Proposed District Plan Change 73 - Wellington City Council

Summary of submissions - Proposed District Plan Change 73
Submitter Number: 9
Submitter
details:
Decision(s) requested:
Rosamund Averton
12/17 Brougham Street
Mount Victoria
WELLINGTON 6011
1 - Supports the Suburban Centres review.
Wish to be Heard: No
Submission
summary:
Generally supports the plan change
and makes comment on a number of
issues including centres, the Business
Areas Design Guide, signage, building
recession planes, the Shelly Bay
Business Precinct, development at
Rongotai South, vegetation protection,
buildings on paper roads, proposed
rezonings and zone amendments,
building mass, retail activities and
consent notification.
2 - Establish a Community Consultative Committee to mirror the work of the Technical Advisory Group with regard to
building design.
3 - Balancing the economic impact of any new or refurbished centres should be seen as an imperative.
4 - Any new developments at Rongotai South should harmonise to mask inevitable bulk.
5 - Update Shelly Bay Design Guide prior to a masterplan being discussed with new site owners.
6 - Establish a register of mature, visually prominent trees and bush to be afforded protection in the District Plan.
7 - Should contain mitigation measures to minimise the environmental impact of bulky buildings.
8 - Supports provisions but should specifically include locational and directional signage, their placement and the
legibility of the information provided, including for site access.
9 - 'Building recession planes' should be renamed 'building and sunlight recession planes' to better reflect the matters
that planes are intended to manage.
10 - Buildings on paper roads should be demolished at the owners cost, and the land made good by re-planting etc.
11 - Noise of 'revving' engines through the night should be acknowledged within the District Plan.
12 - Accurate drawings showing design and scale of any approved new building should be displayed for any
consented development site.
13 - Opposes proposed rezoning of Greta Point.
14 - Opposes proposed rezoning of 4 Campbell Street, Karori.
15 - The heritage provisions should be extended to include structures, as well as buildings, objects, areas, individual
and stands of trees and vegetation. Any demolished heritages buildings/structures should be memorialised with a
visible plaque and any felled heritage trees should be replaced with a large tree of the same species.
16 - Definitions should be written in plain English.
17 - Mitigation measures should include the planting of vegetation.
18 - Esplanade reserves of 20 metres above mean sea level should be set aside.
19 - Where nuclear energy is processed for medical use, affected persons should be served with notification albeit a
courtesy notice.
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