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Review December 2018 Lincoln Planning Review December 2018. Volume 9. Issue 1-2 Waimakariri Way: Community Engagement in Kaiapoi Town Centre Plan Tourism-led Settlement Regeneration: Reaching Timaru’s Potential Planning for Regeneration in the Town of Oamaru Otago Regional Council’s Response to Lake Snow: A Planner’s Evaluation ISSN 1175-0987 Lincoln Planning Review, 9(1-2) (2018) Table of Contents Lincoln Planning Review is the journal of the Lincoln University EDITORIAL ........................................................................................ 1 Planning Association (LPR) and is Hamish Rennie, Editor-in-Chief the online publication produced twice each year and primarily RESEARCH ARTICLES edited by students. Waimakariri Way: Community Engagement in Kaiapoi Town Centre Plan ........................................................................................ 3 The vision is “to be the pre- Mithran GOPINATH and Suzanne VALLANCE eminent source of information on planning issues, research and Tourism-led Settlement Regeneration: Reaching Timaru’s education in and affecting the Potential ............................................................................................ 9 “central upper South Island”. Laura DANCE, Michael MACKAY, Harvey C. PERKINS Planning for Regeneration in the Town of Oamaru ........................ 20 Michael MACKAY, Nick TAYLOR, Harvey C. PERKINS Contact LPR: Michelle Collings Otago Regional Council’s Response to Lake Snow: A Planner’s Email: Evaluation ....................................................................................... 33 [email protected] Stephanie K. DWYER and Ronlyn DUNCAN Please put ‘LPR’ in the subject line. FIELD NOTES AND CASE STUDIES Lincoln UniversityTransport Survey 2018 – Results and Follow-up......................................................................................... 42 This information may be copied John GOULD or reproduced electronically and distributed to others without Annual census of wetland birds on Te Waihora / Lake Ellesmere .. 44 restriction, authors are cited in Denise FORD accordance with standard academic practice. Under no Book Review - Conservation and Prosperity in New Federal Nepal: circumstances may a charge be Opportunities and Challenges ......................................................... 46 made for this information Megan APSE without the express permission of LUPA, Lincoln University, New Book Review - Agri-Environmental Governance as an Assemblage: Zealand Multiplicity, Power and Transformation ......................................... 48 Matthew HENRY REPORTS The New Zealand Geographical Society / Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2018 ........................................................ 50 Sarah EDWARDS Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools Conference 2018 ............................... 52 Hamish RENNIE Department of Environment Management Staff Profiles ................................................................. 53 Lawrence McCallum Hirini Matunga Lincoln Students ................................................................................................................................ 55 Lawrence McCALLUM Where are they now? ........................................................................................................................ 56 Sam Cooper Pippa Huddleston Josivini Kaloumaira Looking for ways to broaden your knowledge? ................................................................................ 58 Hannah KANE Planning - One step closer to becoming a walk in the park .............................................................. 59 Max LICHTENSTEIN Awards .............................................................................................................................................. 61 Lincoln University Planning Publications: 2018 ................................................................................ 63 Hamish G. RENNIE Front cover photo by Assoc Prof Hamish Rennie, 2018 Lincoln Planning Review, 9(1-2) (2018) 1-2 EDITORIAL Special Issue on Building Better Towns and Communities Welcome to the 9th Volume of the Lincoln Planning Review! Almost a decade ago the then National Government launched a major change in Government research funding. After a major public consultation process there was a significant shift from a competitive tender system of awarding research contracts to one that required the various research providers to collaborate to meet a set of 11 National Science Challenges. This meant, as one CEO stated at the 2015 launch of a challenge team, that “we may not have all the best individual researchers, but we are confident we have the best teams”. This year planners are starting to see the fruits of that research. The Australian and New Zealand Planning Schools (ANZAPS) Conference, reported in this issue, was supported by National Science Challenge 11 – Better Homes, Towns and Cities. It was opened by Andrew Crisp, the new CEO of the recently established Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, who provided a much appreciated presence for the entire first day of urban planning research presentations. His key message was that the Ministry is not just building houses but is about building and strengthening communities. This is music to the ears of planners and an attitude that LPR strongly supports. In recognition, this issue of LPR is our first Special Issue with a theme dedicated to rural towns (Oamaru, Timaru and Kaiapoi) and community development. It features three articles by members of Editorial Board the Challenge 11 team and students the challenge supports. Continuing our close connection with environmental management, Editor-in-Chief there is also a research article by MPlan alumni Stephanie Dwyer Hamish Rennie and former Lincoln staff member Dr Ronlyn Duncan on biosecurity and ‘lake snow’. This should be compulsory reading for those Production Editor heading to the southern lakes this summer! Max Lichtenstein In an enhancement of our previous practice, not only have the four research articles been subject to our usual double blind peer Convening Editors review, but the number of reviewers has been increased to include Hannah Kane at least one practising planner among the three reviewers of each Melissa McMullan article. We have decided to continue with this model in future and wish to thank all of our reviewers and copy editors for their work Editorial Team on this issue. Two of the three research articles are co-authored by Dr Mike Hannah Staines Mackay who has recently been appointed inaugural Director of Helen Matunga Lincoln University’s new Centre of Excellence: Sustainable Tourism Sarah Edwards for Regions, Landscapes and Communities, reflecting the Michelle Collings importance of tourism to the planning and development of our rural towns. The third article, continues Dr Su Vallance’s strong OJS Consultants support for LPR and urban resilience as she co-authors with final Yanan Zhao, year MPlan student Mithran Ramesh-Gopinath an initial report on Lincoln University Library, their work on the post-quake outcomes for Kaiapoi. Dr Vallance Teaching and Learning takes over the role of Director of the MPlan in January 2019. Services This issue includes two field notes with interesting data and book reviews of recent publications whose authors include Lincoln Lincoln Planning Review 1 Volume 9, Issue 1-2, December 2018 staff or alumni. In furthering our mission of bridging the gap between academia and practice, we continue to provide a selection of profiles of our staff and some recent alumni, information on awards, new partnerships and programmes, conference reports and lists of planning relevant research outputs by our staff and students. This is also the first issue where we have used the Open Journal Software throughout and this has made the process run much more smoothly and enabled the workload to be more easily spread between the members of our excellent editorial and OJS support team. All will be continuing with us in 2019, enabling us to return to two separate issues of LPR each year. Also a first, we include a reflective poem about the third year professional practice students, penned by contract lecturer Laurie McCallum, read to an appreciative audience of students and others at the end of the semester. Enjoy! Hamish Rennie Editor-in-Chief Lincoln Planning Review 2 Volume 9, Issue 1-2, December 2018 Lincoln Planning Review, 9(1-2) (2018) 3-8 Waimakariri Way: Community Engagement in Kaiapoi Town Centre Plan Mithran GOPINATH1 Suzanne VALLANCE2 1Master of Planning student, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand 2Department of Environmental Management, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand ABSTRACT Waimakariri District Council’s Kaiapoi Town Centre Plan (KTCP) is part of a broader recovery - and now regeneration - process for Kaiapoi following the 2010 earthquakes. The Council employed a number of innovative and interactive tools and engagement strategies in order to facilitate public participation in the process. Importantly, these tools and strategies reflect a ‘community-based’ logic that, combined, enact a distinctive methodology often referred to as the ‘Waimakariri Way’. Keywords: community engagement, community development, disaster recovery, regeneration BACKGROUND these zones, the cost of remediation and rebuild was considered too costly, thus, in The 2010 earthquake resulted in extensive Kaiapoi 1,048 houses (almost 90 hectares of damage to Kaiapoi, Pines Beach and
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