Should there be community planning at neighbourhood level?ĭoes it any of that? Some of that? More? None of that? Should there be incentives for more height/less height? Will we see a future more deregulated building environment, or sufficient rules to ensure controls to protect safety, and quality? This draft District Plan amongst other aspects proposes massive permitted changes for the waterfront, civic centre, heritage, densification, and natural sensitive areas (it identifies notable trees) and it has design guides for various areas.ĭo the rules sufficiently protect and enhance, advance and require quality green public open space in our CBD?ĭo they enable warm dry homes for our population?ĭo they enable sufficient affordable homes? Social housing? Papakainga?Īre development rules which require regard for the impact on the natural environment, natural resources, rising sea level, climate change? Are they adequate? The introduction says “The District Plan is essentially a rule book managing development and the environment.” Somewhere, buried online in overlapping pages, it may be possible to find these rules relating to housing and developments, and the future of our city and suburbs. It’s clear that planning officers preparing this document have gone to significant lengths to have it read and commented on. They even care about the Council, the personnel, and the way it functions. Wellingtonians care massively about the future of their city, about housing, poverty, heritage, the paucity of green public open space in the CBD and the waterfront, te Ngakau Civic Square. The approach to this District Plan is entirely different from past District Plans. processes with every effort made to block the public from the basic document by not having it available in a readable form. The Council needs to simplify its consultation processes which quite frankly are a joke with multiple and confusing and expensive but distracting P.R. Not only is it 1000 pages, but it also requires referencing back and forth, and with complex maps. It is a complex document, not designed to be read online. The District Plan will set in concrete the future of Wellington for at least 10 years. However, the spatial plan was looking at space and capacity, not at rules pertaining to development and Wellington’s future. Most of the focus of that discussion was on the perceived impact of the spatial plan on housing and on ‘heritage’ homes. It did so without accurate baseline population projections (which was ultimately admitted by the Council), and without taking into account the massive increased housing and apartment development that is already happening, especially but not only in the CBD. The devil is in the detail but it is not readily possible to find and comment on the detail.įurther there has already been significant comment and effort by many put into the Spatial Plan (a non-statutory document preceding this district plan process) which preceded this process but looked at the capacity of the city to accommodate future projected populations.
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Instead, the public is being redirected away from the fundamental document to all kinds of multiple processes, and even an explanation about how to navigate them. I want to read, absorb and make comment on the original base document. Why? I do not want to be distracted by some P.R. “… Our website has a guide to navigating and reading the online Draft District Plan which you can find here and there is a roadshow event next Saturday at Prefab between 11am-3pm if you would like to speak to a staff member about it.” I received a quick and efficient retort: “ We don’t have hard copies available I’m afraid – it’s a massive document and comes in at over 1000 pages… The other day, I asked the Wellington City Council where could I get a hard copy of the draft District Plan.
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