Pedestrianising Queen Street
The NZ Herald (on the front page of the print version too!) has an article today on a few of the things that I mentioned in a blog post last week the new Auckland Council was thinking about when it comes to improving Auckland’s CBD.…
9 Comments Transport and the Auckland Spatial Plan
As I noted last week in my blog post on the London Spatial Plan (known as the “London Plan”) a lot of emphasis is being put on the Auckland Spatial Plan (known, surprisingly enough, as the “Auckland Plan”). This was further reinforced by Auckland Transport CEO David Warburton, who in response to a question I asked about “how are we going to integrated land-use and transport when our planning and transport staff are in two separate agencies?”…
Council’s exciting CBD vision
The agenda to the February 1st meeting of the Auckland Future Vision Committee contains a paper on the “Proposed International City Masterplan”, which seems to be a holistic look at how to transform Auckland’s CBD over a 20 year period into a much nicer place.…
London’s Spatial Plan
A lot of discussion in planning circles at the moment is about the upcoming ‘Auckland Spatial Plan’. There’s even an article in today’s NZ Herald about the Spatial Plan and its importance:
Dr Blakeley said work was “full speed ahead” on preparing the draft Auckland Plan, and was on target for June next year, despite some views that such a big task would take three to five years.…
Planning controls and urban sprawl
A week ago I wrote a post about how, contrary to common perception (particularly the perception of a certain Minister of Transport), planning rules (and planning in general) tends to force lower density urban environments – rather than forcing higher density environments against the market’s will.…
Forcing urban sprawl
There are two big planning developments that will happen throughout this year which will inevitably reignite the “sprawl versus intensification” debate that has been going on in Auckland for many decades. The two big planning issues are the development of the Auckland Spatial Plan and the ‘urban’ changes being proposed to the Resource Management Act. …
Guest Post: developing Glen Eden
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It has been talked about quite a bit in the last few days about the need to intensify around train stations and other PT corridors to help make the system more viable.…
Rod Oram on National Radio
In the comments, Rob Russell has alerted me to the fact that Rod Oram talked about transport and spatial planning on National Radio this morning. A link to listen to the item is here.
Somewhat coincidentally, I’ve also received today a copy of the original SAHA International assessment of the cost-effectiveness of the various Roads of National Significance that Rod Oram’s article a week and a bit ago referred to.…
Rudman on the Spatial Plan
NZ Herald columnist pulled out one of his best articles yet today – shining a light on the diverging opinions of central government and the Auckland Council when it comes to Auckland’s transport and land-use planning future.
Writing in the Sunday Star-Times, Mr Joyce said the challenge for Auckland’s spatial planners would be “not to impose their ideal Auckland on us, but allow for an Auckland that reflects the varied ways in which the people of our biggest city already choose to live”.…
Joyce gets defensive
Last week wasn’t a good week for Transport Minister Steven Joyce. Starting on last Sunday, highly acclaimed business journalist Rod Oram wrote a superb article completely slamming the business cases for a variety of the roads of national significance that Joyce is so fond of.…
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