Future land use and transport planning project
The Future Land Use and Transport Planning Project 2010 seeks to identify a long term spatial vision for the region, including the location of future development and supporting infrastructure, able to accommodate 2.3 million people by 2051. This report is the culmination of this project, and focuses on the third round evaluation of three land use and transport scenarios to determine which spatial form could best meet agreed regional outcomes.
Each of the three scenarios represents a different urban form. These incorporate varying levels of intensification, growth beyond metropolitan urban limits, and locations for future residential and employment growth. However, they fit into two broad categories; the compact scenarios (Scenarios 1 and 4) and the Expansive Scenario (Scenario 5).
The evaluation process assessed how well each of the scenarios could deliver against agreed long term outcomes for the region. Evaluation criteria were developed by identifying high level goals and outcomes from agreed regional strategies such as the Auckland Sustainability Framework and the Regional Growth Strategy. The resultant criteria were grouped under the four wellbeing headings – environmental, social, economic and cultural.
An expert evaluation team assessed each of the scenarios against the criteria, collating and analysing the outputs from the ARC’s integrated transport models, plus qualitative advice from expert groups, workshops, and advice from stakeholders.
The report describes this evaluation process in detail and provides some key messages about Auckland’s future spatial form.
A key part of the scenarios developed for the Future Land Use and Transport Planning project was the identification of potential growth corridors. The inclusion and testing of these corridors in the Futures Project was based on work undertaken separately by a collaborative group of Auckland planning officers to identify potential growth corridors.
Auckland regional growth corridors
The Auckland Regional Growth Strategy growth concept includes the use of centres and corridors as mechanisms to accommodate growth. To date the implementation of the Regional Growth Strategy has concentrated on the role of centres. The Auckland Regional Growth Corridors Project examines the role that corridors, as the key linkages between centres, could play in accommodating future growth in the region.
The report develops a corridor classification system, using intensive mixed-use corridors as a mechanism to accommodate future residential and employment growth in a way that integrates land use and transport planning. The main recommendation of the report is the identification of a list of suggested regional growth corridors and a staging sequence. These findings have helped to inform the development of scenarios for the Future Land Use and Transport Project.
The report was adopted by the Regional Strategy and Planning Committee at its meeting on 3 August 2010, to be made available to the Auckland Council as technical work in its consideration in future spatial planning work.
