LGOIMA Request Details: LG2380
Date received: 26/08/2025
Requested information: Breakdown of all costs associated with Plan Changes B & E, along with estimates of possible additional housing because of the changes
Status: Complete
Response:
LG 2380 - Breakdown of all costs associated with Plan Changes B & E, along with estimates of possible additional housing because of the changes
I refer to your official information request dated 26 August 2025. The information requested is below.
Plan Change B (General Residential) costs to date are $67,386 for a contracted planner and technical inputs from consultants, and an additional 0.10FTE over a period of 16 months from 1 May 2024.
Plan Change E (Feilding Town Centre) costs to date are 0.4FTE over a period of 14 months from 1 July 2024. Clause 3 engagement cost $277.42 to post information to affected and interested parties.
In addition to the above are the costs of notification under Schedule 1 of the Resource Management Act. Both Plan Changes were notified at the same time & we cannot separate the following amounts:
Clause 5 Public notices published in the Feilding-Rangitīkei Herald: combined cost $484.24.
Information mailed to affected and interested parties for Clause 5: combined cost $7,759.
In terms of additional housing capacity:
Plan Change E – we estimated additional capacity based on existing buildings and vacant land. Estimate is PC-E may have enabled up to:
150 units above existing shops based on existing upper floor space.
A minimum of 26 additional ground floor residential units based on vacant land in town centre.
Council has not estimated the total theoretical maximum development that PC-E could provide. The above estimates do not factor in complete redevelopment to the maximum enabled by the proposed new standards. For example, PC-E proposes to increase the current 2 storey building height limit to 4 storeys & greater provision for apartments
Plan Change B – No additional housing estimate has been completed. Plan Change B is a review of existing area. New rules enabling medium density development and minor dwellings were included but not modelled. Note the PC-B did not propose any new greenfield rezoning as this has already occurred in separate project.
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