Draft Area Plan Hibiscus and Bays October / November 2012 Draft for public engagement: 23 October to 23 November 2012 1 DRAFT HIBISCUS AND BAYS AREA PLAN Table of contents Hibiscus and Bays vision 3 What are Area Plans? 4 The relationship between Area Plans and other plans 5 The role and purpose of the Area Plan 6 Community Engagement in the Draft Hibiscus and Bays Area Plan 7 Setting the strategic context: Auckland-wide 8 What does the Auckland Plan mean for the Hibiscus and Bays Area Plan? 9 Setting the local context: Hibiscus and Bays Local Board area 10 Future challenges and opportunities for Hibiscus and Bays Local area 11 Hibiscus and Bays outcomes and actions 13 Hibiscus and Bays key moves 14 Area Plan Framework Map 2042 16 Hibiscus and Bays Town Centres, Local Centres and Neighbourhood Centres 26 Coastal Villages 32 Natural, Heritage and Character Outcomes 34 Economic and Community Development Outcomes 42 Transport and Network Infrastructure Outcomes 50 Implementation and prioritisation plan 58 Key Priorities 59 10 year prioritisation schedule 62 Glossary 68 Disclaimer: Auckland Council is not liable for anyone or any entity acting in reliance of this area plan or for any error, defi ciency or omission in it. Front cover image: Long Bay Regional Park looking south towards urban Auckland. Inside cover: Ōrewa Town Centre from Red Beach. 2 Hibiscus and Bays vision The Draft Hibiscus and Bays Area Plan provides a vision for how the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board area could change over the next 30 years. It outlines the steps to “Hibiscus and Bays - values achieve this vision and how the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board area will contribute to Auckland becoming the our beaches and coastal world’s most liveable city. This Draft Area Plan will incorporate the aspirations and context, landscapes, way of goals of the community, key stakeholders and Mana Whenua, while addressing the growth projections set out life and people”. in the Auckland Plan. Many of the issues, aspirations, Vision from Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Plan, Page 2. and opportunities for the Hibiscus and Bays area are not new. There are six key transformational shifts for the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board area: How to be involved • Establish the ‘North-West Wildlink’ as a continuous greenbelt, complemented by This is a draft plan. Your input is important to us and we improved quality of the adjoining estuarine and want to hear your views and comments. marine environment This is your opportunity to contribute to the future • Grow the green economy and ecotourism direction of the Hibiscus and Bays area by letting us potential of Hibiscus and Bays by leveraging off know what you like, dislike and think we may have the area’s natural assets forgotten. All feedback will be considered when developing the fi nal Hibiscus and Bays Area Plan. • Build a continuous coastal pathway to connect Hibiscus and Bays’ communities We invite you to have your say. You can give us feedback by post, email, or on our website. • Focus growth in centres, and in areas with high amenity and good access to public transport By post: • Improve transport connections throughout Freepost Authority 241331 the area by extending the Northern Busway, Hibiscus and Bays Area Plan implementing Penlink and associated works, and by promoting potential, new water-based Auckland Council transport. Private Bag 92300 • Develop employment land in and around Victoria Street West Silverdale to increase employment Auckland 1142 opportunities for local people. By email: [email protected] The objective of the Draft Hibiscus and Bays Area Plan is to provide greater choices of where and how people will By website: www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/areaplans live, work and play in the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board area. Future development must respond to the needs of the diverse ethnic and youthful community in the area, To see or download the Draft Hibiscus and Bays Area including providing access to employment opportunities Plan and feedback form visit the Council’s website at and a wider range of housing options. www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/areaplans The delivery of area plan outcomes in a 30-year Hard copies will also be available from local timeframe will require a collaborative approach between libraries, the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board offi ce, the community, Mana Whenua and key delivery and on request by phoning (09) 301 0101 or partners including Auckland Council, council controlled emailing [email protected] organisations (CCOs), central government agencies and We will also be active in the Hibiscus and Bays Local private land owners. Board area from 23 October to 23 November 2012. Investment in physical and social infrastructure including You will fi nd information about the events on our transport, open space, community facilities, and website and displayed in local libraries. schools, is needed to meet the growth in business and All feedback must be received by 5.00pm on Friday 23 population. But such investment must be balanced with November 2012. protecting the highly valued and sensitive features of the area. Initiatives in this Draft Hibiscus and Bays Area Plan recognise and build on the area’s cultural and historical values, and its highly valued landscapes. 