Swanson

Swanson is undergoing major upgrading during 2001/02.

Town centre revitalisation

Structure plan

Town Centre Revitalisation

A community-led process in 1998 - “Swanson: Beyond 2000” – has provided the basis for significant upgrading of the Swanson area. The process led to a vision and then to a staged programme of capital projects - the Swanson Village Revitalisation programme.

Traffic calming has been identified as a priority and five traffic islands in conjunction with the kerb and channelling will be put in place along Swanson Road during the summer of 2001/2002.

Future stages of the Revitalisation programme will be planned between Council and the community. These include tree planting along Swanson Rd and the development of two parks in the Swanson area – land on the corner of Swanson Oaks and Swanson Rd, and the land between the rail station and service station.

Art design

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The Heart of this Place - Arts Design in Waitakere City
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Structure Plan

The 1200 hectares of the Swanson Structure Plan area includes all land in the Swanson catchment that is identified in the District Plan as Foothills Environment. The draft structure plan recommends some additional subdivision opportunities where they would be consistent with the existing landscape character and environmental and amenity values.

Included is 41 hectares of green-fields south of Swanson Village, known locally as the Penihana land. The Council and the community are currently working through a planning process to determine the extent to which this land may be suitable for urban development, given its close proximity to the Swanson railway station and that it is within the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage District.

The Council made decisions on the submissions to the Swanson Structure Plan in January 2003. 19 Environment Court appeals have been lodged on those decisions, with many parties registering their interest in those appeals. Resolution of those issues is awaiting the outcomes of the Structure Planning Review and the Waitakere Ranges Protection Project.

Swanson Structure Plan (Size 475K)