Auckland’s post-flood growth plan
Auckland Council’s Planning, Environment and Parks Committee says it has a new strategy for developing its city over the next three decades as it is...
Category : Planning
Urban places – dare to be bold
Russell Halliday, programme delivery director and market leader – Urban Places at Stantec, looks at urban places as about place and, more importantly, about the...
Keeping ‘placemaking’ in focus through reform
By Garry Dyet, chief executive at Waipa District Council and Robert Brodnax, senior principal advisory at Beca. Placemaking is, ‘The process of strengthening the connection...
The NPSUD and urban intensification in Auckland
Local Government magazine talks with John Duguid, the general manager for Plans and Places at Auckland Council, about the pressures of the NPSUD that came...
Far North tuku to community protest
The Far North District Council has dumped Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) from its Proposed District Plan when it is notified. The council’s Strategy and Policy...
Spatial planning – be ready by starting now
By Robert Brodnax, Beca principal advisory; Annika Lane, Beca senior associate – spatial and policy planning; and Amelia Linzey, Beca Group director advisory and chief...
National Planning Standards – a year on, what have we learnt?
It has now been one year since the National Planning Standards (‘planning standards’) prepared by the Ministry for the Environment came into effect. Hamish Wesney...
Queenstown Town Centre Masterplan
Setting the direction for a district – Planning multiple integrated projects in a fast-growing area is never going to be easy. Here’s Queenstown’s answer to...