Streamlined planning provisions to enable development of a new residential suburb.

Jacks Point is a new settlement on the shores of Lake Wakatipu at the southern end of the Queenstown urban area, designed to accommodate 10,000+ plus homes. This project sought to incorporate the existing zone into the first stage of the Queenstown Lakes District Plan Review. Its purpose was to re-focus and update the policies and rules to specifically recognise and respond to changes at Jacks Point, particularly in relation to projected urban growth requirements and a need for affordable housing, and to identify opportunities to remove unnecessary regulatory controls.

Boffa Miskell were engaged by the developer of Jacks Point to work collaboratively with Council staff to draft the new zone and provisions, prepare the section 32 assessment and a landscape effects assessment report.

Location

Otago

Worked with

Queenstown Lakes District Council

Project date

2015 - 2022

The spatial layout of Jacks Point is managed through a structure plan which has been conceived through a rigorous study of the underlying natural and physical resources. A key outcome of this work was to unify the three separate structure plans and associated provisions for Homestead Bay, Jacks Point and Hanley Downs into one set of integrated provisions for the management of the area.

In preparing the new plan provisions for Jacks Point, we sought to streamline the consenting process to focus on achieving a high quality of urban and built form outcomes, so as to deliver housing and development more quickly. The new framework relies on non-regulatory processes to a much greater extent.

For the community, we have been responsible for delivering on major areas of new urban intensification, enabling a greater diversity of housing typologies, and creating streamlined provisions to facilitate quality urban development.

Our role: Boffa Miskell have been involved throughout the plan change process from inception through to Council hearings, and now into the appeal phase providing planning and landscape advice. This work has flowed into a range of developments that seek to implement the structure plan and District Plan outcomes through consents, most notably the review of the Outline Development Plan for the Jacks Point Village and subsequent subdivision.