The Company has built a strong track record in urban planning and analysis, at the strategic and operational levels, with a particular focus on strategic land use planning, urban design, district planning and integration of transport (and other infrastructure) with land use development.

  • In all of the following project areas, the Company is often called upon to bridge the strategic and operational levels, helping to identify outcomes for urban areas or activities and then to develop implementation frameworks for these objectives that are robust and defendable.

    This commonly involves community consultation, strategic analysis, vision and option development, option testing and developing implementation and actions plans.

    Peer review services, due diligence, expert evidence before the Environment Court, and acting as decision makers are also common actions associated with these processes.

    Specific capabilites include:

  • RMA Plan Making RMA Plan Making

    The HYC team has decades of collective experience in the plan making process under the RMA. We have a detailed knowledge of the steps required to develop defendable plan provisions, with specific skills in developing policy responses to innovative initiatives not traditionally addressed within district plans.
    We can also help you develop the business case for funding your plan making activity so as to ensure you have sufficient resources to address this increasingly complex and challenging task.

    Projects include:

    • Advice to a number of councils on plan review approaches
    • Affordable Housing Plan Change – Queenstown Lakes District Plan
    • On-site Stormwater Management Plan Change – North Shore District Plan
    • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Plan Change – Auckland City Isthmus Plan.

  • Designations Designations

    The need for certainty by a Requiring Authority over the scope of the activity to be authorised by the designation, and the terms of that designation by the consenting authority is seeing the designations process become much more complex. Our team is experienced in both the preparation of Notices of Requirement for designations and processing of Notices for councils. Capabilities include: applications for requiring authority status; review of existing designations within district plans (i.e. council’s own designations); advising whether the designation process is the most appropriate; submissions to Notices, and evidence for council hearings and the Environment Court.

    Projects include:

    • Auckland City Road Network Notice of Requirement Preparation
    • Kawakawa Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant Notice of Requirement Preparation
    • Victoria Park Tunnel (SH1) Notice of Requirement Assessment
    • Manukau Water’s application for Requiring Authority status
    • Section 149 (G) report for the former Auckland Council on the Waterview connection.

  • Resource Consents Resource Consents

    Our team has worked with a number of councils to understand and improve their resource consent assessment and decision making processes. We understand your risks, your customer service obligations and the local government environment. We can help you improve your ability to comply with statutory timeframes, while also improving the quality of the decisions that are being made.
    We can also prepare consent applications for large complex and often contentious projects (i.e. Eden Park Redevelopment); and make planning submissions on notified consents on your behalf.

    Projects include:

    • Measuring the time and costs associated with resource consent, engineering approval and building consent processes
    • Governance review and assessing the quality of decision-making undertaken throughout the resource consent process
    • Identifying organisational issues associated with input from various council departments and organisations into the resource consent process.

  • Urban Planning Urban Planning

    HYC has a wide range of skills in the area of urban planning, including urban design-based assessments, research on urban issues, growth management strategies, and linkages with LGA policy development. The links between infrastructure (transport, open space, social) investments and land use responses is an area that we are often called upon to consider.
    HYC is a signatory to the Urban Design Protocol, and David Mead (Director) is on the Urban Design Panel for Auckland City and is a key member of the Urban Design Forum (NZ).

    Projects include:

    • Independent Hearing Commissioner for various plan changes, including the LG(A)AA changes
    • Assisted with the preparation of the Albany Centre Plan Change and Long Bay Structure Plan for North Shore City
    • New Lynn Redevelopment (Plan Change 18) for Waitakere City and Frankton Flats and Wanaka in Queenstown Lakes District
    • Social Infrastructure Framework for Waitakere City
    • Numerous land use and transport integration studies for road, bus, rail, pedestrian and cycle focused transport projects.

  • Strategic Analysis Strategic Analysis

    The analysis of data on the socio-economic environment, and current policy frameworks to inform larger scale urban projects is often a task we are asked to undertake. This analysis includes demographic and employment projections, forecasting land use demands, analysis of the economics of development and social and physical infrastructure needs.

    Projects include:

    • Housing Affordability in Queenstown Lakes District
    • Business Land Needs Analysis for Queenstown Lakes District
    • Urban redevelopment options for New Lynn, Wairau Valley and other areas of change
    • Flat Bush Town Centre Master plan strategic analysis.

 

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