The originally application was then withdrawn and a second one later drawn up.<\/p>\n
The first panel had concerns about the provision of water supply and wastewater management, transport infrastructure impacts and ecological effects.<\/p>\n
It said it \u201cwas not at the requisite standard required for such a significant project which is in a future urban zone with no infrastructure connectivity\u201d.<\/p>\n
But significant changes have been made and in the latest decision, the project has been approved.<\/p>\n
It has a large number of conditions on the 109ha site.<\/p>\n
Those include building an on-site wastewater treatment plant and stormwater discharge system, keeping indigenous vegetation and constructing other infrastructure such as retaining walls, communal rain gardens and water pumps.<\/p>\n
In making the decision, the panel said it invited comment from 22 parties, including supporters and opponents.<\/p>\n
The decision means resource consent and archaeological approvals can be granted.<\/p>\n
Auckland Council opposed the first application because it represented out-of-sequence growth, bringing forward planned development for both the council and Watercare by about 30 years.<\/p>\n
It was also concerned about the gap between the required infrastructure for the project and development contributions, and a lack of funding certainty.<\/p>\n
Twenty-three fast-track projects have been approved and granted consent by expert panels since the scheme began.<\/p>\n
Katie Bradford is a Senior Correspondent at the Herald. She has been a broadcast journalist for over 20 years and was based in the press gallery for 10 years. She specialises in politics, business and Auckland issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The originally application was then withdrawn and a second one later drawn up. The first panel had concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[261062,74,665,51,682,10039,170,6097,24572,71,19724,7237,2518,6804,111,139,529,69,105531,12253,43923,8466,213,57588,2044,19054],"class_list":["post-528604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-1250house","tag-after","tag-around","tag-auckland","tag-being","tag-controversial","tag-development","tag-down","tag-fasttrack","tag-from","tag-given","tag-governments","tag-green","tag-light","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-originally","tag-panel","tag-rewa","tag-second","tag-sports","tag-thumbs","tag-time","tag-turned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528604","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=528604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}