Bureta residents have until the end of the month to lodge objections to the proposed new Countdown supermarket on the site of the Bureta Park Motor Inn.
Countdown owner Progressive Enterprises plans to build a 4000sqm supermarket and retail shopping development on the site after purchasing the land from The Brian Perry Charitable Trust last December.
An artist impression of the proposed Countdown supermarket in Bureta.
The application is to be processed on a limited notified basis, which a notice of application served on the affected people.
A map of the affected people in the area can be found on the Council's website. Only people served notice of the application can submit a proposal.
Tauranga City Council planner Brad Bellamy says the decision on notification was made using the framework set out under the Resource Management Act issue.
'The notification decision isn't a decision on whether the supermarket goes there or not, it is just a decision on how the application should be processed.”
Progressive Enterprises sought a limited notification under the Resource Management Act, which it can do under the law.
Because the application ticks the right legal boxes under the RMA, only the 200 or so people served notice by Council will be able to lodge formal objections – which have to be lodged with the city council by August 31.
The people able to lodge objections are Ngatai Road dwellings, Vale Street properties opposite and a group of residents in Bureta Road. A map of affected persons is included within the Planner's report on Council's website.
The application and all paperwork associated with the application is online on the city council website http://www.tauranga.govt.nz/news/notified-resource-consents/notified-applications/tabid/2013/aid/23629/tctl/4383_ViewAnnouncement/Default.aspx
The application is non-complying under the Operative Tauranga District Plan (TDP) and Proposed Tauranga City Plan (PCP).
The zoning is Residential A under the TDP; and Suburban Residential under the PCP.
In respect to the list of proposed activities, the proposed liquor store is the only activity provided for as a permitted activity.
26 comments
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Posted on 03-08-2012 16:28 | By charob
Now this is sad. destroying a natural bit of grassland and trees....... tauranga turning into CONCRETE city.
Ugly
Posted on 03-08-2012 17:01 | By WinstonW
Completely agree. How depressing. Yet another ugly Aussie-owned supermarket.
I remain hopeful
Posted on 03-08-2012 17:10 | By bigted
AS far as I am aware, the trees and park on the eastern end of this development will remain. A question mark is that some of the purchased land is may be sold as residential housing. As to the aspect and quality of this housing , this is not specified.
Probably better than having a big pub
Posted on 03-08-2012 18:37 | By Phailed
Supermarket would definitely make it easier for elderly residents in the area. Funny that the presumption is that residents will be against it. Oops, just remembered - this is Tauranga.
What!! more shops
Posted on 03-08-2012 19:17 | By Johnney
Resource management act. Does this mean if we are over resourced we will just allow more of the same. Let's all have a supermarket as the corner dairy. Progressive Enterprises will get their way so more profits can go to Australia.
Lenalulu
Posted on 03-08-2012 20:34 | By lenalulu
one thing we dont need in this town is another supermarket the ones that we do have are never at full stretch and opening another will only make this worse.There is only so many people in Tauranga.Why not upgrade the restaurant and a cafe and shops would be more welcome
Yay! That makes 13! Unlucky for some.
Posted on 04-08-2012 12:22 | By tazykat
So we really need another supermarket in Tauranga? And yet again another Progressive Market? That will take the tally of supermarkets in the area from Bethlehem to Papamoa to include Thirteen, eight of which will be Countdowns and the lone Woolworths in Bayfair which is Countdown in disguise. Surely something else could go in this area? Like a park or a museum or something...!
chooky
Posted on 04-08-2012 13:42 | By macsjoy
do not want heavy vehicles traveling along Grange road in the early hours of the morning.Speed humps & wieght restrictions need to be in place.I suppose the City council will see to this.Yeah Right
Rastus
Posted on 04-08-2012 13:55 | By rastus
You have all left your run a bit late - The time for action was when OUR trust was surreptitiously sold on to the Perry foundation - as technically being a shareholder, I was never asked if I wanted our Licensing trust board to make those sorts of decisions on my behalf - the whole thing still smells to me! - I welcome comment from anyone who knows just what went on behind very closed doors!
supermarket
Posted on 04-08-2012 15:20 | By Glen Clova
I am glad i dont live close by. I have friends who live close to major supermarket and the early morning noise from delivery trucks and forklift trucks is terrible.
kapa
Posted on 04-08-2012 15:45 | By kapa
Who needs another supermarket, let alone a Countdown one. More porofits for Australia
If only the community had supported the old trust hotel?
Posted on 04-08-2012 17:22 | By Phailed
Just thinking that if the community had supported the old days of the Trust hotel there, it would probably still have been profitable and not been sold. That's what usually happens if things don't pay their way. Interesting how people take things that have community benefit for granted until it's too late.
Traffic chaos...
