Te Tumu\u2019s status as a priority growth area<\/a> for the city, \u201cand avoid the multiple years of various delays that have held Te Tumu back to date\u201d.<\/p>\nNegotiating infrastructure corridor agreements with Tumu Kaituna 14 Trust (TK14), which owned the block connecting to P\u0101p\u0101moa, was key.<\/p>\n
Adams said Carrus had drafted a compensation arrangement with the trust for legal access for a road, which he hoped the council would also sign on to.<\/p>\n
Council head of city planning and growth Andy Mead said the council had taken legal advice on its options for the access road through the TK14 block, which the trust wanted to retain ownership of.<\/p>\n
Mayor Mah\u00e9 Drysdale, who was leading the negotiations, said he was confident the council and trust would come to an agreement.<\/p>\n
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An aerial view of Te Tumu, a future housing development, photo taken in 2022. Photo \/ Kiri Gillespie<\/p>\n
Mead said the council would work with landowners to explore ideas to speed up rezoning through the transition processes, but it anticipated \u201cpotential difficulties\u201d arising.<\/p>\n
Mead said significant structure planning work would continue on the project, so it was \u201cready to go\u201d when the new planning system was available.<\/p>\n
There was \u201cnothing\u201d stopping landowners from starting a private plan change or applying under the Fast-Track Approvals Act, which could progress the development faster.<\/p>\n
He said the Kaituna Link was not necessarily required to develop Te Tumu. <\/p>\n
P\u0101p\u0101moa ward councillor Steve Morris said his community would disagree, as it did not want the traffic on Te Okuroa Drive.<\/p>\n
Tauriko ward councillor Marten Rozeboom had thoughts for Housing Minister Chris Bishop.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a minister who\u2019s flat out bending council\u2019s ear to enable housing growth, meanwhile his legislation and plan stop is putting the handbrake on things, and he hasn\u2019t provided a transition piece of legislation that allows us to progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Housing Minister Chris Bishop. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n
Bishop told Local Democracy Reporting the plan stop avoided councils wasting time and money on work that likely would not have been finished, or would need changes to comply with new laws.<\/p>\n
He said the council had not applied for an RMA exemption, and developers had other options available to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Te Tumu development is not being held up by the plan stop or RMA reforms, there are pathways available to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand the real barrier to getting shovels in the ground on this development is that Te Tumu requires expensive infrastructure solutions, including significant stormwater management issues affecting the wetlands and the local environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n
Ayla Yeoman<\/a> is a Local Democracy Reporting journalist based in Tauranga. She holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in communications, politics and international relations from the University of Auckland, and has been a journalist since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This came after the Government ordered councils to stop plan changes unless approved for an exemption – an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[163102,806,12974,124,5205,16492,29429,170,3806,1872,2893,6800,1702,809,82456,12472,661,130,2686,111,43,139,69,660,23282,37865,8690,1361,34536,3055],"class_list":{"0":"post-377377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-163102","9":"tag-as","10":"tag-change","11":"tag-could","12":"tag-council","13":"tag-delays","14":"tag-deliver","15":"tag-development","16":"tag-east","17":"tag-face","18":"tag-fear","19":"tag-homes","20":"tag-infrastructure","21":"tag-keep","22":"tag-landowners","23":"tag-laws","24":"tag-major","25":"tag-more","26":"tag-moving","27":"tag-new-zealand","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-newzealand","30":"tag-nz","31":"tag-planning","32":"tag-ppmoa","33":"tag-taurangas","34":"tag-te","35":"tag-that","36":"tag-tumu","37":"tag-urging"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}