Attachment 1

Wainuiomata Development Plan - 2015/16 results

 

2015/16 Action Plan Summary

Actions are summarised from the action plans on
pages 55-58 of the Wainuiomata Development Plan.

Full dev plan ref

ACTION

BUDGET

TARGETS

 

BY DEC 2015

BY JUNE 2016

  COUNCIL OFFICER COMMENT

 

ACTIVITIES, USES AND SOCIABILITY

 

 

 

A

· Appoint a development plan project manager

· Seek input from urban design and placemaking specialists when scoping further work & strategies

$50,000

· Establish a Trust or Inc. Soc entity to employ

· Recruit Project manager

· Consider Sportsville feasibility study outcomes within the town centre development plan

· First projects underway

·    “Make Stuff Happen Champion” contractor started in April. Delay to find the right person has impacted on achieving others targets in this plan.

·    Love Wainuiomata Incorporated June 2016.

·    Ongoing engagement with Sportsville.

·    Working groups set up for Town Centre, Hilltop, Welcome Sign.

·    Full living plan to be updated/structured based on vision outcomes instead of place-making headings

·    Further work to define town centre vision informed via engagement with 7 Day makeover. New summary to be produced.

B

· Undertake placemaking activities

$30,000

· First event held

· Regular events underway and momentum gaining.

·    Hosted place-making expert David Engwicht in May 2016.

·    7 day makeover planned for September.

·    August info night attracted 115 people.

C

· Work with local business, property owners, schools and community to leverage placemaking activities

Nil.

· Develop projects with local school talent

· Positive participation in placemaking events

·    Need to ensure businesses engaged in 7 day makeover.

·    Town Centre working group formed including several Queen Street businesses and mall operations staff.

L

· Work with local businesses and providers to ‘package up’ Wainuiomata experiences and encourage visitors to stay longer and spend more.

$3,000

· Gather benchmark data: eg. marketview

· Operator network event held.

· Operator group set up

· New cross-sell / upsell collateral in-market

·    Destination Wainuiomata initial collateral nearly complete for late Spring launch

·    First meeting held of Destination Wainuiomata group with operators eager to collaborate.

N

· Hold regular meetings with local community groups

Nil.

· Next meeting held

· Meetings are regular, well attended and seen as useful

·    Regular connected neighbourhood meetings bearing fruit for wider community initiatives such as RuralFest and event coordination between groups.

O

· Leverage the Development Wainuiomata networking group to develop local business awareness and collaboration

Nil.

· Event held

· Development Wainuiomata have visible key role in delivering this plan

·    Development Wainuiomata connection made.

 

ACCESS AND LINKAGES

 

 

 

·   

A

· Utilise the project manager to develop a walking and cycling strategy and first projects

Nil.

· Nil.

· Project and strategy scoped

·    Nil.

B

· Create a gateway working group to develop opportunities to make the hill fun and leverage council’s infrastructure investment

$10,000

· First smaller scale project underway.

· Larger scale project scoped.

·    Group formed. Leaderboard up and well used. Welcome sign concept design after suburb-wide competition, funding secured from HCC and working group collaborating for install after deciding on timber sourcing.

C

· Create walking, cycling placemaking activities

Nil.

· As per “B” above

· As per “B” above

·    Nil.

 

COMFORT AND IMAGE

 

 

 

·   

A

· Develop a project plan around visual image of town centre

$4,000

· Nil.

· Initial plan scoped and first project delivered.

·    Will be part of 7 Day Makeover efforts.

B

· Develop a communications plan to promote positive change in Wainuiomata

$3,000

· Our community is up to date via our website, newsletter, blog and Facebook

 

· Plan developed and implemented

 

·    Actively seeking to secure wainuiomata.co.nz as high ranking google result to be refreshed as a success stories, news and directory.

·    Regular and up to date content on wainuiomata.org and Facebook page

·    Need to re-engage with Real Estate sector to support and enhance attraction strategy to showcase Wainuiomata lifestyle benefits.