Your Home in Kahwai Point

YOUR HOME AT KAWAHAI POINT

The aim of the Kahawai Point Development is to create a ‘coastal jewel’ in the Glenbrook region. To create high quality and diverse housing and public spaces. It is important that your home design reflects these coastal character elements:

  • A casual coastal atmosphere - design and select materials to reflect the natural coastal surroundings. Diversity of building form and materials will help to break up blank facades and avoid the creation of ‘soul less’ homes.
  • Coastal, seaside, marine setting - choose materials that weather well in a coastal setting. Natural colours to sit in the landscape, rather than bright, contrasting colours.
  • Welcoming and encouraging of social interaction - connect to the street with habitable spaces at the street side of the house and a visible front door.
  • A subtropical climate - use sunshade elements, verandahs, eaves and overhangs to protect from the summer sun but still allow in the winter sun. I.e. a home that is responsive to the natural environment.
  • A safe and family friendly place - no or low fencing in the front yard to help visibility and surveillance.
  • An established and unique streetscape - your home appears to ‘fit’ with those around it. Whilst each home is different there is a similar language of design which fits together.
  • Sloping topography - Use appropriate planting on sloping sites thus designing for views to the sea and outlook over coastal path. Designing your home to have changes in level may reduce earthworks and thus costs.
  • Cultural assessment – in keeping with Te Aranga design principles and Ngati Te Ata extensive native planting, particularly in the coastal zone and along wetland areas is encouraged. This will also ensure a connection to the coastal path in the coastal zone. Preserve natural landform where possible.

 

 

INDIVIDUAL LOT CHARACTERISTICS

Any new home is to be of a certian height and bulk, is to have sufficient setbacks and landscaped areas, and is to achieve the planned suburban built character of predominantly one to two storey dwellings within a generally spacious setting.

  1. Encourage development to achieve attractive and safe streets by:
    1. Providing for passive surveillance
    2. Optimising front yard landscaping
    3. Minimising visual dominance of garage doors.
  2. Require the height, bulk and location of development to maintain a reasonable level of sunlightaccess and privacy, and to minimise visual dominance effects to the adjoining sites.
  3. Encourage accommodation to have useable and accessible outdoor living space.
  4. Restrict the maximum impervious area on a site in order to manage the amount of stormwaterrunoff generated by a development and ensure
Your Home in Kahwai Point
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Vision & Purpose

Kahawai Point Vision – A ‘coastal jewel’

Our vision for Kawahai Point is to create a ‘coastal jewel’ by providing the Glenbrook area with diverse and quality public spaces and housing; to create a distinct physical and cultural identity whilst fitting in with the natural coastal setting.

 

Kahawai Point Development -
Overall Development Objectives

 

  • The development maintains and is in keeping with the amenity values of the proposed residential neighbourhood, including those based on special character informed by the coastal setting, topography and local climate.
  • The development is in keeping with the planned suburban built character of predominantly one to two storeys buildings.
  • The development provides quality on-site residential amenity for residents and for adjoining sites and the street.