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Have Your Say in Maungakiekie-Tamaki on Auckland Unleashed

Monday 16 May 2011, 5:06PM

By Auckland Council

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Maungakiekie-Tamaki communities
Maungakiekie-Tamaki communities Credit: Auckland Council

AUCKLAND

We are talking with our Maungakiekie-Tamaki communities about the draft discussion document Auckland Unleashed. This is a new type of plan, and will shape Auckland for the next 30 years and beyond so we want to hear what you think.

We warmly invite you to come and meet with us at one of the following times and locations:

· 6-8pm, Monday 23 May, Glen Innes Community Hall, 96 Line Rd

· 9-11am, Wednesday 25 May, Oranga Community Centre, 52C Waitangi Rd

· 6-8pm, Thursday 26 May, Onehunga Community House, 83 Selwyn St

· 12-2pm, Friday 27 May, Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board office, beside the Panmure Library, 7-13 Pilkington Rd

We encourage you to give your feedback on the draft Auckland Unleashed discussion document by 4pm on Tuesday, 31 May 2011. (You can click here for the full document www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/PlansPoliciesPublications/theaucklandplan/
Documents/theaucklandplandiscussiondocument.pdf and here for the summary www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/PlansPoliciesPublications/theaucklandplan/
Documents/theaucklandplandiscussiondocumentsummary.pdf ).

To have your say, you can:

  • Attend one of our meetings above
  • Email your thoughts directly to theaucklandplan@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
  • Post your comments to: Freepost Authority 237170, Auckland Council, The Auckland Plan, Private Bag 92300, Auckland 1142.

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Why is it important to have your say?

Maungakiekie-Tamaki communities currently are, and in the future will be, affected by the Auckland Plan. To ensure the plan really is a combined agreement with the people of Auckland, business and government, our communities need to make their voices heard. We need to have our say on things like:
 

  • the existing and future land use pattern (residential, business, rural production, and industrial);
  • the existing and future location of critical infrastructure such as transport, water supply, wastewater and stormwater, other network utilities, open space and cultural and social infrastructure;
  • nationally and regionally significant areas;
  • ecological areas that should be protected from development;
  • recreation and open space areas;
  • environmental constraints on development;
  • landscapes, areas of historic heritage, and natural features;
  • how Auckland might develop, including provision of infrastructure and the timing and types of residential and job growth;
  • the policies, priorities, programmes, and land allocations required to implement a strategic direction and how resources will be provided for this.


Our areas of Glen Innes, Mt Wellington/Sylvia Park, One Tree Hill, Onehunga, Oranga, Penrose, Panmure, Pt. England, Riverside and Te Papapa will be affected – most of these suburbs have already been identified for significant increases in population and/or jobs. We also have suburbs very close to us, such as Ellerslie, Otahuhu, Pakuranga, Stonefields and Three Kings, identified as possible growth areas.

Is the Tamaki Edge or the Onehunga/Penrose industrial area nationally and/or regionally significant?

What sort of protections do we want for our natural treasures such as Ann’s Creek, the Manukau Harbour, Maungakiekie-One Tree Hill, Maungarei-Mt Wellington, the Panmure Basin and Tamaki Estuary?

Significant transport infrastructure like the Auckland-Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative (AMETI), bus lanes along roads such as the Great South Road, the development of regional cycleways and walkways, the southern, eastern and Onehunga rail lines, and State Highways 1 and 20, all have an impact on us. We are home to the Penrose substation and all major electrical transmission lines take power through our communities from the south.

Having our say on Auckland Unleashed is the way we can influence all of these things and more as Auckland Council develops the Auckland Plan which will be adopted by the end of 2011. The Auckland Plan will then affect the Auckland Council 2012-2022 Long-Term Plan (budgets and work programmes for the next ten years) which Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board’s agreement will be part of each year. Fitting our projects, priorities and programmes into this plan means we can get them underway.

All community members are welcome to contribute
- please circulate this invitation far and wide.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our meetings or hearing from you!