Application for resource consent

From City Scene, published on 19 January 2008

Auckland City Council has received an application for resource consent under the Resource Management Act 1991 for the following site:

94-130 Haverstock Road, Sandringham.

You can make a submission on this application. See the end of this notice for details.

Details

The applicant seeks consent to redevelop the subject site to provide for 41 new residential units. The existing 19 units would be demolished or removed.

Resource consent is required for an "Integrated Housing Development" and for the following reasons:

the removal of 10 generally protected trees
pruning or work within the dripline of five other generally protected trees
earthworks
works within a site identified as contaminated (earthworks on adjoining Horticulture & Food Research Institute), and on a site identified as potentially subject to flooding.

Development control modifications to the following controls are also required:

building in relation to boundary
minimum landscaped permeable
maximum paved impermeable
front-yard landscaping
parking in the front yard
not providing the required floor area for 14 two-bedroom units
a shortfall of 20 parking spaces
the gradient of the driveways for six units
providing more than two vehicle crossings onto Haverstock Road
the provision of six stacked parking spaces
the lack of onsite reverse manoeuvring for seven of the units.

Overall, the proposal is a discretionary activity under the isthmus section of the operative district plan (1999).

Applicant

Housing New Zealand Corporation.

Applicant's address for service

Davis Ogilvie & Partners, P O Box 21738, Henderson, Auckland (attention: Simon Yates).

Copies of the application can be viewed at:

Mt Albert Community Library, 84 St Lukes Road, Mt Albert
Auckland City Council service centre, 35 Graham Street, central city.

Making a submission

Your submission must be in writing, dated, signed and include the following information.

your name and postal address, along with any telephone and fax numbers
details of the application your submission is about (including location)
whether you support or oppose the application
your submission, with reasons
the decision you wish the consent authority to make
whether you wish to be heard in support of your submission.

Send your submission to the address in the notice. You must also serve a copy of your submission on the applicant at their address for service.

You can get submission forms online or from any Auckland City Council library or service centre.

Address for submissions

Auckland City Council,
Private Bag 92516
Wellesley Street,
Auckland 1141
(attention: administration officer, regulatory services).

Phone 379 2020,
Fax 353 9255.

Closing date for submissions

18 February 2008.