About the plan change
This private plan change aims to rezone approximately 84ha of land known as Ara Hills located west of Ōrewa from the Future Urban Zone to Residential - Terraced Housing and Apartment Zone, Residential - Mixed Housing Urban Zone, Open Space - Informal Recreation Zone, Open Space - Conservation Zone and Business - Neighbourhood Centre Zone.
The PPC Request includes a proposed new precinct which includes:
- provisions to recognise the ecological and amenity values of the adjacent Nukumea Scenic Reserve;
- requiring all open space to be accessible to the public even though most of it will be owned and managed by the residents;
- riparian planting along the streams;
- a Flexible Commercial Sub-precinct to provide flexibility for additional ground floor commercial floor space adjacent to the Neighbourhood Centre.
- Mixed Density Residential Standards.
The private plan change also adds the area to the Stormwater Management Control Area – Flow 1 on the Planning Maps and amends an area of native vegetation in the SEA Overlay on the Planning Maps.
Status
Notification: 22 August 2025
Submissions close: midnight on 19 September 2025.
Summary of Decisions Requested notified on 14 November 2025
Further Submissions closed on 28 November 2025, 5:00 pm.
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