Western Springs Stadium Precinct
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Attachment XX – 20 November Final Closing Track Changes - Black text – text agreed between the Council and Submitters - Red text - text preferred by Auckland Council and not agreed to by the Operator - Green text – text preferred by the Operator and not agreed to by Auckland Council Western Springs Stadium Precinct Precinct Description The Western Springs Stadium Precinct provides specific planning controlsfor the use of Western Springs Stadium. Western Springs Stadium is a multi-functional recreation, sporting and events venue within a natural amphitheatre that has a crowd capacity upwards of 50,000 people. The underlying zoning of the land within the Western Springs Stadium Precinct is the Major Recreation Facility Zone. Refer to the planning maps for the location and extent of the precinct. Objectives 1. Western Springs Stadium Precinct’s primary activity as a regionally and nationally important venue for: Organised sports and recreation Informal recreation; Motorsports; Concerts, events and festivals; Markets, fairs and trade fairs; Functions, conferences, gatherings and meetings; Displays and exhibitions is recognised, maintained and enabled. 2. A range of activities compatible with or accessory to the primary activity are enabled to acknowledge the Western Springs Stadium Precinct’s multi-use functionality. 3. The adverse effects of the operation of the Western Springs Precinct are avoided, remedied or mitigated to the greatest extent practicable recognising that the primary activity will by virtue of its nature, character, scale and intensity, generate 1 adverse effects on surrounding land uses which are not able to be fully internalised. Policies 1. Enable the safe and efficient operation of the Western Springs Stadium Precinct for its primary activity 2. Protect the primary activity of the Western Springs Stadium Precinct 3. Enable a range of activities compatible with or accessory to the primary activity where they are of a character and scale which will not displace the primary activity 4. Manage the adverse effects of the operation of the Western Springs Stadium precinct., having regard to the amenity of the surrounding environment. 5. Recognise that the precinct's primary activities may generate adverse effects that are not able to be fully internalised and need to be further mitigated by limiting or controlling their scheduling, duration and frequency. 6. Recognise the potential for reverse sensitivity effects to arise and require new activities that are likely to be sensitive to the effects generated by the Western Springs Stadium Precinct to manage the risk of generating reverse sensitivity effects including through their location, design and operation Comment [CS1]: RFA – If Reverse Sensitivity Policy is not retained in Precinct Rules the Zone or in the event that the MRF Zone is not retained then RFA seek 1. The rules in this section implement the objectives and policies in Chapter X.X, this Policy be included within the Precinct section X.X. provisions. Council agree 2. The Auckland wide rules apply to the Western Springs Precinct except: with this view. Comment [CS2]: To a. The temporary activity rules; be updated once new b. Noise; chapters and section numbers are known. c. Lighting rules d. For permitted activities: 2 3. Activity Table Activity Activity Status Any activity not otherwise provided for D Any activity that does not comply with a traffic management land use C control Primary activities: P Organised sports and recreation Informal recreation ; Motorsports; Concerts, events and festivals; Markets, fairs and trade fairs; Functions, conferences, gatherings and meetings; Displays and exhibitions Accessory activities P Compatible activities Sports, recreation and community activities P Professional pyrotechnic displays Filming activities Compatible activities not otherwise permitted RD Development Any new building or external alteration or addition to a building for a P primary, compatible or accessory activity Any new building or external alteration or addition to a building excluding RD any temporary building located within an interface control area of: 10m of a road (excluding Stadium Road) or within 20m of a residential zone Demolition of buildings P Temporary buildings and structures P Workers accommodation P 3 4. Notification 1. Any otherwise permitted or restricted discretionary activity and/or development that does not comply with noise and/or lighting and/or special noise and lighting event controls will be subject to the normal tests for notification under the relevant sections of the RMA. 2. Any new building or external alteration or addition to a building that does not comply with permitted standard of rule 6.2 or rule 6.3 will be subject to the normal tests for notification under the relevant sections of the RMA. 5. Land Use Controls 5.1 Noise 1. Standard Noise Limits a. The noise (rating) levels from any activity within Western Springs except for Motor Racing and Special Noise Events shall not exceed the following limits when measured within the boundary of any site with a residential zone: Time of day Noise limit 8.00 am – 10.30 pm 55 dB LAeq At all other times 40 dB LAeq and 75dB LAmax i. Noise levels shall be measured in accordance with NZS 6801:2008 Acoustics – Measurement of Environmental Sound and assessed in accordance with NZS 6802:2008 Acoustics – Environmental Noise. ii. The Prescribed Time Frames for the purpose of assessment according to NZS6802:2008 shall be the timeframe for which any particular noise limit applies. 