Private Plan Change 55 - Gabites Block

Decision

On 1 February 2023, the Council resolved to adopt the recommended decisions and to approve the Private Plan Change 55 (PPC55) with modifications. On 15 February the decision was notified. Please see supporting documents below for more information.

Both submitters and the applicant had the right to appeal the decision to the Environment Court in respect of the following:

• A provision / matter included or excluded in the PPC55, or
• A provision which the decisions of the Council proposed to include or exclude in the private plan change.

This is provided the person referred to the provision or matter in their submission on the private plan change.

Any Notice of Appeal must be lodged with the Environment Court within 30 working days of being served notice of the decision. The appeals process closed on 29 March 2023.

The submitter must also serve a copy of the Notice of Appeal on to Upper Hutt City Council and every person who made a submission on the matter to which the appeal relates to within 5 working days, after the Notice of Appeal is lodged with the Environment Court. 

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The hearing for Private Plan Change 55 took place on 17 and 18 October 2022 - please see documents below for more details

Back in March, we received and accepted a Private Plan Change request to rezone the site at 1135 Maymorn Road, Upper Hutt (Private Plan Change 55). The proposed changes would mean the current General Rural and Rural Production zoning would be changed to a newly created Settlement Zone to allow approximately 170 – 200 residential units to be built on the site. 

The submissions closed on 5:00pm Wednesday 13 April 2022. We received fifty responses.

Further submissions opened on Wednesday 1 June 2022 and closed on Friday 17 June 2022 at 5pm. We received 3 further submissions.

We want to reiterate that private plan changes are not initiated by Council. 

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Background

The Upper Hutt City Council has received and accepted the following private plan change request to the Upper Hutt Council District Plan 2004. Private Plan Change 55 (PPC55) proposes the rezone of 74.5 hectares of land at 1135 Maymorn Road, known as ‘Gabites Block’, from its current Rural Hill and Rural Valley zoning to Settlement Zone.

The private plan change request also proposes the introduction of a “Gabites Block Development Area” for the site. The applicant is proposing a range of objectives, policies and rules that will manage future development on the site. These provisions are outlined in the Section 32 report(PDF, 2MB) and the proposed amendments(PDF, 1MB) to the Upper Hutt District Plan.

Stage	Status	Documents
Decision	Appeal period closed 29 March 2023	Decision report(PDF, 5MB) Public notice(PDF, 88KB)
Hearing	Hearing - 17 and 18 October 2022	Minute #1 of independent hearing panel(PDF, 151KB) Section 42a report(PDF, 2MB) Appendix 1 - Proposed amendments to PPC55 as notified(PDF, 6MB) Appendix 2 - Recommended decisions on submissions(PDF, 278KB) Appendix 3 - Full wording of PNRP relevant objectives and policies(PDF, 245KB) Appendix 4 - Landscape evidence(PDF, 171KB) Appendix 5 - Transport statement(PDF, 255KB) Appendix 6 - Infrastructure evidence(PDF, 1MB) Appendix 7 - Ecology statement(PDF, 121KB) Section 32AA Evaluation of proposed amendments(PDF, 741KB) Minute #2 - closing of hearing(PDF, 101KB) Requestors Evidence  Traffic and Transportation Evidence - Jamie Whittaker(PDF, 2MB) Ecology Evidence - Annabelle Coates(PDF, 1MB) Engineering Evidence - Alan Blyde(PDF, 7MB) Landscape Evidence - John Hudson(PDF, 1000KB) Planning Evidence - Andrew Cumming(PDF, 716KB) Planning Evidence - Andrew Cumming - Attachment 1 - recommended amendments(PDF, 7MB) Planning Evidence - Andrew Cumming - Attachment 2 - Email from GWRC Parks Dept(PDF, 7MB)   Documents tabled at Hearing Submitters Submitter #30 - Fire and Emergency(PDF, 177KB) Submitter #34 - Judith Swildens(PDF, 206KB) Submitter #40 - Greater Wellington Regional Council(PDF, 213KB) Submitter #42 - Waka Kotahi(PDF, 97KB) Submitter #15 - Robert Anker(PDF, 107KB)   Applicant  Opening legal submissions(PDF, 387KB) Engineering summary of evidence - Alan Blyde(PDF, 204KB) Traffic and transportation summary of evidence - Jamie Whittaker(PDF, 150KB) Planning summary and update of evidence - Andrew Cumming(PDF, 217KB)   Council Opening statement - Corinna Tessendorf(PDF, 315KB) Infrastructure summary statement - David Patrick Wilson(PDF, 2MB)   Traffic and transportation summary statement - Don Wignall(PDF, 108KB)
Further Submissions	Closed on 17 June 2022 at 5pm	Further Submissions(PDF, 483KB)
Submissions	Closed on 13 April 2022 at 5pm	Public Notice(PDF, 251KB) Summary of Submissions(PDF, 684KB) Full Submissions(PDF, 10MB)
Notification	Notified on 9 March 2022	Plan Change request(PDF, 8MB) Section 32 Report(PDF, 2MB) Proposed amendments to the Upper Hutt District Plan(PDF, 1MB) Archaeology Assessment(PDF, 3MB) Integrated Transport Assessment(PDF, 7MB) Ecological Assessment(PDF, 9MB) Landscape Analysis(PDF, 50MB) Geotechnical Assessment(PDF, 15MB) Infrastructure Report(PDF, 4MB) Soil Contamination(PDF, 2MB) Soil and Land Use Capability(PDF, 3MB) Memorandum - Update to Gabites Block Plan Change(PDF, 703KB) Public Notice(PDF, 145KB)