3 DRAFT HIBISCUS AND BAYS AREA PLAN What are Area Plans? An area plan is a key tool in Auckland Council’s Auckland Council will develop 21 area plans, each strategic planning framework (see Figures 1 and 2 focused at the local board level. Once complete, each below). The purpose of an area plan is to show how the plan will ‘seamlessly integrate’ with the other area plans Auckland Plan (its outcomes, proposed changes and and will form a single picture of Auckland. strategic directions) will be put in place at the local The outcomes and aspirations set out in an area plan level. An area plan uses tools such as the Unitary Plan, include those that Council and its various departments local board plans, the Long Term Plan and emerging may deliver and those that will be undertaken by Council Council strategies to help deliver the Auckland plan’s Controlled Organisations (CCOs). They also include objectives. An area plan prioritises those future activities outcomes and aspirations that might be achieved and projects for an area that are required to achieve by infl uencing the activities of, and/or forming close Auckland’s Vision of creating “the world’s most liveable partnerships with, other parties such as government city”. agencies, private landowners and community Each area plan shows, in maps and words, the 30-year organisations. Developing an area plan should resolve vision for an area. Key parts of an area plan include differences between local aspirations and Auckland Plan the proposed land-uses (shown in the area plan objectives. Then the plan can focus on other processes, framework map page 16), and the important economic, such as the need for more detailed planning in the future environmental, social and cultural outcomes and and the need for key infrastructure (including social initiatives (as shown in three theme maps). The result facilities) to support these aims. is an integrated vision of how an area could look and function in the future. Figure 1: Auckland Council’s Strategic Planning Framework Source: The Auckland Plan 2012 4 The relationship between area plans and other plans Local Board Plans The Unitary Plan Local board plans provide community-level vision, and Council is developing Auckland’s fi rst Unitary Plan to priorities and projects for each local board. Each of the replace the district and regional plans and policies of 21 local boards in Auckland has a local board plan and the former city, district and regional councils. Prepared an annual agreement with the governing body. These under the Resource Management Act (1991), the Unitary agreements set out how much funding is available for Plan is Council’s main land-use planning document. Its local board projects in each area. objectives, policies and rules will help implement the Auckland Plan. The Unitary Plan will also have regulatory The Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Plan has played a key provisions that achieve the area plan outcomes. role in helping to identify area plan priorities, projects It will not be possible for all area plans to be completed and community aspirations. This plan sets out the vision across Auckland before the Unitary Plan is fi rst publicly and priorities for the Local Board area. The Local Board notifi ed. However, area plan outputs and analysis will be and the community have identifi ed projects and these introduced into the draft Unitary Plan over time when are included in this area plan. Local board plans must be and as each area plan is completed. The area plans will reviewed every three years. inform the Unitary Plan by outlining a range of land uses under the broad categories of living, business, mixed use, rural, open space and special purpose. The three YOUR VOICE area plan theme maps will identify local values and/or FOR YOUR features. The policies and rules used in the Unitary Plan COMMUNITY will reinforce these. The Unitary Plan is one tool to help implement the area plan. Figure 2: Three levels of planning Rural Hauraki Gulf production Browns Region-wide planning Bay Country Albany living ? Riverhead Sunnynook (The Auckland Plan) Milford Glenfield Public Takapuna open space ? ? Northcote Westgate / Massey North Highbury City Centre Waitematā ntry & Fringe Te Atatu Harbour ng Peninsula Newmarket Pt Chevalier Henderson Glen Bush St Lukes Remuera Innes living Mt Albert Avondale Three Ellerslie Howick Panmure Kings Glen New Lynn Highland Eden Royal Sylvia Park Cover of Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Plan.