Framework Plan Framework 2016 November Northcote

Northcote Framework Plan Contents

Contents...... 3 Section Three: Key moves...... 50 Summary of key moves...... 52 Mihi...... 4 Key move one: Town centre – creating a vibrant heart...... 56 Foreword...... 7 Summary...... 57 Context...... 60 Executive summary...... 8 Key move two: Lake Road – creating a great urban street...... 80 Momentum is now on Northcote’s side...... 8 Summary...... 81 Northcote 2030 ...... 10 Context...... 81

Section one: Introduction...... 12 Key move three: A blue-green way – a network of public open space...... 86 Panuku: Who we are and our approach...... 14 Summary...... 87 Our work in unlock locations...... 15 Context...... 87 Our commitment to Māori responsiveness...... 15 Key Initiatives and projects...... 89 About this framework plan...... 16 The Unlock Northcote project area...... 18 Key move four: Housing – increasing density, Acknowledging Northcote’s past ...... 25 choice and tenure mix...... 92 Significance to Māori...... 27 Summary...... 93 Housing boom...... 29 Context...... 93 Previous urban planning...... 30 Key Initiatives and projects...... 94 Northcote strengths and challenges...... 32 Why now?...... 34 Section four: Delivery ...... 98 Key partnerships...... 36 Six key strategies...... 100 Te Aranga Māori Design...... 38 Timing...... 106 Financial considerations...... 108 Section Two: Our ambition...... 40 Monitoring and review...... 110 Our vision...... 42 Glossary...... 113 Our Goals...... 46

2 3 Mihi

E koutou te tau manene mai To those of you who arrive here as strangers ki ngā tāhuna o Kaipātiki, on the shorelines of Kaipātiki, kia tōtika te takahi a tō wae i runga i aku mahara tread carefully, you are walking on my memories o ngā tau kua hori. of yesteryear. E toko ake ana koe i ngā kōpua You are entering by way of the twin pools o Matakamokamo rāua ko Matakerepō, of Matakamokamo and Matakerepō, e whai haere ana i ngā tapuwae o Mataaho, following in the footsteps of Mataaho nāna i hū ai te whenua ka puta who caused the land to erupt ko te Rangitoto and gave rise to Rangitoto, e tū heteri mai rā i te ākau ki te Raki Paewhenua. guardian of the North Shore. Kia tūpato e hīkoi ana koe Be cautious where you tread, you walk upon mā te urunga tapu o Tainui sacred ground - landing of Tainui waka i meinga nei ko Ngā Huru-a-Taiki, at Ngā Huru-a-Taiki kei konā e urupā ana and the resting place ngā manatunga o nehe a Te Kawerau a Maki. for the bygone treasures of Te Kawerau a Maki. Whakatau poto tō haere hei tohu rangatira. Pause there for a moment in respect. Toko ake rā tō haere mā Te Awataha Continue your travels via Te Awataha ki te Puna-wai-a-Tene, to the wellspring of Tene, i konā kapua ō ringa there cup your hands kia inu ā-wairua koe i ngā wai whakanoa imbue its waters and cleanse your spirit e puta ai tō haere ki te whei ao, on this sacred journey, allowing you back ki te ao mārama. into the world of light. Tērā koe te tū nei You may find yourself where ki te Tōtara-hā-tahi i Te Ōnewa; the solitary tōtara at Te Ōnewa once stood; tirohia te whenua taurikura i purea e te hā atua, a prosperous land breathed upon by gods, kua tāreia e te ringa tangata. shaped by the hands of man. Titiro atu koutou te pahure pēnei mai ka mīharo ai. Gaze upon it in wonder you who pass this way. Eke panuku, eke tangaroa. As time passes and the hewer’s axe falls. Haere mai te toki a haumi e, hui e, tāiki e! All things are connected!

