Lindsay Gow
Friday 7 October 2011
Spatial Planning: What is it?
 Strategic direction
 Integrate social, economic, environmental and cultural
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objectives
High level development strategy
Enable location and timing of critical infrastructure,
services and investment
Growth/development direction, type, mix and sequence
Protection and development of recreation, ecology,
landscape, heritage
Environmental constraints
Policies, priorities, land allocations, programmes and
investments and how resources will be provided
Spatial Planning: Scale and Locus
 Upper North Island development plan(Whangarei,
Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga)?
 Economic development and infrastructure,
(especially transport nodes/corridors), community
needs and environmental assets/protection
 Competition or cooperation?
 Just planning, or planning for investment
 Urban scale development and spatial planning
The Crowded Planning Landscape
National
Regional
LTA / LTMA
LGA
RMA
Regional Land Transport
Strategies and Programs
Regional Growth
Strategies
Regional LTCCP
Regional Policy
Statement and Plans
Transport Action Plans
Sub-regional growth
Strategies
TA’s LTCCPs / Annual Plans
District Plans
Structure plans
GPS
Local
Investing
National Land Transport
Programme (NLTP)
(NZTA’s Investment
Programme)
What’s needed and who plays
 Uber multi regional plan, with government involvement
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and commitment, especially for big, lumpy infrastructure
Regional/urban spatial plans with binding, legal force on
central and local government
A formal, structured and transparent process
Business, iwi and community involvement and redress (via
independent review)
Firm, clear direction, but not fine grained prescription
Flexibility and review: multiple pathways/options
Build from existing strategies: Auckland Regional Growth;
Future Proof (Hamilton); Smart Growth (BoP)
Meaningful, structured conversations leading to
commitments