Background Reports
- Report #1 – Issues Papers
- Report #2 – Options
- Report #3 – Assessment Criteria
- Report #4 – Options Assessment
- Report #5 – Technical Report on Options Assessment
- Report #6 – UDS Forum, Terms of Reference
- Report #7 – Options Consultation Report
Throughout the past year, a team of staff drawn from the participating councils and Transit New Zealand, assisted by specialist consultants has been researching trends and developing options for managing future growth in the Greater Christchurch area.
This team prepared a series of backgrounds documents that enabled the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy Forum to decide upon the 4 options taken out for public consultation.
These reports are available on this website as PDF files. You will require the free Adobe reader to view them.
Report #1 – Issues Papers
The Issues Papers identify key issues and trends for Greater Christchurch across nine topic areas being:
Residential, Rural, Commercial, Industrial, Infrastructure, Transport and Energy, Community Facilities, Natural Environment and Open Space. This material is the basis for the Introduction to Issues booklet [PDF 950KB].
Download Report #1
[PDF 130KB]
Report #2 – Options
This report outlines 3 options for managing future growth in the Greater Christchurch area. The 3 options are: Concentration (now referred to as Option A), Consolidation (Option B) and Dispersal (Option C). This was used as the basis for the So many options booklet [PDF 2MB].
Download Report #2
[PDF 153KB]
Report #3 – Assessment Criteria
The Forum agreed to a set of 18 criteria by which the 3 options could be assessed. Each of the criteria had examples of indicators prepared to enable the options to be evaluated against the criteria.
Download Report #3
[PDF 48KB]
Report #4 – Options Assessment
The 3 options (Concentration, Consolidation and Dispersal) along with a Business as Usual Option (e.g. continue current trends) are assessed against the Assessment Criteria, and compared against each other.
Download Report #4
[PDF 1.2MB]
Report #5 – Technical Report on Options Assessment
This report contains detailed assessments for all 18 criteria and a range of indicators, providing an in-depth technical analysis of all 4 options. Material from this report was used in the So many options booklet [PDF 2MB]
Download Report #5
[PDF 809KB]
Report #6 – UDS Forum, Terms of Reference
This document outlines the purpose, scope, structure and process for progressing the Urban Development Strategy.
Download Report #6
[PDF 467KB]
Report #7 – Options Consultation Report
This report contains key findings from the consultation into Options for managing future growth and development, including support for each Option; responses to each question asked in the feedback form; a breakdown of respondents by age, gender, ethnic origin and home location; summaries of comments made about key issues and recommendations of values and principles to inform the draft Strategy.
