Share your feedback on ideas for Gisborne’s future

Published on 06 May 2019

You can now have your say on the next stage of the Gisborne Futures project, which will guide the growth and development of Gisborne over the next 30 years. It will look at how you will live, work and play in the town, and how you’ll get around.

Preservation of Gisborne’s rural village character, views to the Macedon Ranges, improvements to the road network and the need for stronger pedestrian and cycling links were among the themes raised by Gisborne and New Gisborne residents last year during the Council-led consultation as part of the Gisborne Futures project.

An Emerging Ideas Paper has been developed, and we’d like to know what you think. Your feedback will help develop a new Gisborne Structure Plan and the Gisborne Town Centre Urban Design Framework (UDF), which will be prepared simultaneously. The structure plan will give broad direction on development of the town and the urban design framework will provide a greater of level of detail on the look and feel of the town centre.

Council’s Director Planning and Development, Angela Hughes said Gisborne Futures was the first major new planning document developed for the town since the Gisborne Outline Development Plan (ODP) was adopted in 2009.

“Since that time the town has changed in terms of its land use and demographics,” Ms Hughes said. “So it’s time to review and update the existing structure plan to ensure it remains current and relevant.”

The revised plan will be a vision for how Gisborne will grow and develop into the future. We’ll look at transport options, how waterways are managed, what community facilities and infrastructure might be required, how you use your parks and open space, where you shop and where you live, and what your needs might be for all these things into the future. An updated Gisborne UDF will ensure that the future development of the town centre retains the existing village feel while providing an improved social and economic core, in accordance with place making principles.

Read the Emerging Ideas Paper, tell us what you think and let us know if your ideas and aspirations have been captured, or if there is anything that has been missed.

The consultation will run from 6 May until 3 June 2019.

For more information, see Share your feedback on ideas for Gisborne's future