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Update on Plan Change 20

23 January 2026

  • The Council agreed on 10 September 2025 to apply to the Minister for a ‘Plan Stop’ exemption for ‘a combined plan change comprising rezoning elements of each of the following plan changes to support housing and/or economic growth: Proposed Plan Change 20 and/ Proposed Plan Change on Rezoning’.
  • The Council agreed on 3 December 2025 for this combined plan change to also ‘include provisions to manage activities within the industrial-residential interface in the PC20 Plan Stop exemption application’.
  • Council planning staff have been preparing the ‘Plan Stop’ exemption application, including progressing some of the evidence basis, continuing to work on the provisions, and considering possible additional rezonings which may be included in PC20.
  • Council is considering potential rezonings as part of Draft PC20. Through our early engagement in February-March 2025, we received requests to rezone industrial properties to another zone (such as residential, commercial or commercial mixed use). In considering the appropriateness of these requests, Council staff have considered whether adjoining or nearby properties might also be evaluated for an alternative zoning. There is also an opportunity to consider rezoning some Heavy Industrial properties to Industrial General so that there is a buffer between residential areas and industrial activities with potentially significant adverse effects. In addition, there are instances where current zoning does not reflect the way the property is being used. We are seeking feedback from owners of specific properties identified as having potential to rezone, in February 2026.
  • The scope of PC20 has been revised to combine with a proposed rezoning plan change. These sites include, for example, split zoning tidy-ups and legal roads/transport zone corrections. Other sites included in this plan change include those that have been submitted to the Council as rezoning requests, parks notices, council disposals, where resolved, and other specific site requests.