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More than three years after the Ministry of Education first proposed to subdivide and sell a portion of land that is currently part of Whangaparaoa College, the outcome is still unknown.
The land is zoned for Residential – Terraced Housing and Apartments and this is what early proposals provided for.
The land was readied for sale by the Ministry of Education, and the process is handled by Land Information NZ (LINZ).
Last year LINZ put in its application to Auckland Council for consent to subdivide that would split the site, which runs along Whangaparaoa Road, west from the corner of Stanmore Bay Road to opposite the town centre, into three parcels of land.
Two of these (Lots 1 and 4 on the plan) are potentially to be sold and Lots 2 and 3 are to be retained by the college.
LINZ crown property deputy chief executive Jerome Sheppard says that LINZ is still in discussions with Council.
“These discussions have been long and complex because of difficulties for car access to busy Whangaparaoa Road,” he says.
At the moment LINZ and Council are looking at driveway access options for the Lot 4 parcel of land.
Once the issues are resolved, and the lots have been subdivided, some of the land – in particular Lot 1 – will be considered for holding in the Treaty Settlements Landbank.
The proceeds of any land sale go to the Ministry of Education to be reinvested in the school property portfolio, Mr Sheppard says.