4 5 Foreword

With its central location and easy The food will be recognised as some With Hobsonville Land Company delivering connections to Auckland’s CBD, Takapuna of the best in Auckland, it will be easy homes on Housing NZ land, and the and other North Shore beaches, the to get around and there’ll be more usable city’s urban development agency Panuku potential of Northcote is unquestioned. open spaces. Development Auckland redeveloping the town centre and improving local amenities Northcote residents have long Residents will have a strong sense to increase safety – I can reassure you that held a desire to see their town centre of community, ownership and pride Northcote is in capable hands. revitalised. It’s important that any in the area. development strengthens the community, Lastly, I encourage Northcote residents One of the projects outlined in this respects Māori history, and reinforces the to embrace the redevelopment of their Framework Plan that excites me is the local character. suburb. It will take around 10 years to Blue-Green Way. This network of open be completed and at times there will Residents want more of what people love spaces will follow the natural paths of the be disruption, but this is a fantastic about Northcote. old Awataha stream. opportunity to ensure Northcote is ready We want tomorrow’s Northcote to be a The Blue-Green way will run through the for what tomorrow brings. place where more and more people want town centre and neighbourhood and will be to move to, attracted by the mix of co-designed with the community so that it lifestyles and easy connections to the becomes something that is treasured and Ngā mihi mahana wider Auckland community. cared for by everyone. Danielle Grant The plans outlined in this document will I am also pleased to see the Government Chair Kaipātiki Local Board ensure a new town centre that will be safe, and Auckland Council working together in clean and well-designed, providing an even Northcote. greater variety of shops. The new homes will be warm and dry and there will be a range of different housing types.

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Executive summary

Momentum is now on Northcote’s side.

The Northcote Town Centre Plan of 2010 set The Government, through its agent the The approach to realising this vision is to • Lake Road upgraded within the project out a vision for the town centre as “the heart Hobsonville Land Company (HLC), is building harness the multiplier effect of four keys to enhance amenity, incorporating a new The Unlock Northcote of our growing community, a lively welcoming 1200 new homes in the area, meaning it is a moves, capable of catalysing, accelerating town centre gateway treatment, and the project area, centred on place that celebrates culture, where business perfect time to better connect the new town and amplifying change. These key moves Northcote Safe Cycle Route project from the town centre and taking thrives and everyone’s needs are met.” centre with local housing. Alongside planned are where Panuku will channel particular Smales Farm to Northcote ferry terminal/ public transport improvements, we can Careful forethought, along with new planning effort to ensure that momentum and SkyPath. in the adjoining residential create new networks to, and through, the change is thoughtfully achieved over a rules, better market conditions and wider • A blue-green way as a connected network town centre for walkers and cyclists. five to fifteen year period. neighbourhoods bounded by opportunities with partners mean now is of high amenity green open spaces that Ocean View Road to the north, the time to realise residents’ and business Our partnership with mana whenua is integral In pursuing the key moves it is envisaged incorporate stormwater upgrades to Raleigh Road and Exmouth operators long-held desire for a revitalised to this Framework Plan for Northcote. It will that by 2030 Unlock Northcote will boast address potential flooding risks in the town centre, a new level of public amenity enable opportunities to help restore cultural a resident population of some 7700 town centre and wider Northcote area. Road to the south, College Road and social infrastructure and an improved identity, improve kaitiakitanga, promote residents (from a current population of 3000 • HLC, on behalf of Housing New Zealand to the east and Ocean View town centre and housing offer. manaakitanga and facilitate commercial and residents). At least $1.1 billion of investment Corporation (HNZC), will facilitate $750 Treaty settlement opportunities. will have been leveraged in delivering the Road to the west, is on the cusp Tomorrow’s Northcote will be more visible million of investment in delivering 1200 following: of dramatic and positive change. and easy to get around. A place more This Framework Plan is a non-statutory new houses (400 of which will be social people want to move to - attracted by the guiding document that, building on the High • A redeveloped town centre including housing) for the existing and future mix of lifestyle, housing choice, community Level Project Plan (HLPP) adopted in March a new supermarket, apartment community. identity and great North Shore location 2016; sets out to achieve the vision to 2030 development, a potential multi-purpose • Additionally, Panuku will optimise its being within easy reach of Auckland city in which Northcote becomes “a growing community centre (subject to feasibility Housing for Older People sites and the centre. Northcote is one of 20 Auckland community with a lively and welcoming heart and ongoing community consultation), New Zealand Defence Force housing will locations identified for renewal by Panuku that celebrates culture, where businesses a new town square, improved Cadness be handed back to the Marutūāhu Iwi Development Auckland (Panuku). As thrive and everyone’s needs are met”. and Greenslade reserves and general Collective in 2017. Auckland Council’s urban regeneration street upgrades. agency, Panuku will act as facilitator to bring the redevelopment to fruition.

