Submission
9 year plan feedback
Should we remove 231 Stuart Street (formerly the Fortune Theatre) from the list of strategic assets in the DCC Significance and Engagement policy?
Do you have any comments about 231 Stuart Street?
Should we charge an entry fee of $20 (incl. GST) for international visitors aged 16 and over, at Toitū and Dunedin Public Art Gallery?
Do you have any comments about the entry fee for international visitors?
Is there anything else you would like to tell us?
Dunedin Tunnels Trail Trust (DTTT) thanks DCC for the positive work on starting tenders for the Wingatui tunnel access. We appreciate the financial restraint DCC is exhibiting.
That however is not a reason for this project to be shelved, but for the DCC to look at alternative ways to deliver it. That is why the Tunnels Trust formed, and it is time the DCC empower the community to partner it and help deliver the project albeit slightly differently.
It is already in the books for very good reasons - it supports the Integrated Transport Strategy, Carbon Zero aspirations, has been overwhelmingly supported by residents and their submissions over the last 20 years and it will bring economic and environment benefits well beyond the commuter benefits accounted for in the NZTA project as a cost benefit ratio of $4 for every $1 invested.
It should stay in the plan. The current funding should be carried over to the following year if needed and DCC should address some outstanding legal and service matters that only it can do and leave the rest to the community.
DTTT is working with Great Rides and other groups to collaborate and seek MBIE funding for a NZ Cycle Trail extension for the section between Wingatui and Green Island. Delivering a NZCT grade trail as a tourism product that will deliver some of the benefits that the NZTA scoped work planned, but at significant savings. We have initial costings and with improved design believe we can deliver a very safe off road connection that will not take one carpark away from the roading network but will deliver a basic trail consistent with other Otago trails.
The Trust submit that:
DCC allow DTTT and other collaborating groups to develop the trail to NZCT grade as an extension of Great Rides and directs staff to develop a MoU to enable that on the basis that the trail be developed as a Grade 1 trail with as broad access as possible including being disability accessible.
All work will provide a base layer for later upgrading when and if funding becomes available. Ie no regrets investment.
That DCC undertake to:
1/ prioritise landowner consents to allow for trail development to be completed by September 2025; and
2/ prioritise making Caversham tunnel available for trail development including directing Aurora and the gas company to making their pipe work safe for trail use. It has been wrong for the DCC to have allowed the lack of asset investment to impinge on citizens freedom to what was a legitimate transport asset.
3/ Retain the tunnels projects in the work programme with existing funding, with a further maintenance fund provided, delivery of stage 1 by June 2027; and
4/ improve water and wastewater services in Caversham Tunnel to be implemented in the first two years of 9 year plan to allow DTTT to begin fundraising for trail development as stage 2.
Local Water Done Well feedback
Which water services delivery model do you support?
Why did you choose this option?
Do you have any other feedback related to the proposed water services delivery models?
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Submitter
Submission id number: 1132650
Submitter name:
Brent Irving
Organisation
Dunedin Tunnels Trail Trust (DTTT) Chairperson