Plan Change 40

Decision

At a meeting held on 12 March 2008 and reconvened on 13 March, 14 March, 17 March, 19 March and further reconvened on 8 April 2008, the Hearings Committee resolved to decline the application. Full details and reasons for the decision can be read below.

• Plan Change 40 - Decision (PDF 82kB)

Summary

Te Aute Road General Residential Zone - Plan Change 40

Hastings District Council has received a request from Te Aute Holdings Limited for a change to the Hastings District Plan, referred to as the Te Aute Road Private Plan Change 40. The Plan Change Request seeks to rezone an area of land from Plains to General Residential providing for residential development.

The proposed area to be rezoned comprises 9.4449 hectares and is located on the northwestern side of Te Aute Road, immediately to the southwest of the Herehere Stream and immediately adjacent to the Karamu Stream, as shown on the site plan below:

The site is contained within the following Certificates of Title:

Along with rezoning the land to General Residential, the Plan Change requests the following associated changes be made to the District Plan:

• Include the proposed rezoning area as the Te Aute Road New Development Area in Section 2.4: Urban Development and Strategic Directions of the Hastings District Plan.
• Include a structure plan for the Te Aute Road New Development Area in the Hastings District Plan.
• Include new performance standards and outcomes in Section 8.0: Residential Zones of the Hastings District Plan relating specifically to yard setbacks, site coverage and landscaping, and screening within the proposed Te Aute Road New Development Area.
• Include a new performance standard and outcomes in Section 15: Subdivision and Land Development of the Hastings District Plan relating specifically to the proposed Te Aute Road New Development Area.

Effectively the proposed plan change will enable residential development at an average density of 1 dwelling per 700m² with a minimum lot size for subdivision of 400m². Development on the site will connect to the existing Havelock North water and wastewater reticulation networks.

A “Low Impact Development” stormwater disposal system is proposed to cater for stormwater disposal. Access to residential development is proposed via new roads intersecting with Te Aute Road. Reserves are proposed to provide recreational access to the streams.

The application is accompanied by a comprehensive assessment of environmental effects arising from the proposed development.

This includes assessment of the traffic impacts on Te Aute Road, landscape and urban design considerations, the impact on the productivity of the Plains Zone, civil engineering and geotechnical considerations, natural hazards and low impact stormwater solutions.

Read the application

• Application (PDF 7.6MB)
  
• Appendix 1 - Certificates of title (PDF 273kB)
  
• Appendix 2 - Te Karamu Plan Phase One Enhancement Works (PDF 1.2MB)
• Appendix 3 - Landscape and Concept Subdivision Plan (PDF 1.1MB)
• Appendix 4 - Engineering Feasibility Report (PDF 1.8MB)
• Appendix 5 - Unison Comments (PDF 100kB)
• Appendix 6 - Traffic Impact Assessment (PDF 1.9MB)
• Appendix 7 - Geotechnical Assessment (PDF 1.8MB)
• Appendix 8 - Soils Residual Chemical Contamination Assessment (PDF 646kB)
• Appendix 9 - Archaeological Assessment (PDF 6.5MB)
• Appendix 10 - Landscape and Visual Assessment (PDF 11kB)
• Appendix 11 - Potential Landscape Amenity Values (PDF 2.9MB)
• Appendix 12 - Assessment of Productive Capacity of Soil (PDF 867kB)
• Appendix 13 - Copies of Correspondence (PDF 785kB)
• Appendix 14 - Technical Paper - Costing Low Impact Stormwater Devices (PDF 4.8MB)
• Appendix 15 - Civil Engineering Report (PDF 282kB)

Submissions

• Summary of submissions (PDF 56kB)
• Full submissions (PDF 5.24MB)

Further submissions

The closing date for further submissions was 24 October 2007.

• Further submissions (PDF 1MB)

Hearing

The hearing for this application is scheduled for March 12 2008

More information

For more information on this plan change, please contact Dawne McKay on 06 871 5000.