8 9 SOCIAL PRIVATE OWNED OWNED TREE URBAN STREET LINED % % NORTHCOTE2030 20 80 neighbourhood street (Lake Road)

A greater mix of housing A mixed housing ownership of types and opportunities approximately 20% social owned for many residents and 80% private

PROTECTED CYCLEWAY

NEW New upgrade to Greenslade TOWN 1 kilometre of protected, Reserve as a 'village' green, CENTRE family friendly cycleway full sized sports field/storm + water detention 7700 residents up from (3000) New supermarket led mixed- use town centre development $1.1 billion of investment leveraged with $550m related

sq.m A new In the order of multi-purpose 1000 NEW A new 1000 sq.m town centre and series of open spaces HOMES COMMUNITY 2000 BUILDING

10 11 Wāhanga tuatahi: Hei whakatuwhera Section one: Introduction

This section provides a high-level introduction to the Unlock Northcote project. It describes Panuku’s role and Tahi 01 approach as Auckland’s regeneration agency, explains what a framework plan is and why one has been developed for Northcote, describes the area covered by the project and acknowledges mana whenua associations with the area.

13 Panuku: who we are and our approach

Panuku is an abbreviated form of the whakataukī (proverb), Our work in Our commitment to Established in September "Eke panuku, eke Tangaroa!" unlock locations Māori responsiveness 2015 Panuku Development This whakataukī acknowledges unseen Northcote has been identified as an unlock 1. Leading the development of well- Our commitment to Māori is detailed in our Auckland is a Council-controlled energies from the realms of land and location, which means working with partners designed, diverse, resilient, exciting places Māori Responsiveness Action Plan. Panuku is sea which are often called upon through organisation that works with and Council assets to unlock the area’s where people want to work, learn and play. committed to: Māori karakia (invocations) to help invigorate, potential for others. We deliver this through: stakeholders, partners and inspire and manifest success, excellence and • enabling Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty communities to transform progress within groups. In this type of project, Panuku acts as – focusing on quality place-led design of Waitangi outcomes the facilitator, using our relationships to parts of our city through urban Our organisation, like a waka (canoe), not – place-led engagement • enabling Māori outcomes identify possibilities, break down barriers only requires strength to move forward, but redevelopment, regeneration and influence others to create development – integrating sustainability • fulfilling Auckland Council’s statutory skill to navigate, balance to ride smoothly and intensification on behalf opportunities. It is important to us that any obligations to Māori and teamwork to propel. – committing to accessible design development and infrastructure investment of Auckland Council. Our • valuing te ao Māori. strengthens the community, respects Māori – contributing to housing affordability vision is “Shaping Spaces for This Framework Plan acknowledges the need history, and reinforces the local character. – working with others to support local Aucklanders to love”. We aim to support kaitiakitanga (guardianship) and Panuku in these unlock locations seeks economic development environmental, cultural, social and economic to do this in a sustainable to balance commercial and public good 2. Working with others to create residential wellbeing and the application of Te Aranga outcomes based on our Corporate manner, one that finds the right and commercial spaces and high-quality Māori design in development and public Responsibility Framework that commits balance between economic, public places. We deliver this through: realm projects. These commitments are us to: further expressed in the Unlock Northcote environmental, social and – facilitating partnerships with the Crown, mana whenua charter. cultural aspects and values. mana whenua and the private sector – taking a collaborative partnership approach to relationships with mana whenua community, mataawaka and urban Māori community of Tāmaki Makaurau – engaging regularly with key stakeholders from across the public, private and community sectors – working in partnership with the Auckland Council family.

14 15 ContextCurrent - Close to everything, easy connections

Project area Milford in wider context

Wairau Local centre Valley

Regional centres Glenfi eld Smales Farm Interchange Areas of significance to mana whenua Lake Pupuke About this Framework Plan

