Chch Council calls for proposals to develop Turners and Growers block
3 June 2003
Christchurch City Council is asking developers for proposals to develop
the central city block of land known as the Turners and Growers site.
Bordered
by Tuam, Madras, Lichfield and Barbadoes streets, the land was
bought by the Council in April 2002. By working with private interests
to develop the area the Council aims to kick-start a wider revitalisation
and enhancement of the eastern side of the Central City.
The Council
is mainly seeking schemes to develop the whole 1.76ha site,
but says it will consider part-proposals. Ideas generated by
the Registrations of Interest call will be evaluated and the Council
will then decide which
parties it will ask for firm proposals and may encourage potential
developers to work together on a solution.
Providing more green space
in this part of the Central City is another of the Council’s aims,
and prospective developers will need to include in their plans
at least 5000 square metres of open public space. The Council
also wants to encourage greater vitality in the area by increasing
the numbers of people who live there. To help do this, it is asking
that developers
provide a range of housing types, including those suitable for
students.
The project timings are for Registrations of Interest to be
in by midday on 9 July and for the evaluation and short-listing
to be done by around
the end of September. Requests for proposals will be sent out in
October and the short-listed developers will have until the end
of the year to provide
the Council with their detailed schemes. It is expected that evaluation
of those will be completed by February next year.
At present the
site is zoned Business 3 in the city’s proposed
plan. Public consultation about changing that zoning to allow
the development has been done and it is expected that Council
approval and public notification of a zoning variation will happen
this month, with the variation being adopted by year’s
end.
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