1. LINC 101: Planning in New Zealand
Dr Suzanne Vallance (DEM)

2. Planning theory Planning and policy Substance (what we plan)
From pipes to wellbeing (and back again)
Scale : From catchment to tap
Form and content (density or mixed use)
Process (how we plan it)
Rationally? The means and the ends
Who is involved?
Why?
Statutory versus non-statutory planning
Purpose

3. State housing
1919: Workers Dwelling Act (build to rent) Planning was ‘technical’: street widths, drainage, etc within a broader political context: Workers deserve homes 1935: 400 designs for a ‘standard of living’. In 1937, Mr McGregor paid 1/3 of his income in rent

4. 1950s : Masterplanned ‘suburbs’
Planner’s role was to design and coordinate
Became clusters of poverty, areas of consolidated misery
Failure of the modern state to ‘fix’ people
Alternatives? Fix poverty!
1984: Neoliberal reforms: Grow the economy, enable individual choice in the market
Developers provide housing, planners mitigate bio-physical environmental effects, individual consumers maximize their personal ‘wellbeing’
From direct provision of housing to the accommodation supplement
In 1991, Mr Nysse paid ¾ of his income in rent
2016: state housing sold to community housing providers

5. Housing Influences (statutory)
The purpose of the Resource Management Act (RMA) is to promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources.
In this Act, sustainable management means managing the use, development, and protection of natural and physical resources in a way, or at a rate, which enables people and communities to provide for their social, economic, and cultural well-being and for their health and safety while—
(a) sustaining the potential of natural and physical resources (excluding minerals) to meet the reasonably foreseeable needs of future generations; and
(b) safeguarding the life-supporting capacity of air, water, soil, and ecosystems; and
(c) avoiding, remedying, or mitigating any adverse effects of activities on the environment

6. RMA City/district and regional ‘land use’ plans Zones
What you can do, where, by law
Effects-based (no more than minor effect on the ‘’environment’’
Focus on bio-physical environment not sufficient in addressing cumulative effects, affordability, infrastructure provision in urban areas

7. Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy
3 years of collaboration between CCC, SDC, WDC, Ecan and Transit
Signed June 2007
35 years
Location of future housing
Developing or enhancing social and retail centres of activity,
Location of areas of new employment
Integration of transport networks to service these areas
Non-statutory initially, now embedded in DPs/RPs

8. Other roles/plans
National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity
Special Housing Areas and Accord
Suburban master plans
Inclusionary zoning
Infill housing (density)
Use (mixed use)
Minor residential units
Long terms plans (LGA)

9. Non-statutory planning: funding

10. Non-statutory planning: Infrastructure and Facilities

11. Non-statutory planning: risk management

12. Back to planning theory
Planning and policy
Substance (what we plan)
From pipes to wellbeing (and back again)
Scale : From catchment to tap
Form and content (density or mixed use)
Process (how we plan it)
Rationally? The means and the ends
Who is involved?
Why?
Statutory versus non-statutory planning
Purpose