The purpose of the Unlock Northcote The Framework Plan is similar to a Study Akoranga Framework Plan is to expand on Northcote’s masterplan with a strong spatial element area Interchange Hauraki Gulf The purpose of the Unlock renewal opportunities, with an emphasis on but is less prescriptive about specific land- Takapuna Northcote Framework Plan is to what will be done and how it will be delivered. use and design responses. Additionally, framework plans are holistic in their scope, expand on Northcote’s renewal This Framework Plan is the next key step covering economic development, issues in delivering the outcomes of the adopted opportunities, with an emphasis important to mana whenua, sustainability, Te Kōpua o Unlock Northcote High Level Project Plan social and environmental outcomes. It is a on what will be done and how (HLPP). It shapes the scope of the renewal Matakamokamo non-statutory, place-based plan that sets the it will be delivered. project and develops the HLPP concepts direction for more detailed implementation into robust proposals, which are outlined as Onepoto planning to occur during 2017. our four key moves. Importantly it casts a Birkenhead Domain wider look at the potential of the area as well The Unlock Northcote Framework Plan is as detailing the town centre revitalisation a living document, which will continue to opportunity drawing on the many years of evolve in response to new opportunities planning and engagement in Northcote. to reach the area’s potential. It needs to be flexible, yet maintain a robust strategic direction. Its timeframe is to 2030. Maungauika Te Onewa Takarunga Proposed second harbour crossing Waitemata Harbour

Diagram showing the study area Ferry crossing in relationship to other local and regional centres, areas of significance to mana whenua, and main transport connections.

16 City centre 17 The Unlock Northcote project area

The Unlock Northcote project area is (mainly reserves), but most of this land is centred on the town centre, but also takes owned by Housing New Zealand Corporation The Unlock Northcote in the adjoining residential neighbourhoods (HNZC) and comprises 300 state social project area is centred on the bounded by Ocean View Road to the north, housing properties. Raleigh Road and Exmouth Road to the town centre, but also takes The wider area includes important Māori south, College Road to the east Ocean aspects of the greater Auckland story. in the adjoining residential View Road to the west. The project area is The god Mataoho’s volcanic footsteps bisected by Lake Road, an important spine neighbourhoods bounded left a legacy in the form of Te Kōpua o road that connects the unlock area into the by Ocean View Road to the Matakamokamo (Tuff Crater) and Te Kōpua wider North Shore road network but to a o Matakerepō (Onepoto Domain Reserve north, Raleigh Road and degree separates its communities. crater) – both significant geographical Exmouth Road to the south, The town centre sits in a natural basin, features of today’s North Shore. reinforcing the sense of it being hidden, College Road to the east and The project area also includes: Ocean View Road to the west. whilst the outer areas of the Unlock Northcote project area boundary e.g. • three schools – Onepoto Primary School, College Road and Ocean View Road sit on Northcote Intermediate School and Hato the ridge lines with sweeping harbour views. Pētera College; Auckland Council owns almost five hectares • two Housing for Older People villages, (ha) of land containing Northcote town owned by the council; centre, although about 40 per cent of • a pocket of New Zealand Defence Force the land area is subject to perpetually land, which will be handed back to the renewable leases. Marutūāhu Iwi Collective in 2017; Approximately 83ha to the immediate north • private housing stock primarily west and west of the town centre contains streets and south of Lake Road. and land parcels owned by the council.

18 19 Context6km to the centre of Auckland - 30 min on skypath

Relative distance of Northcote to the city centre just 6km away SH 1 Project area in wider context SH 18

Milford Greenhithe Hauraki Gulf Wairau Valley Schools Northern Motorway (SH1) Bayview Green space Onewa Domain

Glenfi eld Rangitoto Island Island Town centre Whenuapai Takapuna HNZC land Study area NZDF / Iwi land Hobsonville Birkdale SH 18 Housing for Older People Stancich Birkenhead Reserve Westgate Chatswood SH 1 Hato Petera College West Harbour HNZ Devonport AUT Massey SH 16 Harbour Bridge 6km Onepoto Waitemata Harbour Primary School City 1 km 6km Ponsonby centre Mission Bay Herne St Heliers Bay Freemans Bay NZDF Northcote Henderson Point Orakei Ocean View Road Intermediate Chevalier Parnell Lake Road Grey Lynn School Te Atatu South HfOP SH 16 Newmarket HNZ Kingsland HNZ Mount Eden Remuera Town Mount Centre Albert Te Kōpua o College Road Matakamokamo Sandringham Epsom Raleigh Road SH 1 Mana Whenua One Tree Hill Three Kings Ellerslie

20 21 Northcote town centre (existing) Acknowledging Northcote’s past

In planning the Northcote of 2030, it is important to understand the threads of the area’s past, from the Māori history of the Auckland landscape to the suburban boom of the 1960s. Much research has been undertaken, both prior to and as part of the creation of this document, with more to be achieved and uncovered in the years to come, but a brief summary is as follows:

