The Silverdale Centre Plan records actions and projects to steadily transform Silverdale over the next 30 years.
Silverdale has been a place of considerable change and growth.
The Silverdale Centre Plan aims for:
The plan outlines actions and projects to steadily transform Silverdale.
It also takes into account growth associated with the Millwater residential area, while retaining and enhancing its overall underlying character, heritage and vitality.
A wide range of previous and current planning, strategies, projects and policy work and previous community feedback has been considered in the development of this plan.
The target future outcome is for Silverdale to be a safe and well‑connected place that offers a range of employment activities.
In the longer term Silverdale is to offer a range of housing opportunities, celebrate its distinctive character and reinforce its role as an important town centre on the Hibiscus Coast.
Since the Silverdale Centre Plan was adopted in 2015 significant progress has been made on:
We are working on a number of other actions, such as:
For more information, email the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board or contact us.
A key move of the Silverdale Centre Plan was to develop design guidance to support and strengthen the principles of heritage character led development, for both buildings and spaces in Silverdale.
These Silverdale Heritage Led Character Design Guidelines are the outcome from this key move, and have been adopted by the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board.
The guidelines can be taken into account when considering resource consent applications within the guidelines study area, and will help inform land owners considering development in the area.
