Worker Accommodation – Hansen Road
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
2023-151
Applicant
No. 1 Hansen Road Limited
Project summary
To construct a mixed-use development consisting of seven or eight buildings between 10 and 18 metres (three to six storeys) high that will provide 400–600 residential units to be used as temporary worker accommodation and communal utility facilities for the local workforce. Some of the buildings will include ground-floor retail/commercial space, and the project will also include construction of three-waters infrastructure and internal roads, parking areas, and pedestrian and cycle paths.
Location
1 Hansen Road, Frankton, Otago.
Referred projects order
Schedule 81 to the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Referred Projects Order 2020 [New Zealand Legislation website]
The project will:
- generate employment by creating approximately 540 full-time equivalent jobs (including in the construction industry which was affected by COVID-19) over a 4-year design and construction period
- increase housing supply by creating 400–600 residential units targeted to workers
- progress faster than would otherwise be the case under standard Resource Management Act 1991 process.
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, 955 KB]