July 1, 2021
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The height and bulk of these buildings, right, angered Stanmore Bay residents and those objections have been taken into account in the latest design, above. Both perspectives are from Ozone Rd.
Public outcry heard by Coast apartment block developer The apartment blocks planned for a prominent site in Stanmore Bay have been substantially redesigned following community feedback. Over the years there have been a number of residential apartment designs proposed for the site, on the corner of Brightside Road and Ozone Road (behind Whangaparāoa New World) – first by developer Rick Martin and currently by former Conservative Party leader Colin Craig, director of Ozone Ltd, in his first foray into property development.
Ozone Ltd has owned the vacant 4012sqm site behind the supermarket since 2016. None of the designs found much favour with the community and nothing has happened on the site since Ozone Ltd’s plan for three six-storey blocks, incorporating 61 apartments, was made public by Hibiscus Matters in 2018. The size and bulk of that design caused a public outcry. The principal issue for the community,
also raised by Auckland Council planners, was that the proposed blocks were totally out of scale with neighbouring low-rise residential homes. Despite this, the plans were granted resource consent by Council, without public notification, as the site had Special Housing Area status. (Special Housing Areas, put in place by Council to fast-track development, have since been disestablished.) However, Craig says he heard the
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