Draft Puketapu–Bell Block Spatial Plan

New Plymouth District Council seeks feedback on Whakaae Whenua, a draft spatial plan setting a 30-plus-year direction for growth, local centres, transport, housing, employment and the environment in Puketapu–Bell Block.

Coordinate future decisions through five goals covering natural areas, complementary local centres, safer movement, industry and jobs, and diverse housing with accessible community facilities.

Strengthen Bell Block Court as a civic heart, improve connections between neighbourhoods and employment areas, and support restoration of waterways and open spaces.

Guide later plans, investment and delivery partnerships. The spatial plan itself is non-statutory and does not change zoning, create rules or commit Council to funding specific projects.

Review the remaining mapped actions, supporting material and submission requirements before submitting feedback.

The detailed action tables, mapped boundaries, supporting technical report and complete form flow were not fully reviewed. Confirm site-specific implications before submitting feedback.

The summary and printable submission PDFs could not be retrieved because robots-policy retrieval returned HTTP 403. Their content remains unread; the separately published full draft does not verify the paper form’s detailed requirements.

Formal hearings, review of feedback and adoption are later stages. Their dates and event dates do not extend this submission deadline.

The plan would guide how growth, infrastructure and community needs are considered together over the next 30-plus years.

Delivery actions remain subject to later budgets, planning decisions and partnerships; this consultation does not itself approve every project shown.