There are a number of developments of note in and around our suburbs:
Special Housing Areas
Meadowbank:
St Johns:
Kohimarama:
Special Housing Areas
Three Special Housing Areas (SHA) have been announced for Meadowbank. SHA are intended to help alleviate Auckland’s housing shortage by allowing developers to fast-track developments. Homes built in SHAs are intended to be in more affordable price brackets. For more details see the Special Housing Area page on Auckland Council’s website.
Housing New Zealand SHA
Housing NZ has two sites in Meadowbank on which they are planning to build SHA:
- Puroto/Purewa Streets, Meadowbank
- Koa St/Tahapa Cres/Meadowbank Rd
In 2015, Housing NZ lodged the following resource consent applications for both of these developments. View the original plans, number of houses and drawings: View plans for Meadowbank SHAs (3 November 2015). In February 2022 Kāinga Ora applied for resource consent for Koa/Tahapa. It is their intention is to better utilise these sections by building a greater variety of new, warm, healthy homes, designed to complement the local environment and meet the needs of today’s tenants. This redevelopment will see the existing 6 buildings with 20 units replaced with 3 Duplexes, 2 Terrace houses and a six-storey apartment. There will be 33 new homes:
- 7 x two-bedroom homes
- 4 x three-bedroom homes
- 6 x four-bedroom homes
In May 2017, we learned that Housing NZ split the four sites on 9-11 Purewa Rd/6-8 Puroto St into two. Instead of building 12 dwellings on the original four sites, they lodged a non-notified resource consent application for 11 apartments on 9-11 Puroto Street. See our news article Housing NZ applies for non-notified consent for 11 Apartments on Purewa Rd (May 2017). This resource consent was granted.
We finally had a meeting with Housing NZ about the development on Purewa Rd in July 2018. You can read more about the meeting here. Housing NZ has a picture of the planned Purewa Rd development here. Housing NZ kindly came and spoke to our monthly meeting in August 2018 to brief us on the developments underway in Meadowbank, and some background to how they decide what type of developments go on each site. Click here to view their presentation.
Risland – 6-14 Meadowbank Road, Meadowbank
Originally marketed as SOTO Residences, the developer of this project, Murdoch Dryden, gave a presentation at our August 2017 meeting with detailed drawings from the architect Monk MacKenzie. Dryden already attended our August 2016 meeting, where we learned this development will include three buildings of up to seven stories, however plans are not final. View the full notes from this meeting. See also ‘Meadowbank Special Housing Area could be seven stories high (East & Bays Courier, 4 July 2016).
Koa Flats – 4 Koa St, Meadowbank
www.ockham.co.nz/koha-flats.co.nz
At our September 2017 meeting we heard a thought-provoking and compelling presentation from Ockham Developments (Helen O’Sullivan, CEO, Mark Todd, Managing Director) on the development. This provided an invaluable insight into how the “Mixed Housing Urban” zones in our suburbs may evolve in the coming years. The presentation brought this to life by reviewing the plans and thinking behind the Koa St development, which envisages 14 studios and apartments and a swimming pool on a 630 m2 section.
Summerset St Johns – 188 St Johns Rd
In July 2015, Summerset announced that they’d secured a 127 year lease on the land adjoining St Johns Theological College, known as Parson’s Paddock. It is to become a retirement village. Summerset’s senior development manager, Aaron Smail, presented plans twice at monthly meetings in June 2016 and June 2017.
The Resource Consent application for the proposed Summerset retirement village at “Parsons Paddock” was declined. Read more here.
The application was fully notified, meaning that anyone could make a submission before it closed on 9 February 2018. Click here to view the submission documents by opening the link, then scrolling down to 55 & 57 Ripon Crescent, Meadowbank. Click “View documents” to see a list of the 80 documents association with this application.
The extent and shape of the proposal, was largely unchanged from what Summerset presented to MBSJRA meetings in 2016 and 2017. The proposal was for 344 units. The building elevations had two storey units on Ripon Crescent, three storey blocks set back from the western edge of the site, and the five and six storey blocks at the east alongside St Johns Bush. The highest part of the development remains six stories; one part of a building has seven stories where the land slopes down north of the rugby pitch. Among the other documents are environmental assessments, construction control plans, landscape designs, traffic management plans, civil engineering, geotechnical and storm water reports, urban design assessments, photo montages and other reports.
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View the full resource consent decision here (Decision following the hearing of an application for resource consent for a proposed retirement village comprising 7 buildings with 344 residential units).
View the full presentation, including artists impressions, drawings and timelines at: Summerset Retirement Village Presentation to Meadowbank & St Johns Residents Association June 2016 (PDF)
Summerset Retirement Village webpage on the Parson’s Paddock site
Summerset acquires new site in Auckland’s eastern suburbs for retirement village (Stuff.co.nz, July 2015)
Ideal aged care site for 127 year advanced rent (nzherald.co.nz, April 18, 2015)
Parson’s Paddock prime land for lease (Stuff.co.nz, April 10, 2015)