Posted on 04-08-2012 17:22 | By penguin
Has anyone given thought to the resulting traffic chaos at the intersections adjacent to this area? Currently it is "seat of the pants" stuff exiting to Ngatai Road/Chapel St, Vale St, Bureta Rd? Maybe there will be another 'carnival of lights' like those controlling the Brookfield intersection. Very likely there will need to be multiple crashes and even a fatality or two to hammer home the point. I would like someone from the council to be bold enough to front up with a 'current plan” to mitigate this situation or will it be the usual wait and see what happens first? Might be nice to be proactive for once....!
supermarket
Posted on 04-08-2012 18:28 | By macsjoy
So where are the tossers from the city council on this?.I know.sitting on the fence.Some of these people(City councilors )born & breed here dont give a shitte why dont they speak up?
I don't get it
Posted on 05-08-2012 09:52 | By pwsun145
Having built a few years ago the nearby a shopping mall (Bay Central) without a supermarket was a bad call. A joke. (Oh by the way, there are still no signs pointing to customers toilets, but that's another story).So why not fix the lack and try to stretch the area to accomodate a supermarket like Countdown? Bureta Rd is a nice small centre for the neighborhood. Just got my fish & chips there yesterday and I saw lots of elderly peolpe buying there too. Hopefully there is a replacement for it. Traffic chaos - haha, like Brookfield RAB? Let's hope someone with common sense will do the job this time and not a highly paid pro from overseas. Please, review the intersection Vale St/ Chapel St!
Found out some facts
Posted on 05-08-2012 10:41 | By Phailed
I guess most of the commenters here would be furious if anyone tried to dictate every bit of use of their own properties, but they're happy to tell someone else what they can't do. Hypocrisy is an interesting phenomenon. Anyway, I think the property can either have commercial use or it can't. If it's commercial surely it can have a pub, bars, supermarket, shops or whatever??? The people who want it as a park can either buy it and gift it to the city or get council to buy it with ratepayers money. I would like to know where the profits from the sale are going though. I thought the ownership was tied up in some sort of trust where the profits went back to the community??? Maybe I'm wrong thinking that? Come on Perrys, time to tell the people of Tauranga about that.
VEHICLES
Posted on 05-08-2012 11:31 | By TERMITE
Once the thing is built then all that will happen is many a large vehicle will wander down the road in the wee hours, seven days a week, the more you shop there the more trucks will come through 24/7.
Valuable land
Posted on 05-08-2012 12:52 | By Michael-angelo
This piece of land so close to the harbour and recreational areas is a valuable focus of an entire community which extends way outside the consultation zone. The question is what does this complex offer to this community? Do the residents really need access to 30,000 grocery items when they are only 3km from the another industrial size supermarket? What do the other shops in the retail complex sell? Alcohol? Yeah right! The developers bought knowing that this use was non-compliant, so why will it go ahead regardless of how many people object?
Shake th tree and see what falls out
Posted on 09-08-2012 18:22 | By RORTSCAM
So who in TCC Council decided this was to be a limited notified RMA Application and why. This thing effects all Tauranga residents so let everyone have their say or at least those that want to lodge submissions. I can tell you TCC and Progressive wanted to slip it under the radar as non notified and you really have to ask serious questions right back to Perry's involvement with the site as what the hell is going on here.
RORTSCAM
Posted on 12-08-2012 14:19 | By TERMITE
Think again mate, rats don't live in trees!
LARGE DEVELOPMENT
Posted on 12-08-2012 14:23 | By TERMITE
Why should this slip under the radar, the interests of many are involved here, surely in the public interest this large scale and significiant project should be reveiwed and be able to include public imput and comment before it gets underway, there are many in teh community that are being excluded by what is in essence a very limited pool of the public that are being "ALLOWED" to comment, does not sound like democracy here. Perhaps the decision has already been made but one merely needs to wander through the process for appearances sake anyway.
HIDING IN TEH CLOSIT
Posted on 15-08-2012 12:51 | By YOGI
The best way to ensure that a RMA application is approved, just as the developer wants is to ensure that virtually all possible objectors are eliminated before they even get a chance to object in the first place. That is really what is hapopening here, with so few able to object makes it a certainty that it will happen as the handful of residents close by will not stand a chance to defend their freedoms and choices. It's our job to be fair ...
IT IS A SCAM
Posted on 17-08-2012 20:59 | By PLONKER
That the public at large are being deliberately excluded from the ability to be able to directly contribute to the RMA due process. One only needs to look at the obvious common sense added to the mix when you look at the RMA consent process for the Mount Hot Pools, the Tauranga ratepayers have saved a fortune from the efforts of a few.
LEGALISED CARNAGE
Posted on 28-08-2012 00:20 | By PLONKER
Let the 'games' begin ...
SMOKE AND MIIRRORS
Posted on 31-08-2012 00:01 | By PLONKER
Can't see the point of the RMA process, it will be a financial feast for the consultants and lawyers, after that nothing will be left to fight over and the applicaiton will sale through as "DESIRED" byt the developers, game-set-match ...
why have another one?
Posted on 27-01-2013 07:48 | By tigerella44
my sisters school always takes the juniors down there when its autmn and they have fun playing in the leaves why should be taking away from them also if they build countdown they are also destroying nature familys have picnics down there dont build another supermarket weve got plenty of them why have another one
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