Chelsea Sugar Refinery Site (Source: Google Images)
In our Studio 222 'Making Plans' paper last year, we studied the Chelsea Sugar Refinery site.
One of the major assignments that we did was drafting a District Plan for the site that outlined alternative land uses in event that sugar refinery operations discontinued operating.
The Chelsea site is considered to be of regional and national significance because of the immense heritage and environmental values that it contains, and these need to be protected. Not to mention, the Chelsea brand is pracitically a Kiwi icon!
Due to the sites location on the Waitemata Harbour and within Auckland's metropolitan urban limit, it is a prime location for accommodating future growth which places the site's heritage and environment values in a vulnerable position.
Therefore, this requires strategic planning and policy to protect these values when planning for alternative land uses of this site.
The topic of my policy analysis for the site was based on the coastal environment. This is a very significant and relevant topic considering the site is located on the coastal edge which contains immense environmental values and will be in need of protection from any future development.
The assignment was my first taste of what a Policy Planner does and though I admit it was not an easy task, looking back on it, I've learned a lot for sure.
I've loaded the document onto google docs, so follow the link below and have a skim!
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AR6-FN7q5s89ZGNqbmdkdmdfM2ZxcDVyYmZy&hl=en
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