The following is supplied to members and residents in Remuera for their use as they respond to Plan Change 78. IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU CUSTOMISE AND RE- EXPRESS THE SAMPLE BELOW IN YOUR OWN WORDS, SENTENCE STRUCTURE, AND FONT. ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE REVIEWED FOR AUTHENTICITY AND ORIGINALITY BY POWERFUL COMPUTER-BASED ANALYTICAL SOFTWARE – and rejected if found to be duplicates. IN PARTICULAR, ADDRESS YOUR SUBMISSION FROM YOUR OWN PERSONAL SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVE i.e. STREET ADDRESSES
To: Auckland Council
Re Plan Change 78: Intensification and Special Character Areas
We, the undersigned strongly oppose Auckland Council’s decision to remove special character protection for our area [describe by map/address details] previously afforded under the Unitary Plan.
[or]
We, the undersigned strongly record our desire and wish to include our area [describe by map/address details].
[If you wish, to then make a general statement that you do not agree with the reduction of Special Character Area and that they should all be included].
We believe our area should be maintained as Special Character because:
(a) _______ [briefly describe why and what you value about the area, e.g. Built Form, architectural value of building/s and context, landscape values, trees, historic references, etc]
(b) ________
(c) ________
We strongly believe that our area exhibits the core qualities identified for protection as a Special Character Area and meets the guidelines of schedule 15 of the Unitary Plan and should be included in the Proposed Plan as a Qualifying Matter.
We further say that Council has: –
- Wrongly set a threshold of “high quality” in deciding which Special Character Areas it has carried forward.
- Wrongly concluded that the Reduced Special Character Area is only of “high quality” if 66% of the properties within it have scored 5 or 6 on its scale.
- Not taken into account in the Council’s own scoring methodology their own stated objectives set out in Chapter D18.1 (2) (c) of the Unitary Plan. This is an important part of the character of our suburb and immediate neighbourhood.
- Applied an incorrect and/or inadequate methodology largely based on mathematical formulae and/or used incorrect and/or inadequate criteria in assessing the value of properties within Special Character Areas including our Area.
- Wrongly excluded from consideration a number of properties in Special Character Areas, and within our Area because it has incorrectly applied its methodology in scoring them.
- Wrongly applied the methodology it has adopted in determining that our Area should not be included as a Character and Heritage Area.
We seek the inclusion of our area shown in the plan attached/ property addresess to this submission as a Character and Heritage area in the proposed plan.
We, both individually and as a group, wish to be heard in respect of the above matters.
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