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Multi-million dollar urban growth corridor Northland to Auckland on the cards

Susan Botting
By Susan Botting
Local Democracy Reporter·Northern Advocate·
12 Feb, 2020 07:00 PM3 mins to read

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The Northland to Auckland corridor's already being described as the Whangarei-Auckland corridor or Marsden Point-Auckland corridor.

The Northland to Auckland corridor's already being described as the Whangarei-Auckland corridor or Marsden Point-Auckland corridor.

A multi-million dollar urban growth corridor could soon stretch from Northland to Auckland in the wake of major Government infrastructure spending into Northland.

Greg Innes, Whangārei District Council (WDC) deputy mayor, said the corridor would critically combine Central Government, local government and a range of other funding for what would be a new initiative for the region.

It would become New Zealand's second urban growth corridor. The first was the Hamilton-Auckland Corridor signed off in August last year by Government ministers, local mayors and mana whenua.

The Northland to Auckland corridor's already being described as the Whangārei-Auckland corridor or Marsden Point-Auckland corridor.

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Based on the Hamilton-Auckland model, a second Marsden Point-Auckland corridor would likely see partnership between at least Whangārei District Council, Kaipara District Council, Northland Regional Council and Auckland Council, together with NZ Transport Agency, Kāinga Ora (the Government's new crown agency for housing and urban development throughout New Zealand), Northland District Health Board, other central government departments and Māori to manage predicted urban growth along the route.

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Innes said it was very clearly being messaged that central government wanted to be sitting around the table for urban development such as this.

"We need to start looking at what are our resources and what Central Government can do too," Innes told a WDC district growth strategy and climate change briefing meeting last week.

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Whangārei District Council chief executive Rob Forlong. Photo / Susan Botting
Whangārei District Council chief executive Rob Forlong. Photo / Susan Botting

Central Government was putting a lot of resources into the Hamilton-Auckland corridor.

Robust spatial planning was needed to help facilitate similar input for a Marsden Point-Auckland corridor.

Major Central Government infrastructure spending in Northland in the last weeks has seen a $692 million commitment to four-lane State Highway 1 from Whangārei south to the Port Marsden turnoff.

The completion of current four-laning extensions Auckland from Auckland north will bring just 63 kilometres of two-laned highway remaining to have the same super-sizing.

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The government is also spending $109 million on rail development northwards from Auckland.

Rob Forlong, WDC chief executive, told the briefing meeting council faced an emerging work programme around the potential new urban growth development.

It would need to set up a programme to deal with spatial planning in support of the its big picture collaborative approach - between Central Government, Māori and the private sector- in establishing the Auckland north corridor plan.

This work had to be as well as, not instead of existing business, Forlong said.

Innes said WDC needed more staffing resourcing to deal with the large amount of work involved.

The Central Government-initiated Hamilton-Auckland corridor plan aimed to shape growth along the rail corridor between the two cities.

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It was the first of its kind to integrate and co-ordinate the planning and building of housing, transport and other supporting infrastructure and services in this way.

Among its aims is integrated planning to provide access to jobs in Auckland and Waikato towns along the corridor.

Growth was managed through the integrated corridor plan. Spatial planning was one of the critical first steps in making this happen.

Innes said Local Government New Zealand has been working on spatial planning over the last six years.

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