The development potential of this site within the Airport Oaks business park had been significantly eroded since the client’s purchase of the land by the re-zoning of the adjoining land to public open space (additional controls apply to sites adjoining public open space). Civitas needed to reclaim the land that this re-zoning had effectively sterilised from development...
Christ the King School and church needed to be completely redeveloped in order to make way for the extension of State Highway 20 through to Waterview. Civitas was engaged to assist the Diocese with the Public Works Act process, re-zoning of the replacement land and resource consenting for the redevelopment of the site...
The architect’s brief was to create a small informal chapel for quiet reflection, a classroom for religious education, and support facilities for the operation of the chapel and the community programmes run under the auspices of the Chaplain, in a manner that would respect the sensitivity of the location...
The St Kentigern pre-school was a relatively complicated project for its size as it extended across multiple land parcels with different zonings and impacted on previously approved but only partially implemented resource consents for which there was incomplete information...
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