Whenuapai Business Park
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
2021-069
Applicant
Neil Construction Limited
Project summary
To:
- subdivide a 22.9-hectare site to create –
- 21 allotments for industrial development
- balance allotments for future residential development
- provide associated infrastructure
- construct a stream crossing
- undertake landscaping and planting.
Location
69–71 Trig Road and 151 and 155–157 Brigham Creek Road, Whenuapai, Auckland.
Referred projects order
Schedule 52 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 economic benefits for businesses and people affected by COVID-19 and promote certainty of investment in light industry by progressing development of land for light industrial activity within an area identified by Auckland Council as suitable and ready for such development
- have positive effects on social well-being by providing both short- and long-term employment opportunities in the Whenuapai area
- generate employment through the provision of approximately 88 direct full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs and 97 indirect FTE jobs per year over the 2 years of project construction
- likely progress faster than would otherwise be the case under standard Resource Management Act 1991 consenting processes.
Any actual and potential effects on the environment, and proposed measures to avoid, remedy, mitigate, offset, or compensate for any adverse effects, 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, 1.3 MB]