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The development of 20 Link Crescent, Whangaparaoa into a 60-house residential area with a reserve is expected to gain resource consent by the middle of this year, with earthworks scheduled to begin in October.
Developer McConnell Property, in tandem with Auckland Council CCO Panuku Development Auckland, applied for resource consent at the end of February. As the development has been given Special Housing Area status, the consent will proceed without public notification.
A mail drop is to expected go out to local residents affected by the development this month.
The plan put forward for consent differs in several ways from that initially proposed by the CCO.
A total of 60 residential dwellings, from two bedroom terraced housing to three bedroom ‘duplexes’ and four bedroom detached houses are planned – a slight increase on the original 56 homes proposed.
Panuku property development manager Adam Sadgrove says that the proposed buildings are in accordance with the development controls relating to density, building coverage, height, internal building separation and relationship to external boundaries.
The layout shows dwellings no longer running along the northeastern perimeter of the site and the reserve area shifted slightly to the north and reduced in size.
The reserve area – originally 3000sqm, is now 2700sqm and includes a children’s playground. A separate area, at 8 Link Crescent, has been set aside for the Family Centre. Stormwater will be piped, rather than creating a wetland as originally proposed. Mitigation for this is the planned return of the stream at D’Oyly Reserve. (see story)
Mr Sadgrove says that Panuku, along with McConnell Property will hold a public open day sometime in June once the resource consent decision is confirmed, “to talk the community through the plans”.
The original and current plans for the development can be seen, side-by-side here.
