Call us today The apartment building involved a number of infringements including building height. This site was zoned Mixed Housing Urban and the completed apartment building features a number of innovative sustainability features including solar heating and water harvesting.
The design of the home needed to be sensitive to its location as the site was contained within an Outstanding Natural Landscape.
Working closely with architects Monk Mackenzie, we obtained notified resource consent with specific consent for a substantial height infringement, in line with the design for the elegant, multi-level apartment property.
The consented scheme was for the construction of eight three-bedroom dwellings, arranged within two terraced blocks. Each dwelling included three storeys, with ground floor car parking and living and bedrooms above.
One of our main challenges was addressing the issue of the steeply sloping ground down to the road.
The proposal was an excellent example of high-quality residential intensification. The scheme responds well to the street and results in an obvious uplift of intensity at the site, while providing for all the necessary amenities of modern day living.
These developments provide higher density State, affordable and open market housing within the Tāmaki North development area, including a mixture of freestanding, duplex and terraced typologies.
Each site offers high quality homes in Glen Innes with a range of housing choices within a mixed tenure model, with the Wai O Taiki Bay sites providing more luxury homes available on the open market. Each of the new homes is designed to provide a safe home environment for residents with opportunities for community engagement with the homes being close to, overlooking and opening up towards street and public reserve frontages.
In 2019, Creating Communities won an Excellence Award at the Property Industry awards for delivering high quality multi-unit residential housing in Glen Innes and Wai O Taiki Bay.
The development provided a total of 102 homes, on-site parking, bicycle storage and a common ‘village green’ shared space within the site for the use and enjoyment of residents, in addition to the abundance of park and reserve areas being established throughout Northcote.
The development was comprehensively reviewed through Auckland Council’s ‘Urban Design Panel’ and provides an example of considered site planning that is responsive to its surrounding context, while achieving a density of living that ensures a high level of amenity and enjoyment for residents.