THE SOUTHERN AUCKLAND DEVELOPMENT AND ITS PRESSURES OMNIBUS Benjamin Ross The Southern Auckland Development and Its Pressures Omnibus Benjamin Ross Version 1.0.1 April 2017 The Southern Auckland Development and Its Pressures Omnibus Contents Remarks ..............................................................................................................................................................................................6 About Me (Ben) as an Urban Geographer ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Blog History as an Urban Geographer ......................................................................................................................................... 10 Talking Southern Auckland as a Urban Geographer Digital Record ............................................................................................ 11 South Auckland – The Rising Jewel in Auckland’s Crown ........................................................................................................... 14 Wave of Positive News for an Area that often gets downtrodden on by other parts of the City ............................................... 14 Reinventing South Auckland .............................................................................................................................................................. 14 New West Sydney Aerotropolis Gives Rare Opportunity to Design New City ............................................................................ 19 What would you include in the 30 minute city? ............................................................................................................................... 19 Urban Geography: Western Sydney to Get New City. Will/Does Auckland get a New City too? .............................................. 31 Lessons in Sydney can teach Auckland .......................................................................................................................................... 31 So what to do? ............................................................................................................................................................................. 34 Pattrick Smellie: Bill English struggles to offload a billion dollars ................................................................................................. 35 200,000 New Residents. Where to House Them and Employment in South Auckland? ............................................................ 41 Building a new city? ........................................................................................................................................................................ 41 Auckland: The Donut City ............................................................................................................................................................... 48 Development is happening like a donut .......................................................................................................................................... 48 Where am I going with this? ........................................................................................................................................................ 51 Donut Obesity .............................................................................................................................................................................. 56 The Auckland Donut: A Presentation to the Council Planning Committee ................................................................................. 58 Point raised were points mentioned ................................................................................................................................................ 58 Benjamin Ross Version 1.0.1 April 2017 The Southern Auckland Development and Its Pressures Omnibus Auckland Plan Refresh: Spatial Development Ideas for Southern Auckland ............................................................................. 64 Applying Urban Geography to Southern Auckland .......................................................................................................................... 64 Spatial Development Ideas for Southern Auckland – An Urban Geography Exercise ................................................................. 68 Can or Could Southern Auckland House Another Mall ................................................................................................................ 77 Yes .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 77 Drury Mall catchment ................................................................................................................................................................... 77 Manukau Economics ................................................................................................................................................................... 80 Can Malls Blend Into the Urban Fabric? ........................................................................................................................................ 84 Yes .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 84 All under one roof: how malls and cities are becoming indistinguishable .................................................................................... 85 Auckland to Receive its 11th Metropolitan Centre? Is the Super Metro Back? .......................................................................... 93 Development in Southern Auckland opens possibility ..................................................................................................................... 93 A 11th Metropolitan Centre? ........................................................................................................................................................ 93 Drury – Home of the 11th Metropolitan Centre? .......................................................................................................................... 96 Four proposed structure plan options .......................................................................................................................................... 98 Manukau Economics ................................................................................................................................................................. 104 Kiwi’s Announcement With Drury Starts Ball Rolling on New Town/Metro Centre .................................................................. 111 All go in the south ......................................................................................................................................................................... 111 Kiwi Property plans new town centre next to Stevenson’s Drury development .......................................................................... 111 Growth Pressures in Southern Auckland: Is/Should the Super Metropolitan Centre to Make a Comeback? ....................... 118 Pressures in Southern Auckland require some more unique thinking ........................................................................................... 118 Benjamin Ross Version 1.0.1 April 2017 The Southern Auckland Development and Its Pressures Omnibus Growth Accelerating in Southern Auckland ............................................................................................................................... 123 The Re-Rise of the Super Metropolitan Centre .......................................................................................................................... 129 The Super Metropolitan Centre.................................................................................................................................................. 137 Industry: It Doesnt Cut Ribbons But It is Crucial to the Economy ............................................................................................ 145 Land shortage could force release of more land ........................................................................................................................... 145 Development Update: April 2017 ............................................................................................................................................... 146 The Future Urban Land Supply Strategy ................................................................................................................................... 151 Benjamin Ross Version 1.0.1 April 2017 The Southern Auckland Development and Its Pressures Omnibus Benjamin Ross Version 1.0.1 April 2017 The Southern Auckland Development and Its Pressures Omnibus Remarks Southern Auckland has long been stigmatised as the poor sibling in the Auckland family. With high social deprevation rates it is very easy to stigmatise rather than actually help the ‘South’ lifting its fortunes up. However, this all changed when the first mayor of the Super City – Len Brown (2010-2016) embarked on a bold vision with the Auckland Plan that would act as a road map in taking Auckland forward. One of the two big initiatives was The Southern Initiative, a multi-disciplinary focus across all sectors to invest and