25 Awataha Northcote Town Centre Pupuke Moana

Te Kōpua O Matakamokama

Te Kōpua O Matakerepō

Significance to Māori Kōrero tuku iho, or Kōrero tuku iho (stories of the past), are Their parents’ attempt to return to Te Other points of significance include: embedded in the whenua (land). They Whenua Roa o Kahu (the North Shore) stories of the past, • the northern side of Te Kōpua o endure and connect Māori to place, angered Mataoho again, and as further Matakamokamo (Onepoto Crater) was are embedded in acknowledging their mauri (life force). In punishment, they too were turned to stone part of the Awataha Papakāinga, where in the context of Te Whenua Roa o Kahu, (the at Awataha, (Shoal Bay). Volcanic eruptions the whenua that 1942 Ngāti Paoa tūpuna were disinterred North Shore), places like Northcote and then sank the stones beneath the ground, endure and connect from the urupā. Rāwiri Puhata and his Takapuna are without boundary and remain resulting in two distinctive craters named family were reinterred on Waiheke Island Māori to place, seamless on the landscape. after them, Te Kōpua o Matakamokamo (Onepoto crater) and Te Kōpua o • Lake Road and the important connection acknowledging its According to the region’s kōrero tuku iho, Matakerepō (Tuff Ring). it provides, linking Northcote and Lake mauri (essence). a disagreement between Matakamokamo Pupuke/Takapuna across the motorway. It and his wife Matakerepō led to punishment These craters are still seen today as are also links the town centre to Te Ōnewa Pā, by Mataoho, the deity associated with the rock formations of their twin children where its point was called Tōtara-tahi in earthquakes and volcanic activity. Mataoho Hinerei and Matamiha at Takapuna Beach. 1908. sank their mountain home, leaving Pupuke Their maid, Tukiata, is the rock pinnacle near Moana, (Lake Pupuke), in its wake, along Rangitoto Beacon and she is known as Te with the formation of Rangitoto. Toka a Tukiata. The couple fled to Rangitoto with their maid “Mataoho stepped from these two lagoons, Tukiata, but in their panic left their twin Ngā Tapuwae at Barry’s Point Rd, right children behind. When ordered to rescue the across the isthmus to the lake Te Pūkaki children, Tukiata disobeyed the instruction Tapu o Poutūkeka, east of the airport”, not to look back at Rangitoto, and the twins, residing at Te Ipu a Mataoho – the crater of Hinerei and Matamiha, were turned to stone Maungawhau. at the southern end of Takapuna Beach.

Te Onewa Pa

26 27 Aerial photo from 1959

Housing boom From 1950 to 1956, the Government funded the promotion of residential housing in Northcote, boosted by the opening of Auckland Harbour Bridge in 1959 and the establishment of the Northcote town centre in 1960. It led to a residential housing boom that lasted from 1960 to 2000. Northcote is a public sector planned settlement, created with the simultaneous development of shops, schools and housing. Once the local borough council created the town centre, the area made a fast transition from empty fields to an entire suburb.

Model showing the original design of the Northcote shopping centre

29 Image from the Northcote Town Centre Plan (July 2010) showing the town centre before and after the proposed redevelopment.

Previous urban planning The town centre remains a focal point Both of these documents are still viewed for its increasingly diverse community, but as ‘live’ by Council, and have formed the Recognising the need for there has been a lack of investment over backbone to the High Level Project Plan and action the former North the years in the buildings and immediate Framework Plan. While the previous work Shore City Council undertook surrounds and socio-economic deprivation has not delivered much in the way of physical issues have become evident across parts of intervention, they have been instrumental in urban regeneration studies the community. getting us to this point. working closely with the local Recognising the need for action the former HNZC also conducted a large scale community, and Housing North Shore City Council undertook urban Community Renewal Project, which started New Zealand Corporation. regeneration studies working closely in 2001. The larger aspirations for the project with the local community, and Housing were not realised, but it did lead to the New Zealand Corporation. construction of 44 new units on Tonar Street - now considered to be a successful model These studies were incorporated into two relevant to future proposals key documents, the Eastern Area Planning Framework (2010) and Northcote Town Centre Plan (2010). .

Preferred development framework presented in Northcote Central Project Eastern Area Development Framework Final Report (September 2010).

