Growth Management Strategy for Waitakere
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| Growth Management Strategy for Waitakere |
Background
Waitakere has identified seven strategies that provide a framework for planning
an integrated and sustainable city for the future. These Best for the West
strategies reflect the long-term eco city vision and are consistent with
the councils existing commitments, goals, principles and strategic priorities.
They are written with the view they would be in place for 10 years and reviewed
in three to five years. A set of strategic action plans give effect to the
strategies. These plans are updated more often and inform the department
and section business plans produced for the 10 year plan and are reviewed
each year for the annual plan. The seven key strategies that provide a backbone
for the council's strategic direction are:
Together the key strategies provide an integrated approach to city planning.
For example the strategies are linked to
Waitakere's 10 Year Plan, council activities,
national and regional strategies and plans, and the
Community Outcomes for
Waitakere City.
Growth Management Strategy
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The Growth Management Strategy for Waitakere outlines how expected growth
in population and employment in Waitakere will be managed, within the opportunities
and constraints presented by the various issues facing Waitakere now and
in the future.
The vision for the Growth Management Strategy is: Urban Waitakere will be
transformed from a collection of dormitory suburbs to a more complete and
sustainable urban form. Urban Waitakere will be focussed on three regional
centres at Henderson, New Lynn and Westgate, servicing diverse residential
neighbourhoods, with a rich social, physical, economic and natural fabric.
Waitakere will provide a contained, compact urban form, housing choice,
employment opportunities, and attractiveness to business. Urban Waitakere
sits within a framework of protected natural areas, notably the Ranges and
the Coast and productive rural lands and landscapes.”
This strategy, using data from the 2006 Census, was adopted in June 2009
and published in May 2010. It updates and replaces the Growth Management
Strategy for Waitakere City, August 2006: Working Draft.
The Growth Management Strategy for Waitakere 2010 replaces the 2003 Urban
and Rural Villages platform.
Strategic framework
A strategic framework of
the Growth Management Strategy's outcomes has been adopted as part of the
10 Year Plan 2009-2019.
Addressing growth issues
Waitakere's population is growing quickly and this trend is not expected
to change over the next 50 years. A significant proportion of Waitakere's
workforce currently leaves Waitakere each day for work, a situation that
could be exacerbated by expected population growth. A number of key growth
issues are identified including:
- Projected growth
- Land Constraints
- Business land shortage
- Social Infrastructure
- Climate Change
- Transport
- Energy and ICT
- Three waters
The Growth Management Strategy provides a framework for addressing these
growth issues and accommodating projected population increases whilst also
maximising local employment opportunities in a way that ensures that Waitakere
remains a great place to work, live and play well into the future.
The strategy is intended to provide a broad framework within which individuals,
businesses and the public sector (including the council) can make more informed
and better coordinated decisions in relation to the many decisions they
make, whether that is in relation to the home they buy, the existing and
future business opportunities available, or the infrastructure that is installed.
Growth management principles
The key growth management principles encompassed within the strategy are:
- The majority of growth will be located within the existing urban
area. (urban containment)
- The majority of urban growth will be located around existing town
centres and transport nodes (land-use and transport integration)
- growth and its effects will be managed by promoting quality, compact
urban environments (intensification).
- development outside current urban limits only taking place where
environmental, accessibility and community principles can be met (principled
expansion).
- Most urban growth should be focused around town centres and major
transport routes to create higher density communities, with a variety
of housing, jobs, services, recreational and other activities (mixed
use).
- Much less emphasis on general infill throughout suburban areas (suburban
stability).
- Development of the most highly valued and sensitive natural areas
is avoided (in particular the Waitakere Ranges).
- Major new employment areas will develop in the north of the city.
The strategy is 'spatial' in that it seeks to influence the location, scale,
nature and timing of growth across Waitakere. It contains a
Growth Concept
map showing the locations of key growth areas, and a City Growth Schedule
illustrating the timing of detailed concept planning and development of
these areas.
It is important to note that the strategy will not directly determine the
future of a given area - it does provide the overall strategic framework
and spatial pattern and timing, as well as setting key targets for achievement.
However, it is the consultative Concept Planning process undertaken with
the community of the area, stakeholders, social and physical infrastructure
providers, and the Council, that will determine how a particular area will
develop and evolve into the future.
Following from the Concept Plan, which will set the vision for the area,
changes as required will be made to the
Waitakere City District Plan, council's
activity plans and the
10 year plan to ensure the vision is enabled, serviced
and funded. Social and physical infrastructure provision will be also aligned
and provided as required based on the direction indicated by the Concept
Plan, in accordance with the
Social Infrastructure Framework.
Concept planning
Areas that have been, or are in the process of being 'concept
planned' include:
Other areas will be concept planned in accordance with the City Growth Schedule.
The Growth Management Strategy is reflective of and gives
effect to key Local and Regional Policies and Strategies in particular:
It has also been developed as part of an integrated package of seven key strategies to deliver on the Council's
strategic direction
and the
community outcomes.
The assumptions and principles illustrated in the Growth Management Strategy
have also guided the development of the 10 year plan and activity plans;
as well as development contributions and financial contributions policies
though a growth modelling process which reflected, as a key assumption,
the spatial and temporal outcomes of the successful implementation of the
Growth Management Strategy.
Other Documents
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Strategy documents
The Growth Management Strategy 2010 is split into two parts:
- Volume One concentrates on the strategic context for managing
growth, and on citywide and regional issues.
- Volume Two: Appendices looks in more detail at what form
growth could take and provides more detailed growth area profiles for
the identified growth areas across Waitakere including a past 'potted
history'; a present description and demographic profiles from the 2006
Census; and future growth expectations.
This structure has been developed so that those who are interested in citywide
issues can focus on Volume One, while those interested in a specific
area including how development may occur in the future can focus on Volume Two.
Note: You will need to have
Adobe Acrobat Reader
installed on your computer in order to view and print these documents. For
help opening PDF files or tips on copying information see Helpful
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Due to the size of the documents, they have been divided into sections to allow download
time to be reduced. A full versions of the documents is are also available
to be downloaded.
Volume One entire document (Size 4872K)
Volume Two entire document (Releasing Shortly)
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