Tasman District Council Richmond West announcement marks key step in strategic urban development plan for the district.
Tasman District Council has today announced its plans for urban development in Richmond West over the next 30-50 years. This announcement marks a key step in a long-term strategy to ensure that urban development across the Tasman district is planned and positively supports and shapes the districts economic and social future.
Today’s announced package of decisions and proposals, combined with decisions on infrastructure works to be announced next week for Richmond West and proposals for the formation of a public drainage and reserve network extending from Richmond South to the Waimea Estuary, form a package of development planning measures from Council to ensure the successful future integration of the two parts of Richmond.
“Tasman District Council has considered, since 2004, how best to enable Richmond West to grow, and its decisions provide a well designed development plan for a major business park and adjacent residential precinct to provide jobs and a living environment for the long term,” says Mayor Richard Kempthorne.
“Council has listened to all views from the many submitters and has closely reviewed the Richmond West planning proposals to achieve both efficient and pleasant business development opportunities in a highly significant regional location,” he said.
The change forms part of a long-term strategic approach to provide for the growth of Richmond, which started with the Richmond Development Study in 2003. Other provisions for Richmond’s future growth currently include:
• defined southwards expansion of Richmond, between State Highway 6 north of Hope and Hill Street to create a high amenity residential environment
• residential and business intensification of central Richmond
• defined residential intensification in suitable locations in Richmond east, including land south of Champion Road and east of Hill Street
• support for defined northward residential expansion towards Stoke in Nelson City, north of Champion Road.
The purpose of the Richmond West change is to create a high amenity urban environment for business and residential development, including:
• Residential development that provides primarily for standard density residential development and enables compact density residential development. A design guide supports development design in this area.
• Mixed business development that provides specifically for large format retail, trade supply activities and light industry, the defining characteristics of which relate to the low impact and “clean” nature of its effects on the surrounding people and environment.
• Light industrial development that is subject to additional design standards that recognise and protect the Waimea Inlet and neighbouring residential areas from the adverse effects of industrial activity.
• Open space adjacent to the Waimea estuary to buffer the long term risks to urban development from the effects of sea level rise and to provide recreational space where owned publicly.
These changes will mean an amendment of the Tasman Resource Management Plan, effective from 26 September 2009 as a result of Council’s decisions on Plan Change 10 for urban development in the Richmond West Development Area. The Plan change, introduced in October 2007, with submissions heard between October 2008 and March 2009, provides for long-term business and residential development needs for Richmond and the wider region.
Appeals may be lodged by submitters on both the Plan change and the requirement decisions.
Other planning work across the district includes provision for major development on iwi owned land in central west Motueka and a development plan for Mapua-Ruby Bay. Planning work for urban growth in eastern Golden Bay is also under way.
More information on the changes made to the Tasman Resource Management Plan (the text and the planning maps) is available in the Decision Compilation and on the maps provided. Please click here
The detail behind the announcement
The Richmond West Development Area is the area of land bounded by State Highway 6 along the north western margin of Richmond (Richmond Deviation and railway reserve), State Highway 60 (Appleby Straight) to the west, the Waimea estuary margin to the east, and McShane Road to the north, and includes land on the north side of McShane Road opposite the Rural Industrial Zoned land owned by Nelson Pine Industries.
Next week Tasman District Council will release its decisions on a set of six public works proposals for the widening of lower Queen Street and McShane Road and other infrastructure works in Richmond West. Council’s decisions on these confirm the requirements for designated public works and impose conditions regarding term and reductions in road width from those proposed.
Plan Change 10 provides for future growth and supply of land to accommodate regional and local industrial, commercial and residential development over a period of at least 30 years as a defined westward expansion of Richmond of approximately 220 hectares of new land for urban development, most of which is deferred until services are available.
The key changes to the Plan made by the Council’s notified decisions on submissions on Change 10 are:
1. The extent of future urban development is modified by:• Extending deferred mixed business zoning closer to the estuary margin to the three metre contour southeast of Headingly Lane but retaining a filling requirement for development sites, and open space along the estuary margin
• Replacement of deferred residential zoning on land west of Borck Creek to McShane Road and SH 60 with a mix of deferred mixed business and light industrial zonings
• Extension of deferred light industrial zoning adjoining the west side of lower Queen Street, northward to Swamp Road.
• Replacement of deferred residential on a site adjoining SH 60 near Three Brothers Corner, with deferred light industrial
• Removal of deferred mixed business zoning from land on the west of the Richmond showgrounds
• Replacement of deferred residential zoning on the Club Waimea site near the railway reserve west of lower Queen Street with deferred mixed business
• Replacement of residential zoning on small sites fronting lower Queen Street near the Metlifecare site with mixed business zoning
• A comparison of proposed and decision results for areas and estimated lot yields for the three urban zonings in the Richmond West Development Area is provided in the table below. 2. The timing of development is amended by removing the stage 2 date of 2026 for part of the area so that provision of services governs release of land for development.
3. Modifications and extensions to the indicative road network to support changes to zonings
4. Specific modifications to the indicative reserve for the Borck Creek greenway
5. Refinements to built development design standards:• Setbacks for buildings from road and reserve boundaries are modified
• Amenity plantings and fencing standards within setbacks are modified
• Setbacks for subdivision and buildings in relation to the national grid electricity transmission lines are imposed in undeveloped locations
• Site coverage in the mixed business zone for some activities is increased.
The greenway network for drainage and reserve functions is proposed as a series of naturalised environmental channels, with the network designed to contain a flood of 100 year return period (1% likelihood in any year). In some parts, hydraulic channels are to convey water through constrained areas. Alongside the environmental channels a reserve network is proposed to provide high amenity open space with planting for wildlife as a corridor from the foothills to the estuary.
In addition to the channel network two stormwater detention basins are proposed in the Richmond South Development Area covering 2.5 hectares in area.
The greenway network requirements are proposed to replace the network of indicative reserves introduced in 2006 and 2007 by Plan Changes 5 and 10. It is expected that the cost of land and works to form the greenway network will be from a targeted rate for stormwater, and development and financial contributions.
More information on the changes made to the Tasman Resource Management Plan (the text and the planning maps) is available in the Decision Compilation and on the maps provided. Please click here
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