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Landscape focus group workshop

Outcomes from session 1

Attendees:
Peter Green
Graham D'Arcy
Graham Hooper
Pauline Francis
Sue Pockett
Phil Blackwood
Margaret Mills
Sarah Nairn (ACC)
Daphne Mitten
Katherine Dorofaeff (ACC)
Dr Rachel Ebbett
John Hudson (ACC consultant)
Brian Griffiths
Dorothy Wakeling (facilitator)
Lynne Stewart

Apologies:
Sally Smith

Date:
27 September 2005

Time:
9am to 2pm

Venue:
Surfdale Hall

Brief developed for City Planning:

1. Land units
   Case studies of land units (where they did not work in protection of landscape?)
   • Land unit 11 and 12 interface eg, The Strand at Onetangi (land units 11, 12 & 14)
   • Eastern Waiheke (only land units 1-10 apply), application of land unit 8 (eg Margaret Mills' property)
   • Park Point - Titchener subdivision, land unit 22
     Summary / definition of land units and A2 map
2. Outstanding Natural Landscapes
   Information on ecological areas (SES)( also look for PNA survey maps)
3. Coastal
   Case studies of recent resource consents
   • Park Point
   • Houses around the coast eg: Matiatia Bay, Te Whau (Margaret Reeve Lane, north side), Sprat house (Destiny Bay)
   Case studies are to analyse (in matrix format):
   • bulk
   • notification
   • mitigation
   • subdivision size
   • location (building platform)
   • proximity to coast and cliff
4. Ridgelines (and catchments)
   • Definition of significant ridgelines - taking account of different vantage points (sea and land)
   • Case studies - Margaret Reeve Lane, Mt Maunganui
   • Maps - ridgeline and catchments
5. Colour / form / scale / size of buildings
   No separate brief (covered in other issues)
6. Vegetation
   • Summary of ARC and ACC roles (functions) in weed and pest control
   • Enquire how other councils do weed / pest control - esp Waitakere City
   • Process for cutting down native trees over 3m (how council handles this)
   • Protection for exotics i.e. general tree protection
7. Walkways
   • Information on the process for establishing walkways eg through subdivision. Summary of difference between esplanade reserves/strips and when they are taken.
   • Map of existing walkways
   • Case studies of 'lost walkways'
     • Fossil Bay (access to look out point blocked between two houses)
     • Park Point (not as assessable as we have been told, walkway diverted)
8. Other information
   Need summary of ARC proposed change 8, including methods and criteria (to explain why landscapes were chosen) and implications (2 pages only)