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The latest design for the Hibiscus Coast Community RSA’s new clubrooms went before Auckland Council for resource consent recently.
The final proposal has been developed over more than a year after initial plans proved unworkable due to geotechnical issues.
As a result, the site of the building on the club’s land in Vipond Road, Whangaparaoa, has been relocated to the vicinity of the bowling green.
The redevelopment is a rescue package for the club, which has struggled to survive financially.
To fund the build, and support its operations in future, the club is proposing to subdivide its adjacent site at 20 Melia Place, and part of its Vipond Road site, into 23 lots for residential development. A proposed sale of 20 Melia Place to a developer in 2017 fell through.
RSA executive committee and building committee member Norm Greenall says key to the plan currently before Council was the preservation of memorials, ceremonial areas and vegetation, including the cenotaph and the plaques and ashes buried in the wall on the Vipond Road driveway. It was also important to make provision for the club’s hosting of commemorations, such as Anzac Day.
The new, 2-storey building will provide a modern, light and airy “community friendly” space with a restaurant, bar, multi-purpose hall for functions as well as facilities such as toilets and car parks.
Council planners are assessing the proposal, and no decision regarding public notification has yet been made.
