefings on the Auckland
Plan refresh as part of their shared governance role. All local board chairs were invited to the February, March and April
Planning Committee workshops on the Auckland Plan. In the March workshops,
local board chairs generally indicated support for a refresh of the plan.
Chairs (or their representatives) provided theme by theme feedback, noting that
this expresses the views of local board chair(s) only.
11. Local board cluster briefings for local board members were held in
February and April. The February briefing provided an initial introduction to
the refresh. In April, a high-level summary of the Planning Committee
workshop content was presented. Early information and feedback from
local boards was used to refine the scope of strategic themes and focus
areas. Key themes emerging from local board
feedback are included in Attachment B. The results of these workshop discussions fed into an
information report distributed to elected members on 1 May.
12. Local
boards are invited to consider the strategic themes and focus areas and provide
further, formal feedback, including any specific feedback on
the challenges and opportunities.
Strategic
themes and focus areas
13. The high-level, strategic themes and focus areas
are outlined in Table 1. These provide the basis for early. The key
strategic themes include:
· Skills and Jobs: recognizing the importance of skills and jobs in enabling
prosperity and individual and community well-being.
· Belonging: Enabling participation in
society to underpin a sense of belonging. Aucklanders’ willingness
to live and work together and invest in Auckland’s future is based on
trust, tolerance and mutual respect.
· Homes and places: Enabling successful
urban environments. Homes and places influence Aucklanders’ health,
safety and well-being, living standards and financial position.
· Protect and enhance: Acknowledging
the impacts of growth and development on Auckland’s natural environment,
cultural and built heritage, and their contribution to broader outcomes for
Auckland.
· Access and connectivity: Enabling
Aucklanders to get to where they want to go through connections between
Auckland, other parts of New Zealand and the world, both in the physical sense
and by digital means.
14. These strategic themes are intended to provide direction to the
high-level development strategy, which guides how Auckland will grow and
develop and our investment priorities. Further supporting material
is provided in Attachment A.
Table 1: Strategic framework
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Strategic themes
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Focus areas
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Skills and jobs
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Enterprise and
innovation
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Education pathways and
life-long learning
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Retain and attract
talent and investment
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Belonging
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The importance of
Māori and Māori values
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Equitable opportunities
for all to achieve their full potential
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Inclusive, resilient
and thriving communities
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Value and celebrate
Auckland’s diversity
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Homes and Places
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More homes (supply, choice and infrastructure)
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Affordable, safe,
stable homes
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Urban areas that work
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Protect and Enhance
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Sustainability and
resilience embedded in how we grow and develop
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Environment and
cultural heritage are critical to broader outcomes
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Recognise and provide
for role of Māori
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Access and
Connectivity
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Easy to get to where you
want to go
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Enabling and
supporting growth
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Implement Auckland
Transport Alignment Project
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Minimise harm (road accidents and deaths, environmental and
cultural impacts)
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15. The following questions may be useful in structuring feedback:
· What
are the key challenges and opportunities facing Auckland in the future?
· What
are the regional priorities for Auckland over the next 30 years from your local
communities’ perspectives?
· Do
the strategic themes and focus areas capture your communities’ regional
priorities?
· Are
we focusing on the right things?
· Are
there any gaps?
Relationship to local board plans
16. In April/May 2017, local boards adopted their draft local board
plans. Many local boards used direction provided
by the Auckland Plan when preparing their draft local board plans to support
better alignment between local and regional investment and activities.
It is anticipated that the draft plans and ongoing discussion
with communities will continue to inform local boards’ input to the
Auckland Plan.
17. Local board plans will help inform the draft LTP 2018-28 budget
decisions. This includes the identification of locally driven initiatives
and advocacy initiatives, which will deliver on local board outcomes.
Based on an analysis of the draft local board plans 2017, there is strong
alignment between draft local board plan and the Auckland Plan outcomes.
Next steps
18. Local boards are well-placed to provide input on
regional priorities following public engagement on their draft local board
plans.
19. Further engagement with local boards on development of the draft
plan will take place as part of the local board cluster workshops in July 2017.
20. On 1 August 2017, the Planning Committee will meet to agree
direction to guide the draft Auckland Plan. Local boards’
formal feedback will be considered by the Planning Committee at its meeting on
1 August 2017.
21. There will be further opportunities to provide feedback on the draft
plan as council continues through the refresh process.
Consideration
Local board views and implications
22. Local board feedback is being sought in this report.
23. A summary of feedback received from local board members to date is
provided in Attachment B.
