Riverbend Residential Development
This project has been referred to an expert consenting panel for fast-track consenting under the Covid-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting Act 2020).
Project ID
2021-049
Applicants
- Tawanui Developments Limited
- K3 Properties Limited
- Mana Ahuriri Holdings Limited.
Project summary
To subdivide land in stages in Onekawa, Napier and to construct a housing development that may include:
- public open spaces, including a 1.5-hectare expansion of Maraenui Park
- approximately 648 residential units or (if the proposed expansion of Maraenui Park does not proceed) approximately 670 residential units
- commercial premises of up to 4,500 square metres, to be located at ground-floor level below a number of the residential units, for retail, childcare, and other purposes
- infrastructure including roads, parking and three waters services.
Location
195 and 215 Riverbend Road, Meeanee and 20 Waterworth Avenue, Onekawa, Hawke’s Bay.
Referred projects order
Schedule 31 to the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects Order 2020 [New Zealand Legislation website]
The project will:
- help to achieve the purpose of the Act
- have positive effects on social well-being by providing a diverse range of housing types in an area where additional housing supply is urgently needed and where there are limited affordable housing options
- provide approximately 186 full-time equivalent jobs per year over a 2-year planning and construction period
- increase housing supply through the construction of approximately 648 or 670 residential units
- likely progress faster than would otherwise be the case under the Resource Management Act 1991 standard processes.
Any actual and potential adverse effects arising from the project, and proposed mitigation measures, can be appropriately tested by an expert consenting panel against Part 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991 and the purpose of the Act.
Section 17 report
Section 17 report [PDF, 782 KB]