Involvement at Ruakura continues across all our core disciplines as the development progresses.
Ruakura Superhub is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest integrated commercial developments, equivalent to the size of Auckland’s CBD. Located at the nexus of the golden triangle between Auckland, Waikato and Tauranga, the Superhub is anchored by a 30ha inland port and will include a 167ha logistics and industrial park, 5ha retail and service centre, 50ha green space network of swales, wetlands and reserves, and approximately 3,000 residential homes.
Boffa Miskell has been assisting Tainui Group Holdings (TGH), Waikato Tainui’s commercial arm, at Ruakura since 2007. At this time, we helped facilitate a charette to define a master planning methodology and strategic planning approach to rezone the land and establish a new planning framework to enable the vision. A significant body of master planning, commercial feasibility, and technical work ensued, ultimately leading to the lodgement of a private plan change request to rezone 389ha of land at Ruakura.
Boffa Miskell had a lead role in assisting TGH with initial scoping and feasibility assessments, development of the conceptual master and subsequent structure plans, and strategic planning advice. Our consultants led the preparation of the private plan change application and co-ordinated evidence from more than 20 expert witnesses, including statutory planning, landscape planning, ecology and urban design evidence by Boffa Miskell. Our team also played a central role in the Board of Inquiry hearing itself, presenting evidence to the Board of Inquiry throughout the intensive process across a range of our areas of expertise.
