Urban Design Action & Investment Plan

The Urban Design AIP helps to deliver good urban design outcomes in support of ‘Tauranga Tatai Whenua – A well planned city’, a primary strategy set out in Our Direction.   

Urban design outcomes are supported nationally and locally through a framework of strategies and policies, including Tauranga City Council’s Strategic Framework (Our Direction) within which this Urban Design Action and Investment Plan (UD AIP) sits. This UD AIP assists to achieve the Strategic Framework’s outcomes through high-quality urban design in Tauranga by focusing on the following key directives: 

• Design Leadership - Ārahi Hoahoa: providing design leadership through processes and projects (planning and investment) 
• Design Excellence - Toi Hoahoa: supporting and enabling high-quality urban design outcomes throughout Tauranga. 

Through these key directives, this AIP serves as a blueprint for supporting high quality urban design outcomes, assisted by a series of actions, aligned with best practice principles. The actions include estimated costs, responsible parties, and anticipated timeframes for delivery. While it will not be feasible for all actions to be delivered immediately, they represent priorities for Tauranga over the next decade - supporting short, medium, and long-term goals.