Urban Form Design

祝各位春节快乐！

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

As we reflect on the past five years of operation, we sincerely thank our clients and consultant partners for their continuous trust and support. We value our partnership and look forward to what lies ahead.

Commissioners have approved Plan Change 108 today. This plan change re-zones approximately 2ha of land in Papakura from Rural - Countryside Living Zone to Residential - Mixed Housing Urban Zone; and introduces a new precinct to the Auckland Unitary Plan to apply to the re-zoned land and adjoining Rural - Countryside Living Zone land. The plan change also shifts the Rural Urban Boundary to align with the boundary between the proposed Residential - Mixed Housing Urban Zone and the Rural - Countryside Living Zone.

Urban Form Design developed the underline master plan which re-aligns the Rural Urban Boundary, shapes the structure of the new precinct and informs the provisions of this plan change. Urban Form Design also provided specialist reports and provided expert evidence at the public hearing.

Happy Chinese New Year!

2024 has been challenging, enriching and fulfilling for us.

We thank our clients for their continuous support and trust. We also thank our consultant partners for fighting and delivering alongside us.

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Let's carry on in 2025!

RC granted through hearing

Urban Form Design was engaged to provide site master-planning, architectural design and initial urban design assessment of an infill development in Orakei, Auckland, in late 2021. The resource consent application was lodged in March 2023. Since the lodgement, our client has received various types of 'resistance'. Hence, the consultant team and our client collectively decided to voluntarily public notify the resource consent application at the beginning of 2024. The public hearing was held in September 2024. Today, the independent hearing panel "resolved that this application be granted with conditions".

In our opinion, infill 'rear-lot' developments have been more than common to deal with intensification/population growth in existing suburbs of New Zealand for the last 2 to 3 decades. Many of recent developments have been criticised for various reasons. However, we believe that, before the nation comes up some other solutions (such as local councils designating new streets or lane ways for parcels to front onto and to reduce the dimensions of existing street blocks), infill developments will have to remain dominant and perhaps the only way, to deal with urban intensification in the built-up areas.

https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/have-your-say/hearings/find-hearing/Pages/resource-consent-hearing-documents.aspx?HearingId=472

春节快乐！Happy Chinese New Year!

Thanks so much for our clients and consultant partners for another productive year.

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We will be back on 8 January 2024. Hopefully, there will be more confidence and clarity in the market and NZ's planning legislative and executive systems in 2024.

Here are some highlights of our 2023.

A bungalow-extension - one of recently 'occupied' projects