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When will the Stonefields Community be completed?
What are the key facts about Stonefields?
What type of housing is available, and how many people will live at Stonefields?
What is a Master Planned community?
When will the Third pipe system be up and running?
When will the Wetlands be completed?
When will Stonefields be recognised as an official suburb name?
How will pedestrianisation be encouraged at Stonefields?
How is Stonefields an example of sustainable design?
Will the lake be kept, or will it go?
How will Stonefields help to provide for urban growth?
- Auckland is a dynamic city that is growing at a rapid rate. It is predicted by the Auckland Regional Council that by 2050 the population of the city could reach two million people, up from its current level of 1.3 million.
- The Auckland Regional Council has developed the Regional Growth Strategy for the city, to ensure that “growth is accommodated in a way that meets the best interests of the inhabitants of the region”. This vision is designed primarily to sustain strong, supportive communities and a high-quality living environment through “promoting quality, compact urban intensification” and encouraging “most growth within the existing metropolitan area”.
- The Regional Growth Strategy requires most urban growth to be “focused around town centres and major transport routes, to create higher density communities with a variety of housing, jobs, services, recreational and other activities (mixed use … different activities, residential, business, retail etc, sharing premises and within the same area)”.
- Stonefields is one area that has been identified to accommodate urban growth in this way, providing higher density living than has previously been seen in the city - but in a high quality manner. To this end a new Residential 8 zoning has been developed to promote high quality, high density living.
- Stonefields is a new way of living in the city: a lifestyle which provides smaller sections - that require less maintenance - alongside numerous high quality public open spaces, including parks, reserves and wetlands.
What sort of school will be built, and when?
What road improvements are planned for the Stonefields area?
What allowance has been made for the impact of additional traffic?
What form will the town centre take - what sort of shops and public amenities will there be?
What will the creation of the Stonefields town centre mean for the surrounding shops in eg: Glen Innes, Panmure, St. Heliers and Meadowbank?
What provision has there been made for parks and open space?
What is Residential 8 zoning and what does it mean?
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