Public consultation - Sydenham draft Master Plan
Taking care to plan Sydenham’s post-earthquake rebuild is critical to ensure the centre will be the best it can be. The draft Sydenham Master Plan sets out a direction for Sydenham’s commercial centre and the actions which are required to achieve this for community consideration and comment.
Consultation on the draft Master Plan for Sydenham has now been completed.
A summary of all 43 submissions received on the draft Sydenham Master Plan is now available:
• to view in hard copy at the Central South City Library (Shop 3, South City Mall, 555 Colombo Street) and South Christchurch Library (66 Colombo Street corner Hunter Terrace and Colombo Street).
• to view or download here [PDF 451KB].
View the summary draft Sydenham Master Plan
View the draft Sydenham Master Plan
Sydenham timescale
The master plan process for Sydenham is well underway. The public consultation/workshops and focus group sessions have now been completed. The key dates for the remainder of the plan preparation are as follows:
April 2012 - Recommendations regarding hearing of submissions to Spreydon /Heathcote Community Board
May 2012 - Recommendations regarding hearing of submissions to the Council
Mid 2012 - Adoption of Sydenham Plan
Sydenham Workshops & Focus Group Sessions Completed
More than 400 people took part in Council-led Suburban Centres Programme workshops on the recovery of Sydenham to put their ideas and aspirations forward on how their commercial centres should be redeveloped.
The community workshops provided a platform for people to identify issues, concerns and aspirations for their centre; and an opportunity to get these down on paper.
Urban design team Urbanismplus facilitated the workshops and are now leading the ‘design element’ of the master plan process, providing an opportunity to discuss and test the communities’ ideas for rebuilding and recovery of these centres. Once a draft master plan has been developed it will be taken back to the community for feedback.
Feedback from focus groups - Sydenham
Working towards a draft Master Plan for Sydenham
Sydenham
The gathering, analysis and direction of information from those meetings was presented to the Sydenham community on 19 July at a further public meeting. Sydenham master plan meeting presentation (PDF 4MB)
Hard copies are available at the Beckenham Service Centre and South Library (66 Colombo St) the Underground Café and Café 363 (The Colombo Mall, 363 Colombo St) and Central South City Library in the South City Mall (551 Colombo St).
The consultation on the initial working draft vision closed on Friday 12 August 2011.
Feedback from the community presentations is helping to shape and steer the production of the Master Plan.
(i) See community feedback (ii) See business association feedback
