How has the township boundary been determined?

Last updated on 27 July 2020

The protected settlement boundary for Gisborne has been informed by analysis of Gisborne’s structure and adjacent land areas, landscape and environmental features to be protected, access to shops, services, schools, public transport and community facilities.

The extents of the boundary has been determined through a Land Supply and Demand Analysis (LSDA) (Urban Enterprise, 2020). The LSDA estimates that there is an existing land supply equivalent to approximately 2600 lots in Gisborne’s existing residential areas.

The LSDA suggests a demand rate of 130 lots per year, this equates to 20 years of land supply. The draft Structure Plan intends to guide Gisborne’s growth to 2050. The supplied demand rate has been multiplied by 30 years to estimate the need to provide an additional 1300 lots of land supply within this timeframe.

The Gisborne community has expressed apprehension and concern with the level of township growth that is occurring, therefore a conservative approach has been taken through the uniform application of a 130 lot per year demand rate.

A high-level yield analysis of potential growth areas has been undertaken to determine the capacity of areas nominated as ‘long-term future residential expansion’ in the Gisborne/New Gisborne Outline Development Plan (2009) to meet this demand.