Urban design panel to give expert advice
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The Nelson and Tasman councils have formed a panel to spearhead better urban design.
The panel is made up of a group of qualified professionals including its chairman, Wellington architect and urban designer Graeme McIndoe, who has chaired the Wellington Waterfront Technical Advisory Group for several years, and is a member of the Auckland waterfront advisory group.
The remaining 10 members of the panel include Christchurch architect and convenor of the city's urban design panel David Sheppard, Wellington architect Ian Athfield, Christchurch landscape architect and member of the city's urban design panel Grant Edge, Nelson architects Ian Jack, John Tocker, and David Wallace, Nelson landscape architect Liz Kidson, Nelson planner Jackie McNae, Mapua urban design and landscape architect Robin Simpson and Wellington planner Jane Black.
The panel will provide free independent design reviews for projects from private developers and the councils.
City council environmental policy manager Martin Workman said that improving urban design was a priority for the councils and both were signatories to the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol.
Mr Workman said the panel would not be able to decide on resource consent applications, but it could provide advice and clear recommendations on the design of a proposal, and how it might be improved well before a resource consent application was made.
The panel's first meeting is scheduled for December 1, and one of its initial projects is the new medical centre proposed for Collingwood St.
Nelson Mayor Kerry Marshall said it was important that the region's developed environment was good enough to match the natural beauty of the region.
Tasman Mayor Richard Kempthorne welcomed the opportunity for reviews.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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Finally! Maybe this will avoid the design debacles of the past such as the Orange apartments constructed on Nile Street. Maybe the design panel can try to figure out how to ameliorate some of the past mistakes as well.
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Let's hope they'll be looking at exisitng structures as well as new builds. The council office on Trafalgar street is possibly the ugliest building on the South Island. A true blight on the landscape!