Future Napier
Committee - 18 June 2020 - Open Agenda
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Agenda items
1 Building
Act Changes.......................................................................... 3
2 Resource
Consent Activity................................................................... 5
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Future Napier
Committee - 18 June 2020
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Agenda Items
1. Building
Act Changes
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Type of Report:
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Information
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Legal Reference:
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Building Act 2004
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Document ID:
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932415
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Reporting Officer/s & Unit:
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Malcolm Smith, Manager Building Consents
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1.1 Purpose of Report
To advise the Future Napier Committee
on the potential implications on Council from proposed changes to the Building
Act exempt work provisions.
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Officer’s
Recommendation
The Future
Napier Committee:
a. Note
that the proposed changes to the Building Act will have minimal implications
for Council.
b. Direct
Officers to explore the possibility of growing the Building Team further to
process applications for AlphaOne Councils.
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1.2 Background
Summary
On Sunday 24 May 2020 the
Minister for Building and Construction announced that the Government is
introducing new exemptions to the Building Act with most of the new exemptions
expected to commence at the end of August.
1.3 Issues
Possible issues include a drop in
consent numbers, as more work is exempt, and a lack of compliance with the
building code from exempt work.
1.4 Significance and Engagement
N/A
1.5 Implications
Financial
Council has manually filtered
building activity reports covering the last 12 months in order to estimate the
future implications on building consent activity/volume.
Nineteen building consents that
were identified as meeting the new exemption criteria based on the information
available at the time of writing this report with further guidance to be issued
by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment before the new
exemptions commence.
The 19 building consents are less
than 1.5% of the total number of building consents issued for the period and
would result in a loss of revenue to Council of approximately $13,500 excl GST
which is less than 1% of the relevant revenue for the period.
The “loss”
won’t be realised. This is because the Building Team never get to the
bottom of the pile of building consents coming in and there is a continuous
flow of consents. Further, as described below, flow of building work has
already been augmented through consents processing for other councils.
Social & Policy
N/A
Risk
There is no risk to Council as
exempt work is legislatively exempt. In terms of risk that there is
insufficient consent volumes for the building team to process, Council is
fortunate as the activity as the building team is currently processing building
consent applications for other Councils using a shared AlphaOne end to end
electronic building consent system (for clarity, whilst Napier City Council
undertake processing the inspections are performed by the contracting council).
NCC began processing for Selwyn
on 3 March 2020 and as at 27 May 2020 the building team have processed 64
applications for them resulting in revenue of $60,662 incl GST. It should be
noted that since 21 April a further team member has been processing for Selwyn
due to their increased workload during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Feedback that we have
received from Selwyn’s Building Manager to date is that they are very
satisfied with the shared service agreement. The following comments were
received:
· “Thanks
for the update – really appreciate how well you guys self manage your
workload – it has made it really easy to bring the Napier team on board.”
· “Really
appreciate the work your team are doing Malcolm, they are certainly making a
difference for us!”
· “Great
effort from the Napier team this week too with 23 dwellings out the door so far
this month – you guys rock!”
1.6 Options
The options available to Council
are as follows:
a. Do nothing and continue with
business as usual.
b. Although not specifically
relating to the purpose of this report Council does have the option to explore
the possibility of growing the building team further to process applications
for other AlphaOne Councils who are currently engaging external contractors to
do this work.
1.7 Development of Preferred Option
Option b preferred option as
indications are that there may well be an increased opportunity for NCC in this
space post the COVID-19 lockdown with many Council’s reviewing the way
their people work.
1.8 Attachments
Nil
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2. Resource Consent Activity
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Type of Report:
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Information
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Legal Reference:
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Resource Management Act 1991
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Document ID:
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936789
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Reporting Officer/s & Unit:
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Paul O'Shaughnessy, Principal Resource Consents Planner
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2.1 Purpose of Report
This report provides
an update on the status of major developments applying for resource consent in
Napier.
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Officer’s Recommendation
The Future
Napier Committee:
a. Receives
the report.
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2.2 Background
Summary
The below outlines the current
resource consenting activities in Napier and the status of these for
information purposes.
Current / On-going and
Approved Resource Consents:
· Proposed
Hotel, 161 Marine Parade
o 59-accommodation
units proposed over four levels and one ground level floor retail tenancy
o The substantive approval
was issued in 2018 and the current approval was a variation on this consent to
address changes to the design and layout of the building
o The approval did
include an exceedance of the 10m maximum height though this effect has been
largely mitigated via façade treatments and materiality and by the use
of building layout and recession
o The proposal was
subject to significant urban design scrutiny both by the application and
Councils Urban Design Lead
o Current Status: approved
on a non-notified basis, 4 June 2020
Figure 1: Proposed Hotel site location
Figure 2: Proposed Hotel approved plan
· 19-lot
residential subdivision, 16 Willowbank Avenue and part of the Te Awa Structure
Plan Area (stage 5)
o Forms part of the
larger Willowbank Avenue block which is subject to a separate application to
establish a gated 168-lot residential subdivision
o The gated
subdivision will be subject to public notification but is currently on-hold at
the applicants request as they consider whether to proceed with notification or
amend the application to achieve a greater level of compliant and smoother
consent path
o Current
Status: approved on a non-notified basis, 2 June 2020
Figure 3: 19-lot residential subdivision site layout
· Proposed
Lifestyle Village, 16 and 38 Willowbank Avenue
o Proposal to
establish a gated residential development encompassing 162-lots accommodating
162 dwellings which will be targeted at retirees and those over the age of 55
years
o The proposal is for
an internal road network would be privately owned and managed by a Body
Corporate rather than being vested in Council which is not legally possible due
to the presence of a gate
o The proposal is
that all 3 Waters infrastructure (water, sewer and stormwater) will be located under
the private roads and vested in Council with access to these services being
provided to Council by an easement in gross in and favour of NCC
o Council have made
their position clear that they do not favour owning 3 Waters assets that are
located in private land
o Councils position
is that all 3 Waters infrastructure should be held and managed either by
Council (including all roads vested in Council) or alternatively all held and
managed in private ownership
o Current Status:
a notification decision has been made and full public notification is
required. The application is currently on-hold as the applicant decides
whether to proceed with notification
Figure 4: Proposed Lifestyle Village site layout
· 35
Kenny Road, Te Awa Suburban Commercial Development
o Subdivision to
separate out the ‘balance’ of lot (lot 2) from the site containing
the approved commercial development (lot 1) and subsequent unit title
subdivision of the commercial units
o Current Status:
approved on a non-notified basis, 4 June 2020
Figure 5: Te Awa Suburban Commercial Development location
Figure 6: Te Awa Suburban Commercial Development approved
plan
· 35
Kenny Road, Te Awa Commercial Development/Proposed Licenced Premise
o Proposal to allow
the already consented café to hold a liquor licence (on-licence) and
operate up to 9pm in the evening (current consent allows café to operate
until 7pm)
o Current Status:
processing of the application is at an early stage and subject to a
notification assessment with noise effects being a primary issue to be
considered
Figure 7: Te Awa Commercial Development/Proposed Licenced
Premise proposed plan
· 170
Taradale Road (former Placemakers site), proposed commercial/retail multi-unit
development
o Application
progressing and economic analysis currently being reviewed to ensure the
development does not compromise other commercial zones in the City
o Current Status:
on-hold pending confirmation of economic analysis and notification assessment
Figure 8: 170 Taradale Road proposed commercial/retail
multi-unit development site location
Figure 9: 170 Taradale Road proposed commercial/retail
multi-unit development proposed plan
2.3 Attachments
Nil