Phase 4 Consultation - August 2023 - Draft 2 Gisborne Futures Structure Plan
The draft Gisborne Futures Structure Plan was endorsed for community consultation at the August 2023 Council Meeting.
It provides direction for Gisborne’s long-term planning and development, including a settlement boundary to accommodate projected growth until 2050.
The culmination of significant planning work and community feedback since 2018, this latest version of the draft Structure Plan responds to the community feedback received to the 2020 draft and proposes shaping Gisborne and New Gisborne as vibrant and attractive ‘twin villages’, including a new town centre for New Gisborne to reduce the dependency on the existing Gisborne town centre.
Submissions were invited until Monday 13 November 2023.
Phase 3 - Consultation Report - August 2022
At the Scheduled Council Meeting on Wednesday 24 August 2022, the Gisborne Futures Phase 3 Consultation Report(PDF, 7MB) was considered by Council.
At the meeting it was resolved that Council:
- Notes the Gisborne Futures Phase 3 Consultation Report and endorses the further actions to progress work to update the draft Gisborne Futures plans;
- Endorses the proposed draft boundary for further investigation that will include areas 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 outlined in the Gisborne Futures Phase 3 Consultation Report as the maximum future development scenario, noting that these areas may be modified subject to further work on the plan with no further areas to be included;
- Provide an update to submitters and project subscribers; and
- Continue quarterly project updates to submitters and project subscribers.
A second draft of the plans will be presented to the community for further consultation in 2023.
Project Update - July 2022
The first draft of the Gisborne Futures Plans were exhibited to the community over 7 weeks in August and September 2020.
Council received over 220 submissions to the project that have raised numerous matters to be addressed in more detail. Officers have been progressively briefing Councillors on the key themes that have emerged while concurrently preparing a consultation report.
Two workshops were held with Councillors in November 2021 and March 2022 to work through some of the key themes to progress the project. Council remains committed to understanding and responding to the views of the community through consultation processes around Gisborne Futures
A consultation report is being prepared that will include a summary of all submissions and officer responses to these, proposed changes to the plans and further work to be completed. The report and its recommendations will soon be presented to a future Scheduled Council Meeting to endorse. This will assist the project team to progress Gisborne Futures project to the next phase of community consultation, subject to Council’s decision.
Additional funding was approved in the 2022/23 Budget to further undertake additional work to progress the Gisborne Futures project to the next draft versions of the structure plan, neighbourhood character study and urban design framework. It is still some time away from the finish line for the Gisborne Futures project. Following further consultation on the second set of draft plans, the documents will be finalised and presented to Council for adoption. Following adoption, a planning scheme amendment to implement the project will be initiated.
Phase 3 consultation - 2020 - First draft Gisborne Futures Plans
Our draft Gisborne Futures Structure Plan, Urban Design Framework and Neighbourhood Character Study have been developed based on expert advice, best practice planning and urban design principles and community feedback gathered through previous phases of consultation.
These three key reports were released together in late July 2020:
The project also aims to improve and manage vehicle, cycle and pedestrian traffic, enable economic development and future employment opportunities, provide for open space linkages and to protect important views and landscape features.
To strengthen integrated planning outcomes, we included further work on the Gisborne Business Park expansion area into Gisborne Futures in December 2019. Council will consider the Gisborne Business Park and as part of the implementation of Gisborne Futures project.
At the 24 June 2020 Ordinary Council Meeting, Council endorsed the draft Gisborne Structure Plan, draft Gisborne Urban Design Framework and draft Gisborne Neighbourhood Character Study for community consultation.
For community consultation purposes, the opportunity to establish more shops and services east of the existing town boundary has been identified on this land in the draft Gisborne Structure Plan.
Phase 3 Consultation - 2020
Community engagement activities as part of Gisborne Futures Phase 3 Consultation in July-September 2020 resulted in 647 survey responses and 215 submissions received, as at March 2021.
Redacted versions of these written submissions are now available for public viewing, with all personal and identifiable details removed to meet privacy requirements.