New subdivision application for New Chum Beach.
New subdivision application for New Chum Beach.
A new application to subdivide land at New Chum Beach (Wainuiototo Bay Whangapoua) has just been lodged with our Council.
The new application has been made by Ross and Deidre Mear and is for the exact same piece of land on which a previous application was lodged in January 2014 by Coastal Land Trust Holdings. The application by Coastal Land Trust Holdings, which is a separate identity, is currently on hold due to further information being sought from the applicant. It has been made aware that a new application has been lodged.
The latest application by Ross and Deidre Mear is for a four lot subdivision, all 15 hectares in size, together with a fifth "beach conservation lot," 1.2hectares in size. The beach lot is proposed as a conservation area allowing for public access along the beach.
It's also proposed that a Charitable Trust known as the "Wainuiototo Beach Conservation Trust" be formed, to own and manage this beach lot. The application says that the Trust would be made up of two representatives of the owners of Lot 1 -4 and three Community representatives drawn from our Council, WRC, DOC and local iwi.
The four proposed residential lots allows for 4 house sites (up to 236m2 each with garages) and 5 accessory buildings up to 100m2. Vehicle access to the proposed new residential lots would be through the existing farm track running from Te Punga Station. The remaining land (approximately 55ha) would be retired from active farming and established with either existing indigenous vegetation or allowed to regenerate naturally. There would be some areas where landscape planting would be introduced to screen building sites and vehicle access ways from off-site public viewpoints.
"Due to the significant public interest in this land we want to see this application go out for formal public notification," says Mayor Glenn Leach. "My understanding is that the applicants are very much in favour of this too."
"Our stance continues to be protecting and preserving third party interests," says the Mayor. "We want New Chum to continue to be somewhere anyone can visit, while still protecting its special and unique character."
"We've had no discussions with the new applicant about the formation of a Trust," says the Mayor. "What I'd like to see though is a natural buffer zone between the development and the beach, running the full length of the beach, along with the establishment of some public toilets and a walkway in the vicinity."
The applicant has requested that the application be publicly notified and this will likely occur before the end of the year.
To read the latest application for a subdivision at New Chum Beach click here.
Timeline of Events.
Oct 2014 - Ross and Deidre Mear submit a new
application to subdivide New Chum Wainuiototo Bay
Whangapoua.
Jan 2014 - Coastal Land Trust Holdings puts
its latest application on hold.
Dec 2013 - Coastal Land
Trust Holdings submits a modified resource consent. This is
for the creation of three lots and one conservation lot,
along with a boundary relocation. The application is also
for a house on each of three lots.
Aug/Sept 2012 -
Coastal Land Trust Holdings withdraws its amended
application.
Early 2012 - Coastal Land Trust Holdings
submits an amended application reduced to 12 lots consisting
of 2 large rural lots and 10 rural residential lots ranging
in size from 1500m2 to 126ha. The eight sites removed from
the application sat within the Wainuiototo (New Chum)
catchment. The 12 sites being proposed (for the construction
of 11 additional dwellings) are on Te Pungapunga Station, Te
Punga Road (Quarry Road). This is within the Whangapoua
drainage catchment.
2010 - In 2010 developers, Coastal
Land Trust Holdings applies for consent to allow the land
behind New Chum beach to be subdivided into 21 sections
which includes 20 residential rural lots ranging in size
from 1,520m2 to
23,043m2.
ends