30 31 Northcote strengths and challenges

With its central location and easy • an almost unrivalled wider natural • the town centre is easy to miss (lacking connections to Auckland’s city centre, landscape amenity including Te Kōpua presence on Lake Road) and hard to love Takapuna and North Shore beaches, the O Matakamokamo,(Onepoto Basin/Tuff being dominated by the car and single potential of Northcote is unquestioned. Crater), Shoal Bay and Onepoto Domain; use, low value retail and poorly integrated land-uses; This prime location lends itself to growth • high accessibility to other regional centres and development opportunities. Northcote and facilities (including Takapuna and • a poor physical relationship between the can not only lift its game as a town centre, Wairau Valley) for employment, shopping, town centre and immediate residential but be more visible to the rest of Auckland recreation, services and entertainment; neighbourhoods particularly across Lake and take its place in a new regional Road and from Cadness Reserve; • the most culturally diverse residential and geography. Northcote should be known as a business communities on the North Shore, • low quality local public open space/ suburb easily accessible to the city centre – with strong Chinese, Korean, Māori, and public realm amenity with stormwater just 6km away. Pacific presences; and management requiring attention and Other key strengths for Northcote include: poor connections to the wider natural • a town centre of sufficient scale to cater landscape; and • Strong community leadership, a highly for many of the communities’ needs. active community network and a general • community facilities which are Northcote does however face some sense of pride in place amongst the disaggregated, concealed (to the rear of challenges that need to be overcome if community; the town centre) and not necessarily fit its full potential it to be realised including: for purpose in the context of the expected • a good range of educational facilities, • contrasting and sometimes polarised population growth. from early childcare centres to the AUT communities in terms of levels of home campus. Specifically the three schools ownership, income and backgrounds with – Onepoto Primary School, Northcote pockets of concentrated socio-economic Intermediate School and Hato Pētera deprivation; College – offer the opportunity to mobilise the social capital of the area's children and whānau as well as potential land consolidation in pursuit of the overall vision;

32 33 Development potential enabled by the Auckland Unitary Plan

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Why now?

With the High Level Project Plan complete, • Stormwater upgrades to Greenslade Panuku has the council mandate to go ahead Reserve to address flooding in the town with Northcote’s Unlock programme. Other centre and wider Northcote area; Albany opportunities, dovetailing with Panuku’s • Northcote identified as a location for programme and building the momentum higher-density housing in the new for change include:. Auckland Unitary Plan providing major • Hobsonville Land Company (HLC) being potential to increase the quality of housing appointed to develop Housing New through zoning; and Zealand Corporation (HNZC) land – a • New Zealand Defence Force housing $750 million investment that will result being handed back to the Marutūāhu Iwi in 1200 new houses and new amenities Collective in 2017. including a blue-green way; • Opportunity to develop a new supermarket and mixed-use residential led scheme in the town centre; • Lake Road upgrades for the Northcote Glenfield Safe Cycle Route project, from Smales Takapuna Farm to Northcote ferry terminal/ SkyPath;

Hobsonville Northcote

Devonport

34 Key partnerships Realising the Unlock Northcote plan will Mana whenua Ministry of Education require collaboration in a timely and effective way with mana whenua, government A charter has been established to help Onepoto Primary School and Northcote agencies, local communities and our own facilitate ongoing engagement with mana Intermediate School are adjacent to the council family. whenua and Te Aranga Design Principles are town centre and the HNZC land holdings being applied to the Northcote project’s four The Ministry of Education (MoE) is a key Panuku has established the following key moves. key partnerships. stakeholder for Panuku on two accounts: Engagement with mana whenua has focused • in funding growth and improvements to on the issues, vision and opportunities for the two schools; Hobsonville Land Company the area, including possible participation (HLC) in commercial development opportunities. • as a landowner, neighbour and potential In 2016 HLC was appointed as HNZC’s Overall, the goal is to restore cultural visibility, commercial partner. improve kaitiakitanga (guardianship) from the delivery agent for redeveloping the existing Panuku and HLC will continue to work with whole community, promote manaakitanga 300 state houses. This $750 million senior (MoE) managers to explore the (hospitality and warmth) and enable investment will see 1200 new ‘exemplar’ potential integration and expansion of the participation in commercial activities. homes built; about 400 for social housing, schools, with possible land sales enabling with 600 to 800 sold on the open market Under the charter, the application of capital project funding for improvements. (400 in the affordable category). mana whenua values and principles will Panuku has been working closely with be a collaborative process with Panuku. HLC to ensure integration with development It will involve balancing Panuku’s varying of the Northcote area as a whole. requirements for the project responses from mana whenua.

