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The direct referral provisions under the RMA allow for requiring authorities to request that notified notices of requirement be directly referred to the Environment Court for a decision, instead of a recommendation by a territorial authority and a decision by a requiring authority.
Because details of the work may not be known at the time of lodging the notice of requirement, sA provides for further detail or subsequent changes and updates to the work through an outline plan. An outline plan is required to be submitted to the territorial authority, showing details of the work or project to be constructed on the designated land.
As for the notice of requirement process, the territorial authority only has a recommendation role for outline plans. The territorial authority is only able to request changes of the requiring authority and cannot turn down an outline plan.
This approach can be helpful to allow the territorial authority to understand the designation, and can speed up the overall process allowing works to begin sooner.
Alternatively, the requirement for an outline plan can be waived by the territorial authority if sufficient information was submitted with the notice of requirement. Meaning Dunedin ratepayers were paying the gang members to continue their usual nefarious lifestyles. Should Dunedin ratepayers and residents be worried about lack of performance at home. Mixed, as some estimates of the time necessary to undertake this onerous role seem to indicate about 3 days a week.
Representing more than 70 local authorities certainly would seem to take that time at least, and much of that time will be out of Dunedin in lobbying central government. Some of the ratepayers may think that it might not be a bad thing to have the Mayor paying attention to matters out of Dunedin, but some may be thinking that he should be in Dunedin as much as possible to undertake what has been, and should be, a full-time role.
The crumbled Aurora network and the resultant huge borrowing by the DCC company to bring the network up to an acceptable standard, the sad state of much of the infrastructure which now includes the Taieri Plain, the problems of not having dividend payments from DCHL, the prospect of another ratepayer funded swimming pool at Mosgiel when the private funding dissipates, the issue of the hospital — the list goes on and on and on.
Many mayors of much smaller local governments view their role as a full-time one and some may even wonder if the previous President of Local Government, Lawrence Yule, had been paying a bit more attention to local matters then the horrific situation whereby his local ratepayers were supplied with dangerous drinking water could have been avoided.
Who knows, but we do know that Mr Yule not only had the Presidency of Local Government in his mind, but he was also eyeing up ending up in central government as the local National Party member.
If so, should a pro rata proportion of that be paid to the DCC to offset the lack of availability of the Mayor to attend to his DCC duties? Does increased responsibilities to this role because of the absence of the Mayor lead to an increased honorarium? And I wonder what advice and guidance he will be giving to Mayor Dalziel now that the pro-rugby lobby is winding up to provide a covered stadium in Christchurch?
What interesting times we live in. This query received No credible response from the mayor and councillors; or examination by the ODT reporter present. We Dunedin are confronted by a poorly detailed, plonk-down apartment building proposal that we suspect is fronted by an agent for Asian developers —it would not be unusual for such a proposal to be offered on the strength of tainted money looking for safe haven in the South Pacific. Our gullible country. The gullible shiny pants Grow Dunedin partnership.
Our ever so gullible city council under the leadership of cull-cat Cull. Not so long ago large tracts of New Zealand land were bought and sold for glass beads and muskets. A lot can happen between resource consent being granted and a deathly, failing, improperly costed build.
Beware the gift horse. It turned out Dunedin disliked the hocks of the last one 41 Wharf St , ridden by a little cardigan-wearer. The local suits were paid to make the waterfront tower seem generous, rousing and necessary. At ALL times, the Dunedin City Council MUST stay acutely awake despite its needful dependence on independent commissioners and independent professional advisors — the latter advisors, along with some council staff, appear to have greatly missed the Fact that the minimal concept plans presented for Moray Place DO NOT provide a workable building; or a building compliant with district plan objectives, policies, rules, and anticipated environmental results ….
Oh dear. Yes, expensive use of expert and staff time to massage the applicant dream — to no convincing or winning effect. On what grounds?
The inference being, oh great apartment hotel supporters, that all that glistens in green-tinted glass is gold, or might be a five star hotel. Yeah right. It never was. The gold, I mean. The five star hotel, I mean. A hoover-up of NZ cash to offshore parties who remain anonymous throughout planning and consenting, and construction and building operation; all supported by the errant notion of immigrant labour and imperfect imported materials.
During five days of evidence and submissions, one knowledgeable submitter, Mr Russell Lund — well up on construction management, hotel building costs, the visitor accommodation market and investment patterns, and the risk and liability to local authorities in consequence — carefully outlined the quandaries which for various councils around New Zealand have become money-losing Unalterable Fact.
In the original written submission for himself and Suzanne Lund affected property owners , Mr Lund asserted:. Under the Act, the assessment of effects is required to be just that, an assessment of effects on the affected properties and tenants. Incredibly, the assessment makes no attempt to examine the effects on all the affected parties.
This, of course, is echoed in independently written and voiced submissions by many opposing the application; and curiously, it is underlined in evidence given by Mr Don Anderson planning consultant and Mr David Compton-Moen urban design, visual amenity consultant , for the applicant. I am open to being persuaded. It is expensive to do that persuading. However, it has to happen in other city centres in this country.
These are open questions but they lie at the heart of A for architecture as the practical art and science of building economics and professional practice. Behind and in front of the commercial facades, that must have depth of delivery. Now, back to the points the Lunds are making. In their original submission on the application, Mr Lund says:. I have serious concerns about the expertise and amount of resource that has gone into assessing the feasibility of the project.
