community formation in medium-density auckland...
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Community formation in medium-density Auckland developments
Karen Witten, Robin Kearns , Eddie Dolan, Emma Fergusson
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Hobsonville Point
Photograph by Skylens
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Marketed as an affordable housing estate - 424 dwellings Stage 1 houses presold on 10% deposits Delays - receivership 2014 & 2015 - contracts cancelled
Spring Park - Mt Wellington
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Powell St, Avondale
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Waimahia Inlet Turing Building
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a point of departure…
• walkable neighbourhoods encourage social interaction • community amenities are important sites of connection and belonging • informal spaces can encourage people to gather and interact • sites of connection and belonging differ for people of different ages and
ethnic groups • place-based social connections are particularly important for people who
spend more time in the neighbourhood
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Hobsonville Point
Photograph by Skylens
Hobsonville Land Company Approx 4000 homes
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Hobsonville Point: up front placemaking ‘to build a strong, vibrant community…..’
• amenity provision - café, farmer’s market, playground • on site primary and secondary schools • pedestrian friendly streetscapes, cycleways, public art, neighbourhood pocket parks as
well as larger open spaces • leveraging outcomes -‘We don't ever just sell land with no strings attached so we
are quite controlling in this [place shaping role]’
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Hobsonville Point: up front placemaking ‘to build a strong, vibrant community…..’
• embedding local history within the development • establishing a residents’ association and supporting neighbourhood events • active facebook page
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positive sense of community
‘…our board are pretty adamant that the community development stuff that we’re doing will result in higher land values…there is commercial sense in it’(HLC)
Other than tensions between ‘community’ as a marketing message to sell houses and an experience of connection among residents ‘.. as we[the resident’s committee] find our feet, take over and take on things….more than the land company running stuff, the feel will go from an event that sells properties to events that just support community’ (resident)
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Waimahia Inlet
Tamaki Makaurau Community Housing Ltd 295 homes - 30% private sale and 70% assisted home ownership or affordable rentals
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Waimahia Inlet
Master planned to encourage social interaction
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Waimahia Inlet
small private yards and generous public open spaces
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Waimahia Inlet
residents association events to bring community together in public spaces active facebook page
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Waimahia Inlet
Community formation between: • consortium partners • community housing providers and the people they are partnering with in
home ownership and as landlords • incoming residents
Early days for community formation - track longer term outcomes
acknowledgements: developers and residents of Waimahia Inlet, Hobsonville Point, Powell St, Turing apartments