24. Local boards play an important role in relation to the content of
the Auckland Plan through communicating local views to the governing
body and providing input to regional strategies, policies and plans.
25. The refreshed plan will inform regional priorities that will be
funded through the LTP 2018-28.
Māori impact statement
26. The
council is required to provide opportunities for Māori engagement and to support Māori capacity to participate in decision-making. When making
significant decisions in relation to land or a body of water, the council must
take into account the relationship of Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral land,
water, sites, waahi tapu, valued flora and fauna and other taonga.
27. Staff
from the Independent Māori Statutory Board (IMSB) provided guidance on the
strategic themes. The IMSB’s Māori Plan for Tāmaki Makaurau was a guiding document
underpinning the development of the strategic themes and focus areas.
28. The
strategic themes acknowledge and celebrate Māori culture as
Auckland’s point of difference, and mana whenua as Treaty partners in a
multicultural Auckland.
29. An additional Māori theme is in development following a request
from the Planning Committee. Further engagement with mana whenua and mataawaka
is planned in developing the draft plan.
Implementation
30. Feedback
from the local boards will be summarised and provided
in full to the Planning Committee for consideration in
decision-making to guide development of the draft plan.
Attachments
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No.
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Title
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Page
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a⇩ 
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Auckland Plan Refresh: Theme Summary
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15
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b⇩
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Auckland Plan Refresh: key themes emerging from
local board feedback
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23
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Signatories
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Authors
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Karryn Kirk - Principal Strategic Adviser Auckland
Plan Implementation
Denise O’Shaughnessy - Manager Strategic Advice
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Authorisers
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Jacques Victor - GM Auckland Plan Strategy and
Research
Glenn Boyd - Relationship Manager Henderson-Massey,
Waitakere Ranges, Whau
Karen Lyons - General Manager Local Board Services
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Waitākere
Ranges Local Board
13 July 2017
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Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of
Animals in Research and Teaching Ltd (ANZCCART) Conference 2017
"Maintaining Social License in a Changing World"
File No.:
CP2017/12774
Purpose
1. This
report seeks approval for the Waitakere Ranges Local Board Member Neil
Henderson to attend the Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of
Animals in Research and Teaching Ltd (ANZCCART) Conference 2017 to be held in
Rydges Queenstown from Saturday 2nd September to Monday 4th September as a part
of Queenstown Research Week.
Executive Summary
2. ANZCCART
is an independent body which was established to provide a focus for
consideration of the scientific, ethical and social issues associated with the
use of animals in research and teaching. Within New Zealand this also includes
animal use in toxicity or potency testing. Animal use is often the subject of
lively debate. ANZCCART seeks to promote effective communication and
co-operation between all parties and to assist in the resolution of potential
conflicts by promoting awareness of concerns and solutions to problems.
3. The
theme of this year’s conference will be “Maintaining Social License
in a Changing World” reflecting our view that the responsible use of
animals in research and teaching is a socially positive activity, which ought
to be defended freely. Society continues to afford the research and teaching
community its continued consent because the legal framework under which we
operate is well enough trusted, and while societies viewpoint has shifted over
the years and decades and the direction is always towards greater not less
attention to animal welfare
4. ANZCCART
operates on a purely advisory basis and provides guidance and information to all
interested parties including Animal Ethics Committees (AEC), scientists,
teachers, regulatory authorities, granting agencies, government, animal welfare
organisations, the media and the general public.
5. Delegate
full registration costs at $660.00 per person and estimated costs for airfares,
accommodation and transfers is $1,850.00.
Implementation
6. Local
Board Services has resources available to support board members learning and
development through such activities as attendance to conferences which are
related to their portfolios and responsibilities.
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Recommendation/s
That the Waitākere Ranges Local Board:
a) approve
Member Henderson’s attendance to the Australian and New Zealand Council
for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) Conference 2017
to be held on 2nd September to 4th September as a part of Queenstown Research
Week.
b) Agrees that any related expenses for
attending the Australian and New Zealand council for the Care of Animals in
Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) Conference 2017 be provided for in
line with the latest Auckland Council's Elected Members' Expense Policy 2016.
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Attachments
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No.
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Title
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Page
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a⇩
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ANZCCART 2017 Programme
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27
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b⇩
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ANZCCART-Conference-Flyer
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29
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Signatories
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Authors
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Tua Viliamu - Democracy Advisor
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Authorisers
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Glenn Boyd - Relationship Manager Henderson-Massey,
Waitakere Ranges, Whau
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