The proposal now is for rooms and 66 apartments, which is not substantially different. The car parking and front of house areas are similar to the original application. The application confirms the hotel has a gross floor area of 20, m2. Evidence of this is found for the building costs of the much simpler room 4 star Novotel Hotel being built at Christchurch airport after a competitive tender process and utilising an Asian fabricated structural steel structure.
The Novotel is a filing cabinet design, that is, it is a completely regular rectangular structure which provides the most efficient floorplates and the best wall to floor ratio, ie the least amount of exterior wall enclosing the maximum possible amount of interior space.
The Novotel has no balconies. Mr Tosswill may be planning to bring in a Chinese construction company who will park a retired cruise ship at the waterfront for the duration of the project and have their workers stay there, but they will be subject to the same minimum wage laws, working conditions and health and safety requirements that local companies face, which will dramatically reduce any cost benefit from using overseas labour.
One hopes it would be also unacceptable to have a Council endorsed project built using essentially, forced labour. There is sufficient doubt around the financial viability of the project that the applicant should provide some evidence that the entire scheme is not in fact fanciful, but makes economic sense, and provide details about the proposed ownership model, which is highly relevant to Council, in light of their liability which is discussed below.
Mr Tosswill may think he is able to make savings from current building costs by utilising Chinese products, but many Local Authorities around New Zealand are very wary of various untested products as there have been many failures for which Local Authorities ultimately end up bearing the cost of. This raises another issue which is the massive liability that the building control division of the Dunedin City Council will be exposed to, in relation to its building consent approval and compliance monitoring.
The experience of the QLDC in recent years is extremely relevant : A large number of hotel and apartments have been built in Queenstown and the individual hotel rooms and apartments are sold off individually. A body corporate is then responsible for repairs and maintenance. The developer has no long term or permanent stake in the completed structure, and therefore no incentive to specify materials and pay for quality standards with the long term in mind.
It should be remembered that QLDC has a 7 metre height limit, but despite this, on complexes less than a quarter of the size of the proposed hotels, the cost to repair has run to millions.
QLDC has advised this year in the Otago Daily Times that it has now completely drained its reserve fund for remedial building work, and any further costs will need to come directly from ratepayers. At the Hearing, in submission, some proposals will be presented to show how the design liability and weathertightness risk to Council and ratepayers can be mitigated in the unlikely event that the proposal is given consent and such consent is upheld in the Environment Court.
Proposal 1 : A bond be posted with Council to cover sufficient funds to get the building to completed weathertight envelope and have the podium and all external works completed in the event the project is halted.
This is to protect indemnify the DCC against any claims brought against them in relation the building consent process, compliance monitoring or any matter for which they are liable for. The applicant tabled NEW evidence at the hearing, from Infometrics. Infometrics assume that the 64 apartments will all be in the hotel pool, but acknowledge this is unclear. This is an unrealistic assumption. In my opinion this report is an example of tailoring assumptions to achieve the desired outcome.
History shows that in Dunedin, Clients such as the DCC, University and some private clients keep a close eye on the state of the market. Many Ministry of Education projects have strict cost guidelines, and will not proceed if they are over budget.
There have been examples of work deferred in Dunedin when the market is busy, and the Post Office Hotel is one of them. At the present time, there is a high level of commercial construction activity at present, witnessed by the fact that there are main contractors from outside Dunedin performing the 2 largest projects in Dunedin The Dental School and the University Science 3 project. There is every likelihood some projects will be delayed due to the high level of activity.
The report assumes that The only way the cost could be anywhere near this level is if virtually all of the materials were low cost imports, and quite likely a proportion of the labour cost component.
The only significant material that will be made locally is concrete, and it is only the basement levels that will be predominantly a concrete structure.
If out of region companies were employed for work to do such trades as painting and carpentry, as they were at the Forsyth Barr stadium, then that figure will not be accurate. Having completed many projects out of Dunedin, I have first hand knowledge of the negligible economic effect of construction on the region concerned. Generally, goods and services are sourced from habitual suppliers with whom there is an ongoing relationship, and only the small consumables are sourced from local suppliers.
Mr Tosswill should clarify what the intention is regarding the construction of the hotel, and if that is not forthcoming, then he should at least confirm what type and form of construction contract will be used as that perhaps more than anything will determine whether there is the possibility of a meaningful local business component. Further facts about construction Examples of risk from imported products FCC Fletcher budgeted to use Chinese sourced bathrooms in the Novotel Christchurch projects.
Did not work. Chinese steel : there are 2 major CBD projects underway in Christchurch that are steel structures using Chinese fabricated steel. On one project the steel is 12 weeks late and on the other it is 16 weeks late. The Chinese suppliers had committed to make the steel, then out-sourced it to another firm without advising the contractor, and the delays have resulted.
On one of these projects there is now legal action between the Engineer and contractor because of the nature of the steel does not conform to the specification. There is a further major dispute litigation on another major project now completed due to extreme delays with the steelwork and external cladding.
The project was around 10 months late, and the Owner lost the anchor tenant The Government due to the delay. External Cladding : There are only a very small number of NZ firms with the capability to design and build the curtain walling, and they have a huge backlog and extremely onerous business terms that will not be acceptable to any funder or main contractor, so the Owner will probably need to contract with them direct, and take on this risk.
Yes, was the direct reply. Refer article: Traffic problems at hotel ODT 3. Not Based On Reality. Go ODT! Before voting closes! Dunedin ODT Online Thu, 3 Aug US company microchips workers A Wisconsin vending machine company is offering its employees a chance to have a microchip implanted in their hands that they could use to buy snacks, log in to computers or use the copy machine.
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