36 37 Te Aranga Māori Design

The Te Aranga Māori Design Principles • Kotahitanga: Unity, cohesion and • Whakapapa: The status of iwi and are a set of outcome-based principles collaboration hapū as mana whenua is recognised and founded on intrinsic Māori cultural values respected • Whanaungatanga: A relationship through and designed to provide practical guidance shared experiences and working together • Tohu: Mana whenua significant sites and for enhancing mana whenua presence, which provides people with a sense of cultural landmarks are acknowledged visibility and participation in the design of belonging the physical realm. • Taiao: The natural environment is • Mātauranga: Māori / mana whenua protected, restored and/or enhanced Core Māori values underpin the application knowledge and understanding of, the outcome-oriented Te Aranga Māori • Mauri Tū: Environmental health is Design Principles. The underpinning Māori The principles are intended as an enabling protected, maintained and/or enhanced values are: strategic foundation for iwi and hapū to • Mahi Toi: Iwi and hapū narratives are adopt, customise and further develop in • Rangatiratanga: The right to exercise captured and expressed creatively and response to local context. The principles authority and self-determination within appropriately also provide other stakeholders and the one’s own iwi / hapū design community with a clearer picture • Ahikā: Iwi and hapū have a living and • Kaitiakitanga: Managing and conserving as to how iwi and hapū are likely to view, enduring presence, and are secure and the environment as part of a reciprocal value and participate in the design and valued within their rohe (district) relationship, based on the Māori world development of the built environment Applying mana whenua view, that we as humans are part of the within their ancestral rohe (districts). principles and values natural world. Te Aranga Design Principles are one of As part of our partnership with mana whenua, • Manaakitanga: The ethic of holistic the tools that will be used to guide the Panuku is committed to working together hospitality whereby mana whenua have future physical change through sites to weave Te Aranga Design Principles into inherited obligations to be the best hosts and projects, in order to better celebrate the physical and cultural fabric of the four they can be. Manaakitanga informs place- Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa’s unique key moves to revitalise Northcote. We will making, place activation and supports safe indigenous culture. Te Aranga Māori be guided by the Unlock Northcote project people-centred sustainable outcomes for Design principles are: charter and the Unlock Northcote Te Aranga all people. • Mana: The status of iwi and hapū as Framework to be developed during 2017. • Wairuatanga: The immutable spiritual mana whenua is recognised and respected connection between people and their environments

38 39 Wāhanga tuarua: Ō mātou manako Section two: Our ambition Rua 02 This section outlines the vision and goals we are pursuing in relation to Northcote’s function, form and people.

41 Our vision

To help unlock Northcote’s potential, Building on previous planning for Northcote’s we need to build on the suburb’s strengths regeneration as well as the conversations and overcome its weaknesses. held with community representatives. To help unlock Northcote’s Panuku’s vision for Unlock Northcote: The 2010 vision for the Northcote Town potential, we need to build on "The Northcote of 2030 will be a growing Ā te tau 2030 ka tupu a Awataha hei Centre was "the heart of our growing community, with a lively and welcoming heart the suburb’s strengths and community, a lively welcoming place that that celebrates culture, and where business overcome its weaknesses. celebrates culture, where business thrives hapori hihiko me te pokapū manaaki e thrives and everyone’s needs are met." and everyone’s needs are met." That vision whakanui ana i ngā tikanga ā-iwi, e rahi continues to reflect the desire of Northcote’s It closely follows the wording in the vision people for a place that supports healthy, safe from the Northcote Town Centre Plan 2010, ake ai ngā mahi pakihi, e ea ai hoki ngā and connected living. with slight amendments to reflect the project scope reaching wider than the town centre Northcote is physically well connected at a itself. tūmanako o te katoa. regional level, but not so well at ground level. It has a wide range of housing and tenure The vision is a legacy of many years of types, but they are not well integrated. planning work, community workshops and It has a town centre the community loves, public consultation. What came through but it offers people a relatively limited range consistently was the need for an upgrade of The Northcote of 2030 will be a of services and is vulnerable to shifts in the town centre, creation of a ‘green link’ and the market. investment in housing – all of which have growing community, with a lively been captured in this Framework Plan. We want to create a Northcote that is visible, and welcoming heart that celebrates accessible, welcoming and adaptable. culture, and where business thrives and everyone’s needs are met.

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