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Northern Growth Management - Johnsonville Town Centre Plan

Overview

Johnsonville Town Centre

Johnsonville is the largest town centre in Wellington outside the central city and plays a key role in servicing the northern suburbs.

Wellington City Council has developed a town centre plan that includes significant changes to Johnsonville’s retail heart, improvements to its transport systems, and continues its residential growth.

It is estimated that from now until 2031, there will be 2,500 - 3,000 more people living in Johnsonville, 1,300 - 1,700 new dwellings and 3,500 new jobs.

The Johnsonville Town Centre Plan

The plan outlines a framework for the future development of Johnsonville. It sets out a long-term vision for Johnsonville (looking ahead 20 years) and identifies ways to manage change.

The plan’s focus is on future urban development and comprehensively links shops, businesses, housing, infrastructure, community facilities and public spaces.

Key Initiatives

The plan identifies a number of key goals for making Johnsonville into a more attractive and multifunctional town centre. They include:

Housing - facilitating greater housing choice and encouraging more people to live in and around the town centre
Mainstreet - further developing Johnsonville Road as the ‘mainstreet’
Design Quality - improving urban design and building a unique sense of place
Entertainment - widening the range of shops and encouraging new leisure and entertainment facilities including cafés and restaurants
Compactness - retaining a compact town centre and enhancing its walkability
Public Transport - making better use of existing public transport systems
Traffic - improving traffic management and reducing pressure from through traffic on Johnsonville Road
Community Facilities - improving the range and accessibility of community facilities
Public Space - facilitating the creation of a new public space in the town centre
More Jobs - widening the economic base to include a greater range of businesses and jobs.

The Process

Phase 1: Planning and initial public consultation (from July 2006)

An ‘Issues and Context Report’ was released for public consultation; 200 submissions were received, as well as comments from a survey of businesses in the town centre.

Issues and Context Report (987Kb PDF)
Summary of Submissions (414Kb PDF)
Land Use Survey of Johnsonville Town Centre Businesses (485Kb PDF)

Phase 2: Development of the Town Centre Plan (May 2007 - November 2008)

A draft town centre plan was prepared and released for public feedback in May 2007; 104 submissions were received.

After this consultation, further research and policy development was carried out on key issues, eg Centres Policy, the District Plan’s suburban centre and residential area provisions, urban design issues, traffic modelling, community facilities and urban character. This work influenced the approach and action items in the final JohnsonvilleTown Centre Plan.

Draft Johnsonville Town Centre Plan (1.85Mb PDF)
Summary of Consultation and Feedback (190Kb PDF)

The final Johnsonville Town Centre Plan was adopted by Council in November 2008.

Final Johnsonville Town Centre Plan (1.54Mb PDF)

Next Steps

The focus is now on carrying out the final plan, including getting funding for key actions, changing the relevant provisions of the District Plan, and working with stakeholders and the community to achieve the vision.

The prioritisation and funding of the plan's proposals will be worked out as part of the Long Term Council Community Plan (LTCCP) and annual planning processes.

More Information

Luke Troy
Manager City Planning

Phone:	(04) 803 8324
Email:	luke.troy