Private Plan Change 15 – Tuumata: further submissions

Closed 10 Jul 2023

Opened 12 Jun 2023

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Feedback updated 6 Sep 2023

We asked

Tainui Group Holdings (TGH) requested a change to Hamilton’s District Plan to rezone about 68ha in Ruakura to allow for housing. Plans have been made for about 1200 homes.

More than a third of the 68ha site will be set aside as wetlands and swales to manage stormwater. Provision has also been made for a shopping centre and a supermarket. The Tuumata block is located between the Fifth Avenue extension and the AgResearch campus.

The proposed changes to the District Plan include:

  • Changing the zone from Ruakura Industrial Park to General Residential to provide for a range of housing options.
  • Changing the zone from Ruakura Industrial Park to Business 6 to allow for a neighbourhood centre.
  • Correcting a zoning anomaly that applies to Council-owned land – a small strip adjoining the area in the south will be rezoned from Ruakura Industrial to Knowledge Zone.
  • Incorporation of a new structure plan for the Tuumata Residential Precinct.
  • Including additional rules to implement the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS).

Submissions to Plan Change 15 were opened from 18 April to 17 May 2023.

Further submissions to Plan Change 15 were open from 12 June to 10 July 2023.

You said

We received 4 submissions and four further submissions. There is now a formal process to follow under the Resource Management Act 1991.

Hearings for Plan Change 15 are due to be held in 2024.

We did

A panel of commissioners will consider all the submissions and make recommendations to Council on the final plan change in 2024.

Keep up-to-date on the plan change here: https://hamilton.govt.nz/property-rates-and-building/district-plan/plan-changes/plan-change-15/

Published responses

View submitted responses where consent has been given to publish the response.

Overview

Private Plan Change 15 – Tuumata was open for submissions in April/May this year. A summary of submissions and copies of original submissions were made available on 12 June 2023 and you can make a further submission. 

We've since added three original submissions that were not included in the summary of submissions document. To allow you time to review these original submissions and to make a further submission, we've extended the submission period to 10 July 2023.

Tainui Group Holdings (TGH) has requested a change to Hamilton’s District Plan to rezone about 68ha in Ruakura to allow for housing.

More than a third of the 68ha site will be set aside as wetlands and swales to manage stormwater. Provision has also been made for a shopping centre, a supermarket. Tuumata is located between the Fifth Avenue extension and the AgResearch campus.

The proposed changes to the District Plan include:

  • Changing the zone from Ruakura Industrial Park to General Residential to provide for a range of housing options.
  • Changing the zone from Ruakura Industrial Park to Business 6 to allow for a neighbourhood centre.
  • Correcting a zoning anomaly that applies to Council-owned land – a small strip adjoining the area in the south will be rezoned from Ruakura Industrial to Knowledge Zone.
  • Incorporation of a new structure plan for the Tuumata Residential Precinct.
  • Including additional rules to implement the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS).

Helpful documents and links are located under Related heading at the bottom of this page.

What is a further submission?

A further submission may only be made in support of, or opposition to, another person’s submission. You can’t raise new issues. It provides an opportunity to assess the effect an original submission may have on you, and have your views considered by accredited Commisioners along with the original submission.

You do not need to have made an original submission to make a further submission.

Note to person making further submission:
You must serve a copy of your further submission on the original submitter within five working days after it is served on the local authority. 

Please note that your submission (or part of your submission) may be struck out if the authority is satisfied that at least 1 of the following applies to the submission (or part of the submission):

  • it is frivolous or vexatious
  • it discloses no reasonable or relevant case
  • it would be an abuse of the hearing process to allow the submission (or the part) to be taken further
  • it contains offensive language
  • it is supported only by material that purports to be independent expert evidence, but has been prepared by a person who is not independent or who does not have sufficient knowledge or skill to give expert advice on the matter.

What's next?

After further submissions a report will be prepared on the proposed changes and a hearing date will be set. Any submitters and further submitters who wish to be heard will be notified of this date.

After the hearing, the commissioners will make their recommendations and we’ll let all submitters and the public know the outcome.