Land use: Yet To Be Determined This application seeks Resource Consent from the Hamilton City Council for land use…

Yet To Be Determined This application seeks Resource Consent from the Hamilton City Council for land use consent to continue to operate a temporary car parking lot for a further two years at the property located at 62 London Street, CBD, Hamilton. The existing car parking lot on the site of the former St. Paul's Methodist Church and associated car park, has been operating as a temporary car parking lot since October 2019 (original consent 0.0.2019.00010305.001) whilst the long-term development plans for the site (and the adjacent car park in Victoria Street owned by the Hamilton Methodist Church Trust) are investigated. The reason for this application is to allow the Kirikiriroa/Hamilton Methodist Project Development Group, a governance group representing the Hamilton Methodist Parish and the Hamilton Methodist Church Trust, (the local Methodist property-owning and stewardship trust), more time to work on the detailed feasibility/business case for such a significant proposed $100 million redevelopment of the 6,000+ m2 property. We are very aware that the 'ground has shifted' in terms of the commercial reality of demand for retail and commercial office space in Hamilton's CBD, and we have to reassess our original ideas for a mixed development. We are all no less committed to trying to provide an affordable housing element on the site, but there is much to consider. We also have gain approvals at local, regional and national levels as well as find suitable funding partners.

Land use · Hamilton City · lodged 12 Sep 2024