Council Information Session/Workshop
Agenda
Notice of Information Session/Workshop Te Pānui o te Hui:
A Council Information Session/Workshop will be held
on:
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025
Time: 9.30 am - 12.00 pm
Venue: Ngā Purapura/Activity Room, Level 1,
Tūranga Library, 60 Cathedral Square, Central Christchurch
Membership Ngā
Mema
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Chairperson
Deputy Chairperson
Members
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Mayor Phil Mauger
Deputy Mayor Pauline Cotter
Councillor Kelly Barber
Councillor Melanie Coker
Councillor Celeste Donovan
Councillor Tyrone Fields
Councillor James Gough
Councillor Tyla Harrison-Hunt
Councillor Victoria Henstock
Councillor Yani Johanson
Councillor Aaron Keown
Councillor Sam MacDonald
Councillor Jake McLellan
Councillor Andrei Moore
Councillor Mark Peters
Councillor Tim Scandrett
Councillor Sara Templeton
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23 May 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS NGĀ IHIRANGI
1. Apologies Ngā Whakapāha................................................................................. 3
Information
Session/Workshop Items
2. Central
City Noise Plan Change 21 - Options and preferred option discussion............ 5
10.00 am – 10.30 am
Presenters:
Holly Gardiner - Senior Policy Planner and Darren Bridgett - Team Leader City
Planning
Break: 10.30 am
– 10.45 am
3. Annual
Plan 25/26 Workshop (if required)........................................................... 27
10.45
am – 12.00 pm
Presenters: Peter
Ryan - Head of Corporate Planning & Performance and Bede Carran - General
Manager Finance, Risk & Performance / Chief Financial Officer
4. Items
Closed to the Public................................................................................ 28
1. Apologies Ngā Whakapāha
Apologies will
be recorded at the meeting.
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2. Central
City Noise Plan Change 21 - Options and preferred option discussion
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Reference Te Tohutoro:
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25/827345
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Presenter(s) Te Kaipāhō :
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Holly
Gardiner, Senior Policy Planner;
Darren Bridgett, Team Leader City Planning;
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1. Detail Te
Whakamahuki
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Purpose and Origin
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· This Information
Session is regarding the priority draft plan change relating to noise in the
Central City, which is now also referred to as Plan Change 21.
· Council resolved in April 2023 to commence a plan change process
to the District Plan, including an evaluation of options for managing the effects
of noise in the Central City.
· Staff last
presented to Council on 25 February 2025 on the proposed timeline, issues,
possible options and high-level expert advice in relation to noise in the
Central City.
· Staff will now
outline the preferred and alternative options for amendments to the District
Plan.
· This session is
being held ahead of informal public engagement on the draft plan change prior
to formal notification in September and October.
· Pre-notification
engagement with the public will commence in June 2025.
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Timing
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This information
session is expected to last for 30 minutes.
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Outcome Sought
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That
Council is informed of the preferred and alternative options for the plan
change, ahead of wider public engagement.
Councillors
have an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback on the preferred
and alternative options.
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ELT Consideration
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ELT are
aware of the plan change and the timeline for milestones, including this
information session to Council before pre-notification engagement commences.
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Next Steps
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Informal
public engagement on the draft options and preferred option will occur in
June 2025 for a period of four weeks. Following the close of the informal
engagement period, staff will review feedback in further developing the plan
change.
Thereafter,
in September staff will seek approval from Councillors to formally notify the
plan change.
If
Council agrees to notify the plan change, the formal submissions period would
run for 20 working days (four weeks) from September to October.
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Key points / Background
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· Council is required to follow the Schedule 1 process set out in
the Resource Management Act 1991 when preparing a plan change.
· The plan change timeline is as follows:
o informal engagement with the public on proposed options in June
2025;
o a request to Council to notify the plan change in September;
o the formal submissions period occurring across September and
October 2025;
o Analysis of submissions, further gathering of evidence and
preparing for a hearing would occur between the close of submissions and into
2026.
· Issues identified to date include reverse sensitivity effects arising
where there are ongoing tensions between noisy activities in mixed use zones
and residential activities in the Central City; that noise limits are too
restrictive for entertainment activities in some locations where they have
established outside of Category 1 and 2 areas, requiring costly acoustic
insulation and/or limiting their hours of operation; and that the noise
insulation requirements for sensitive activities are insufficient in some
locations where nosier activities were not anticipated (Category 3 areas).
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Useful Links
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· Central City Noise Plan Change 21 – Proposed plan change
website
· Slides from
Information Session – 25th February 2025.
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Attachments
Ngā
Tāpirihanga
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No.
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Title
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Reference
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Page
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a ⇩
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Central City Noise
Plan Change 21 - Further clarifications following Information Sessions
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25/964325
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7
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Signatories Ngā Kaiwaitohu
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Authors
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Holly Gardiner
- Senior Policy Planner
Darren
Bridgett - Team Leader City Planning (E)
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Approved By
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Mark Stevenson
- Head of Planning & Consents
John Higgins -
General Manager Strategy, Planning & Regulatory Services
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3. Annual
Plan 25/26 Workshop
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Reference Te Tohutoro:
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25/898383
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Presenter(s) Te Kaipāhō :
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Peter
Ryan - Head of Corporate Planning & Performance
Bede Carran - General Manager Finance, Risk & Performance / Chief
Financial Officer
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1. Detail Te Whakamahuki
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Purpose and Origin of the Workshop
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· This is a reconvened Workshop from the 19 May 2025 regarding the
development of the Council’s final 2025/26 Annual Plan.
· The workshop continued on 22 and 26 May 2025.
· Refer to the 19 May 2025 for the Agenda: https://christchurch.infocouncil.biz/Open/2025/05/ISCC_20250519_AGN_10538_AT.PDF
· All additional documents presented through the Workshop’s
will be available in the Minute’s Attachments following the conclusion
of this final workshop.
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Attachments Ngā Tāpirihanga
There are no
attachments for this report.
Signatories Ngā Kaiwaitohu
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Author
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Samantha Kelly
- Team Leader Democratic Services Support
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Approved By
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Samantha Kelly
- Team Leader Democratic Services Support
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4. Items Closed to the Public
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The information session/workshop items noted
from the next page will not be open to the public under the sections of the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA) outlined
in the table on the following page. The full wording of the noted LGOIMA
sections is found in section 6 or section 7 of the Act.
In the Council's view, these reasons for
exclusion are not outweighed by public interest considerations in section 7(1)
favouring their release.
The public can ask the Ombudsman to review
this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
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ITEM NO.
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GENERAL SUBJECT OF EACH MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED
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SECTION
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SUBCLAUSE AND REASON UNDER THE ACT
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PUBLIC INTEREST CONSIDERATION
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Potential Release Review Date and
Conditions
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5.
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Property Update
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s7(2)(b)(ii)
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Prejudice Commercial Position
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This matter contains information concerning another party. the
public release of the information may prejudice their commercial position and
outweighs the public interest in this matter.
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30 June 2025
When agreed with the provider of this information
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