Urban Design Forum

31 July 2010

What's Hot summary

[New 9 March 2010]

1. Auckland Council
3rd Stage Governance Bill - UDF's submission

Visit our What's Hot? page for more information.

2. Good Solutions Guide for Mixed Use Development in Town Centres (2005) (non-statutory) are available free from North Shore City!

Visit our Resources page for more information.

NZS: 4404-2004

NZ Standard 4404 on Land Development and Subdivision has been reviewed and is out for public comment until 5 February 2010

Standards New Zealand is reviewing the New Zealand Standard for Land Development and Subdivision Engineering. The draft of NZS:4404 - 2010 is now available for review and public comment on the Standards New Zealand website (www.standards.co.nz). Please note that submissions need to be very specific. The recommendation from Standards New Zealand is that the best way for a submission to be adopted is to re-write the specific offending text including section, page references and preferred illustrations.

To assist you in understanding the proposed changes UDF committee members from the review team have been on a roadshow throughout the country to provide an overview presentation of the proposed amendments including:

- Why was an update needed?
- What influenced the committee’s thinking?
- What was wrong with the 2004 version?
- What is new?
- How can you contribute in forming a response?

The attached pdf is the images form the presentation. (note this is a large 5MB file, please allow time for download)

NZS: 4404 - 2004 is widely used as the base document by territorial authorities and designers for technical compliance for the subdivision and development of land where these activities are subject to the Resource Management Act 1991.

The Standard covers earthworks, roads, drainage, water supply, services, landscaping and is a guide to good practice setting out design objectives to be achieved and standards that can be used as a means to comply with those objectives.

Welcome to the Urban Design Forum

The Urban Design Forum NZ (UDF) has worked to promote good urban design in New Zealand since 2000. Modelled loosely on similar groups in Australia and England, UDF is supported by the New Zealand Planning, Landscape, Architecture, Engineering and Surveying Institutes.

The purpose of the Forum is to promote cross-disciplinary understanding of urban design amongst urban professionals, to raise awareness generally at the national and local levels of the benefits of urban design and to provide a forum for discussion of design-based approaches that are relevant to the development and management of New Zealand towns and cities.

Membership is open to anyone interested in urban design and includes planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers, surveyors and other professionals, together with politicians, academics, developers and individuals.

The organisation is run entirely by volunteers, with administrative assistance provided by the New Zealand Planning Institute.

photos (l-r)
Nuffield St, Boffa Miskell Ltd (photo: Simon Devitt)
Britomart, ARTA
Queen Street Upgrade, Architectus, (photo: Simon Devitt)
Nuffield St, Boffa Miskell Ltd (photo: Simon Devitt)
Huntly Streetscape Upgrade, Opus International Consultants
Palmerston North City Heart, R.Johns, J.Powell landscape architects, CCM Architects (photo: Paul McCredie)

Email: enquiries@urbandesignforum.org.nz

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UDF National Committee Elections

National Committee announced
For all information on the election of the UDF National Committee here

Upcoming Events

Auckland
The University of Auckland
Winter Events presented by The School of Architecture and Planning commencing Wed 28 July running through until 26 October 2010 download programme

NZPI CPD Programme
How to be an Effective Expert Witness 03 August
Case Law Update 06 August
Creating Effective and Enforceable Resource Consent Conditions 09 August

somewhat different – Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention exhibition 31-July-29 August; Shed10, 90 Wellesley St, Auckland CBD (entrance through 77 Cook St)

Fifth Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference 17-19 Nov

Hamilton

NZPI CPD Programme
NZS4404: 2010 Land Development and Subdivision Infrastructure 02 August
Written Communication Skills for Planners 17 August

Wellington
Dollars and Sense of Walking - Living Streets Aotearoa 4th New Zealand Conference 1-3 August

NZPI CPD Programme
Creating Effective and Enforceable Resource Consent Conditions 02 August
Case Law Update 10 August
2010 Local Government Environmental Compliance Conference 16 September

Christchurch

NZPI CPD Programme
How to be an Effective Expert Witness 04 August
Case Law Update 17 August

Other New Zealand

NZPI CPD Programme

Napier
Creating Effective and Enforceable Resource Consent Conditions 16 August

New Plymouth
NZS4404: 2010 Land Development and Subdivision Infrastructure 30 July

Rotorua
Creating Effective and Enforceable Resource Consent Conditions 10 August

Tauranga
NZS4404: 2010 Land Development and Subdivision Infrastructure 03 August
Case Law Update 13 August

Palmerston North
Case Law Update 12 August

Queenstown
Creating Effective and Enforceable Resource Consent Conditions 05 August
NZS4404: 2010 Land Development and Subdivision Infrastructure 05 August

International
3rd International Urban Design conference, 30 Aug-1 Sept Canberra
International Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Conference - Calgary Canada - 18-20 October 2010

Vist the respective calendars on our Events page for venue and all information

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UDF Partners

Urban Design Forum Participating Institutes:

NZPI - New Zealand Planning Institute
www.planning.org.nz

NZILA - New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
www.nzila.co.nz

IPENZ - Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand
www.ipenz.org.nz/ipenz

NZIA - New Zealand Institute of Architects Incorporated
www.nzia.co.nz

NZIS - New Zealand Institute of Surveyors
www.surveyors.org.nz