Request
On 3 May 2011 Stevenson Group lodged a plan change request with Auckland Council to initiate the regulatory planning processes associated with the proposed Drury South project.
The Drury South project area totals 361Ha and is bounded by SH1 in the west, the Drury Quarry and the Hunua foothills in the east. The proposed plan changes include new objectives, policies and rules that are designed to ensure that the Drury South area is developed in a way which reflects its primary function to provide for land extensive industrial activities in South Auckland and to support the regional growth strategy of containment and intensification.
As the project area is currently zoned for rural purposes, plan changes to the Papakura and Franklin District Plans (under the new Auckland Council these planning documents are still operative) are required for the project to proceed. Because the project area lies outside Auckland’s current Metropolitan Urban Limit an amendment to the Regional Policy Statement is also required to enable the district plan changes to be effected. The amendment to the Regional Policy Statement in turn necessitates an application for a storm water network discharge consent.
It is likely to take Auckland Council several months to process the request before it is publicly notified for submissions. A report will need to be prepared by Council and the request will then be considered by the appropriate Committee. A decision will need to be made to accept or adopt the proposed plan changes. Following from this it will be necessary to instigate changes to the Regional Policy Statement. Public notification is not expected until the third quarter of 2011. Once publicly notified, the technical information relating to the request will be available through the normal venues, such as Council offices, Local Board offices and service centres and local libraries. In the meantime we have attached all the application documents as pdfs – see below.
How to view the application
To help you find your way around the plan change request documents as simply and quickly as possible we have broken down the request into the various technical reports.
Click on ‘view’ to view a document quickly and easily onscreen – just like reading a book on your computer. This provides lower file size is great quality for reviewing purposes and you can use your arrow keys or your mouse to turn the pages, bookmark pages you want to refer to later, send links to a page you like and choose what pages you want to print. Open in a new window so you will need to close it to come back to this page.
If you require a higher quality version click ‘pdf’ to download a higher resolution pdf file. This will take longer to open than the ‘view’ option but may be better for printing maps, plans and drawings.
