Online Library here
For quick search results simply search on keywords such as “spatial.plan” or “CCO”.
Waiheke Biosphere Reserve here
The case for Waiheke Island to become a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
Waiheke Island Visitor Survey Report 2009 here
December 22 2010 :
Re Hauraki Gulf Islands Proposed Plan
Re WICPG Refinement and Consolidation of Appeal ENV 2009 AKL 000348
download here
December 7 2010 : Auckland Council and Local Board Planning Priorities
Listen to Dr Roger Blakeley on the First Auckland Spatial Plan November 22 here
- Listen to 17.48 min for three “place-based mega priorities” :
- a) CBD :
- b) southern /airport gateway :
- c) northern gateway or Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park and Islands
- Listen to 31.25 min for Timeline Stages
See the First Auckland Spatial Plan Timeline ( oct 8 version ) here
See WICPG’s Submission to Waiheke Local Board Dec 7 2010 here
September 2 2010 : Urban Design Forum together with NZPI Seminar on the Auckland Spatial Plan
Nick Smith Podcast from the NZPI Seminar on the Auckland Spatial Plan here :
Peter Winder CEO of ARC on the Auckland Spatial Plan Part 1 here ; Part 2 here : podcast Part 1 here; Part 2 here
June 3 2010 : Environmental Defence Society(EDS) Conference Podcasts :
Nick Smith here : Peter Salmon here :
June 7 and May 24 and May 6 2010 : Protecting our Coastal Landscapes
- See Local Government (Auckland Law Reform ) Bill select committee reportback section 66(3)(q),(r) re Spatial Planning and Landscape here
- Listen to Protecting NZ’s Coastal Landscape may 2 radionz podcast here
- and read our WICPG HGIPP Amended Notice of Appeal dated june 7 here
- and read the informally released Proposed NZ Coastal Policy Statement media release here
- and the PNZCPS BOI Report here
- and the Recommended NZ Coastal Policy Statement here
- and read press comments here and here
- and read Beattie on Plan Implementation from 2010 NZPI Conference here
Sept 20 & April 5 and February 15 2010 and May 21
Auckland Community Development Charter here, WICOSS Objectives here
The Supercity & The Auckland Social Policy Forum here , and Discussion Paper here , and WICPG Draft Submission here
March 21 2010
Read Rod Oram in today’s SundayStarTimes : Erecting a New Dysfunction
March 15 2010
Read Mike Lee in today’s NZ Herald : The Government is no longer listening
March 10 & 12 2010
Read Rodney Hide and Steven Joyce from today’s NZ Herald here. and here
Does their unbelievably simplistic and naive argument really justify that one non transparent and effectively non accountable size fits all. Do they have any awareness at all of the utilities engineering and planning mindset differences and practices needed for peri-urban services as opposed to metropolitan – wherein Waiheke matters are essentially irrelevant – wheelie bins proved that. What will be the future consequences for our island roads or for reticulation, and therefore so too our landscape and community character and identity. Where is the legal role for the recognition of difference. Is this really where our local democracy has fallen to ? Perhaps it should be pointed out that it is international best practice within spatial planning that local planning decisions are delegated to local whenever and wherever reasonably possible. Thus we must continue to lobby forcefully for our own peri-urban design panel in association with a separate HGMPA focused spatial plan for Waiheke and the Gulf, and for more toolbox empowered Local Boards.
March 8 2010
See Rodney Hide on Campbelllive (not screened due to Oscar coverage) here
March 8 2010
Read these two Press Reports off the Wire today from the NZ Herald.
Bernard Orsman on The Lockout of Auckland here
Brian Rudman on A Recipe for Tears here
What is it about the NZ disrespect for contributory democracy ?
Perhaps the isthmus may now be better able to appreciate our Waiheke concerns, and our structural cultural incongruity with their C&R command and control governance style. This clash of mentality – and its planning consequences – is the primary raison d’etre for our WICPG existence, that is for putting the community back into planning, and for our current fight with the ACC in the Environment Court.
March 2 2010
Beware the War on our Local Democracy otherwise named as our new Supercity.
Read PWC on Meeting the Infrastructure Funding Gap and Government Intervention
Read about the 2009 instituted NZ Treasury National Infrastructure Unit here, and here
Read the march 2010 National Infrastructure Plan here and comments here
Read about the latest Government Decisions in Response to the RCoAG here and here
Read the Auckland Transition Agency’s Discussion Doc about Roles for Local Boards
Please take time to read a selection of the below.
Click to our WICPG No #3 Bill Primary Submission here
Click to our WICPG No #3 Bill Further Submission here
Click to our WICPG No #3 Bill Speaking Notes here
Click to Marijke Ransom No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to Jerome Partington No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to Gulf News No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to EDS No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to Pita Rikys No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to Roger Bryant No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to Auckland Chamber of Commerce No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to ARC No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to NZCID No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to The Aucklander No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to Penny Hulse’s Comments on No #3 Bill here
Click to Urban Design Forum No #3 Bill Submission here
Click to Human Rights Commission No #3 Bill Submission here
February 7 2010
And now here is a welcome letter from our Chairman Rikys :
Our Waiheke Island Community Planning Group Inc through the work of its members and associates has for over five years now been working with Councils, and with community groups and environmental groups and government agencies, and with other interested individuals, to improve the planning framework and instruments as they apply to Waiheke Island and the Hauraki Gulf – Tikapa Moana.
This work has taken place during a period of unprecedented change, from the review of the Hauraki Gulf Islands Proposed Plan (HGIPP) and provision of a new District Plan, through major changes to the Resource Management Act and within that framework important work on National Policy Statements, and of course the work of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, and currently the subsequent legislative implementation for the new Auckland Council and relevant references to work by the Local Government Commission.
Members of the group have also interacted with others in these fields through attendance at seminars and conferences. Much of this work is ongoing and involves continuing research and information exchange.
Thus the purpose and objectives behind setting up this web site and online document library archive are to provide open access to the body of work carried out by the Group which can be seen as both a transparency objective, and to facilitate information sharing, and most importantly to promote more informed discourse as we prepare to enter our new Auckland Local Governance paradigm with its increased roles for Local Boards in a new low carbon limited world, and its needed shared ambitions and planning focus upon People, Places and Futures.
Pita Rikys
Chairman
Waiheke Island Community Planning Group Inc – WICPG
