Redevelopment of 55 and 57 Brookvale Road, Havelock North

The Hastings District Council as the consenting authority has received an application from Oderings Nurseries ChCh Limited for a resource consent for residential development of 55 and 57 Brookvale Road, Havelock North. The applicant has requested that the application be publicly notified in accordance with Section 95A(2)(a) of the Resource Management Act 1991.

Description of Proposal:     

The proposal is described as a residential development, which comprises the following:

a) approx. 2,312m³ of earthworks (approx. 160m³ of which is to be removed off-site);
b) construction of 35 residential dwellings;
c) construction of a replacement carpark (40 parks including 2 accessible parks) to service the existing commercial garden centre and consented café;
d) associated landscaping; and
e) subdivision around the proposed residential dwellings creating:

• 35 freehold residential lots;
• a balance commercial lot (containing the existing garden centre, consented café, and the proposed carpark);
• road to vest (access from Brookvale Road, branching off at a roundabout to the garden centre/café);
• 3 commonly-owned access lots;
• associated easements (including to allow public pedestrian access to the adjoining reserve (Guthrie Park)); and
• a local purpose (drainage) reserve to vest (with easements for right of way and right to drain water to the Karituwhenua Stream).

The subject site is zoned Plains Production Zone in the Hastings District Plan (Partially Operative with the Exception of Section 16.1 & Appendix 50). The proposal requires resource consent as a Non-Complying Activity.

The application includes an Assessment of Environmental Effects, including specialist reports on Soil and Land Use Capability Classification Assessment, Contaminated Land Assessment; Geotechnical Assessment; Urban Design Statement, Landscape and Visual Effects Assessment, Transportation Assessment, Civil Design Infrastructure Report, Economic Assessment, and may be inspected at the Hastings District Council Customer Service Centre, 207 Lyndon Road East, Hastings, during office hours or below. Copies of the application are also available at Hastings District Council Public Libraries.