2. Integrate land use and transport to underpin higher density living in urban areas

Our Key Principles are:

The design and delivery of a transport network that supports our growth objectives including improving:

• sustainability,
• resilience,
• neighbourhood cohesion and character,
• housing choice.

And to encourage higher-density development and intensification in areas close to key transit corridors that can support alternative modes

What will we do?

• Consider transport implications of housing intensification and ensure planned transport infrastructure supports this
• Collaborate with developers to achieve sustainable mobility outcomes and intensification in town centres and existing residential areas that are close to multi-modal transit corridors.
• Continue to collaborate with Greater Christchurch Partnership to ensure alignment and understanding of wider growth patterns and transport planning.
• Require plans for parking management as part of urban area intensification and collaborate with developers to provide for travel demand management and multimodal facilities.
• Support greenfield expansion where the development will improve transport outcomes or is enabled by good multi-modal transport linkages.
• Develop an intensification plan to influence future intensification in appropriate places that enable a broad spectrum of sustainable transport options to be used.
• Better integrate retirement villages into the urban environment to reduce social isolation.