UDF Urban Design Legacy Event : taking lessons from the past and looking to the future
hosted by UDF on 19 October 2010 at the School of Architecture, University of Auckland
Download the summary of the UDF Urban Design Legacy Event - thank you to our contributors, organisers and attendees
[3 August 2010]
Developing an urban design action plan. UDF continues to advocate for urban design to be a core function of the new Auckland Council.
Auckland-based members of UDF met in May 2010 to discuss the range of urban design actions that the new Auckland Council needed to look at.
The focus of discussion was on the “nuts and bolts” of council processes and decision-making, rather than the big strategies. Attached are the (edited) notes of the meeting UDF intends to take up the issues highlighted with the new Council. (resources page). Any comments would be welcome.
See below UDF's submissions on the Auckland Council:
[9 March 2010]
Two key concerns for the Forum are the management of local roads and the role of the spatial plan. See the commentary by Graeme Scott and David Mead on the growing gap between the recommendations of the Royal commission and government actions in relation to the structure of the new Council. (resources page)
UDF recently presented its submission to the Select Committee considering the third re-oganisation Bill, asking for urban design to be recognised in the set up of the new transport CCO and in the purpose of the spatial plan.
UDF also made a submission on the Auckland Regional Land Transport Strategy, stressing the need for the Strategy to provide more direction on the way local and arterial roads should be managed by the new stand-alone transport group. The Committee requested that UDF provide some thoughts on how the Corridor Management Plan guidelines of the Strategy could be modified to better reflect urban design issues.
Submissions from UDF on the Auckland Council:
two on the re-organsiation Bills,
two on the structure of the new Council ,
one on the main policy documents that the new organisation will implement - the Regional Land Transport Strategy - and the associated comment on corridor management plans.
- - 3rd Stage Auckland Governance Bill 11 February 2010
- - 2nd Stage Auckland Governance Bill 26 June 2009
- - UDF Submission on Land Transport Strategy 18 December 2009
- corridor management plans - - UDF Submission on ATA 4 December 2009
- - UDF Comment to ATA 26 November 2009
(prepared for UDF by Graeme Scott & David Mead)
For further information and commentary on the urban design issues involved, go to the Resources page
For more information on the actual Bill, go to:
www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/SC/Details/AucklandGL/1/3/f/00DBHOH_BBSC_SCAGL_1-Business-before-the-Auckland-Governance-Legislation.htm