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Wellington City Ridgelines Hilltops Overlay
Wellington City CouncilBoundary Ridgelines Hilltops, as used in the Wellington City District Plan. Contact district.plan@wcc.govt.nz for more informationCreated 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Wellington City Heritage Buildings
Wellington City CouncilHeritage Buildings, as used in the Wellington City District Plan. Contact district.plan@wcc.govt.nz for more information.Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
WCC Rubbish Bins
Wellington City CouncilThis dataset has no description
Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
WCC Shelters
Wellington City CouncilThis dataset has no description
Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Support Services Wellington City
Wellington City CouncilThis Support Services Wellington layer includes essential services like volunteer groups, social services and food banks with full contact details given for each organisation. This layer has been created originally in response to Covid-19 and as of Level 1 is no longer being updated.Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
CCSV Neighbourhoods Areas
Wellington City Council<pre class="wrap">Neighbourhoods support the day-to-day living needs of residents by providing quality local living, working and/or recreational environments. This includes:- a mix of uses, and building forms and density that encourage social and economic diversity-providing open spaces that are useable, attractive and respond to the city’s...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Central City Changes
Wellington City CouncilThe Central City consists of a compact urban core that contains a wide mix of uses that reflect Wellington’s role as our capital city. These include government, retail, education, entertainment, tourism and residential activities. Further residential development is encouraged given the contribution it makes to the overall vitality of the area, reducing...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Centres Business Areas
Wellington City CouncilBusiness areas 1 and 2, Central city zone & District Plan centres. -The commercial and government sectors are the primary drivers of business demand in the city.-The city is projected to require an additional 787,277 sq meters of business floor area over the period 2017 – 2047.-Wellington City has a number of business areas that cater for a range of...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
CCSV Anchors
Wellington City CouncilThe spatial vision map/diagram shows a number of goals for the central city area. The anchors represent areas of resilience are planned to be self-supporting places post events like earthquakes - they may be existing places, like civic square, that are already undergoing redevelopment planning, or new places. There are currently 8 central city anchors:...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Character Precincts
Wellington City CouncilCharacter has been defined and confirmed by WCC as ‘a concentration of common, consistent natural and physical features and characteristics that collectively combine to establish the local distinctiveness and identity of an area, and that contribute to a unique ‘sense of place’ when viewed by the public at large from the street or other public spaces....Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Community Amenity Access
Wellington City CouncilAccessibility heatmap of community facilities around DP centre zones 400m buffer used around all centres - 5 minute catchments generated around facilities - Central City facilities removed Cultural: Theatres Studios Music Venues Museums Galleries Community Centres Halls Cinemas Art Schools Art Groups Libraries Safety: WREMO Community Emergency Fire...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Community Infrastructure
Wellington City CouncilKey community infrastructure locations in the Adopted Spatial Plan: community centres, schools, and libraries. For more information contact the Planning for Growth team: planningforgrowth@wcc.govt.nzCreated 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Sites Of Significance To Maori
Wellington City CouncilThe District Plan provides an opportunity to acknowledge the sites of importance to tangata whenua and to allow for new developments to respect their significance. Precincts, sites, features and tracks of significance to the tangata whenua have also been identified. These are classified into different types and management techniques. Part of the criteria...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
HBA Projected Housing Deficit
Wellington City CouncilWe want Wellington to be a city where we have healthy, affordable homes in connected and lively neighbourhoods, close to the places we live, work and play. It is important that we provide for a variety of housing type, so that everyone has an opportunity to own or rent a quality home in the city. Since 2000 population growth in Wellington has outstripped...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Public Open Spaces
Wellington City CouncilWe want our future population to have access to quality open space in the right locations - private, shared or a combination. This will be particularly important where higher density apartment or townhouse development is anticipated. Although the city already benefits from an extensive green network of parks, reserves and play spaces, we will also need to...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Housing Density Typologies
Wellington City CouncilThe Spatial Plan is a ‘blueprint’ for our city that sets out a plan of action for where and how we should grow and develop. It provides the direction needed for the District Plan Review and will ultimately replace the Wellington Urban Growth Plan 2015. This layer defines the housing density typologies classifications contained in the final Spatial Plan....Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Opportunity Sites
Wellington City CouncilEach of the boundaries for these areas has been identified in the Spatial Plan as being an opportunity Site. Areas are at differing stages of planning, engagement, and development. For the purposes of the Spatial Plan, these areas are split into ‘In progress’ and ‘Future focus’. Lincolnshire Farm: Anticipated future urban area comprising residential and...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Indicative Development Cost Hazard Areas
Wellington City CouncilWe want Wellington to be a City that is prepared for shocks and natural hazard events, with new communities built in less vulnerable locations, new buildings that are safe and built with risk in mind, and more places/spaces available to enable communities to come together and support one another. Wellington is subject to a number of natural hazard risks,...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
NPS-UD Policy3c Areas
Wellington City CouncilThe National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) 2020 requires Councils to provide sufficient development capacity to meet projected growth requirements in their area over the short (3 years), medium (10 years), and long term (30 years). Under the policy we are not only required to zone sufficient land to provide for growth, but to also test...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025 -
Natural Open Spaces
Wellington City CouncilWellington’s natural environment is unique, with much of the city’s distinctive identity, its ‘sense of place’, reflected in its open space and natural areas. The City has an extensive network of open space and natural areas embedded within the city structure and Inner Town Belt, running out through the suburbs to the Outer Green Belt and beyond into our...Created 11 September 2022 • Updated 23 April 2025