Auckland Council has published the Independent Hearings Panel’s recommendations on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan.
The Panel has provided the Council with maps which represent its recommendations. These maps are available through the Council’s GIS viewer.
To see what these recommendations may mean for Remuera and your own property, click here.
The Council has now to decide whether to accept or reject these recommendations. Its decisions will be publicly notified on 19 August.
The Auckland Unitary Plan is to be the future Planning Rule-book for all of Auckland, covering pretty much everything about what, where and how you can build in Auckland. For a very simple guide to the proposed Unitary Plan, click here.
Implemented as proposed, the Unitary Plan has far-reaching implications for Remuera, known for its many large houses and quiet tree lined streets. As in the rest of the Isthmus, there has been wholesale removal of single house zoning from our suburb: over 60% of Remuera’s residental zoning will now fall into the mixed residential suburban category. And although planning rules related to height and distance to boundary will remain, it is recommended that restrictions on pre-1944 housing be removed – along with cultural assessments, design statements and integrated transport assessments as standard resource consent requirements. Increased population density and changed suburban character will inevitably result.