2. Motor Racing a. The noise (rating) levels from motor racing within Western Springs Stadium must not exceed the following limits when measured 10m inside any part of the northern boundary of the Stadium that has a clear view of at least 75% of the track: i. LAeq(5min) 89dB and LAeq(5hour) 83dB. b. All noise sources from within the stadium (except localised contamination) shall be measured during a motorsport event to determine compliance with this noise limit. i. Noise levels shall be measured in accordance with NZS 6801:2008 Acoustics – Measurement of Environmental Sound and assessed in accordance with NZS 6802:2008 Acoustics – Environmental Noise. 4 ii. No duration correction or adjustment for special audible characteristics will be applied. iii. Where LAeq (5min), is specified, no 5 minute measurement sample shall exceed the stated limit. iv. Race meetings and practice sessions must be no longer than 5 hours from start to finish, including all breaks and warm-ups. v. Race meetings and practice sessions shall start no earlier than midday. Practice sessions must conclude no later than 6pm and race meetings must conclude no later than 10.30pm, except that any race meeting on a Sunday must conclude by 9.30pm. vi. Race meetings and practice sessions may only be held as follows: 2 practice sessions in October; 3 race meetings in November; 2 race meetings in December; 3 race meetings in January; 3 race meetings in February; and 1 race meeting in March. vii. There must be no race meetings on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Auckland Anniversary Day or Waitangi Day and one weekend per month from November to February (inclusive) must have no race meeting. viii. A draft Event Programme must be provided to the Council and notified publicly in June each year. The Event Programme may provide for a race meeting to be held on the day following the day it was scheduled for if the scheduled race meeting is rained out, however this may only occur in relation to 8 of the 12 race meetings and those meetings where rainouts are permitted must be specified in the Events Programme. A race meeting is deemed to be rained out if any of the scheduled races cannot take place due to rain. Only the races that were scheduled to be undertaken but could not be may be undertaken on the rainout day. ix. Mechanical car park sweeping and grading of the track must not take place on Sundays unless it is the day of an authorised rainout event. x. Motor Racing includes only those events held under the auspices of Speedway New Zealand. 3. Public Address System a. The noise (rating) level generated by from the public address system during speedway meetings shall not exceed the following noise limits when measured at or within the boundary of any site within a residential zone: i. 69 dB LAeq(5min) and 80dB LAmax 5 b. Noise levels shall be measured in accordance with NZS 6801:2008 Acoustics – Measurement of Environmental Sound and assessed in accordance with NZS 6802:2008 Acoustics – Environmental Noise. c. Where LAeq (5min), is specified, no 5 minute measurement sample shall exceed the stated limit. d. No Duration Correction or penalty adjustment for Special Audible Characteristics will be applied e. Crowd noise is to be excluded from any assessment of compliance with these limits. f. The public address system loudspeakers must not be used during racing. 4. Special Noise Events a. The maximum number of Special Noise Events shall be as per the table below. b. For the purpose of this rule Special Noise Events are any activity that exceeds the standard noise controls but comply with the Special Noise Event controls, excluding professional pyrotechnic displays and helicopter flights. c. Special Noise Events may occur consecutively over a day or days, but may not exceed the total number of Special Noise Events allowed in any 12 month period. d. There shall be no more than 2 Special Noise Events on any one day. e. There shall be no more than 4 Special Noise Events within any 2 week period. f. A single Special Noise Event shall be limited to a total duration of 6 hours. Any Special Noise Event lasting longer than 4 hours shall be counted as 2 Special Noise Events. g. High Special Noise Events shall start no earlier than 10am and shall finish no later than: i.