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Notices of Requirement Overview document prepared by

Beca 2012 (unless Beca has expressly agreed otherwise with the Client in writing).

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Prepared by Fiona Blight Technical Director Planning Beca

Reviewed by Bryce Julyan Technical Director Planning Beca

Approved for release (Beca) Bryce Julyan Technical Director Planning Beca

Legal Counsel for Auckland Transport Bell Gully

Auckland Transport Work Stream Leader Notice ofRequirement Deborah Godinet

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 2

2 Suite of Documents for the CRL NoR........................................................................... 2

3 Auckland Transport .................................................................................................. 4

4 Auckland Transport Approach to Delivering the CRL .................................................... 4

5 The CRL Notices of Requirement ................................................................................ 7

6 Nature of the restrictions (Designation types) ........................................................... 11

7 Relationship between the Designation Types ............................................................ 11

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Figure 1 Relationship of NoR documents

Figure 2 City Rail Link Project Delivery Overview

Figure 3 Notices of Requirement Overview Map

Figure 4 Visual Explanation of the designation Types


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1 Introduction

This document provides an overview of the approach to deliver the City Rail Link (CRL) and the

documentation associated with the Notices of Requirement (NoR), served by Auckland Transport

(AT) pursuant to s168(2) of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), to designate for the

construction, operation and maintenance of the CRL.

The CRL project (the project) comprises the construction, operation and maintenance of a 3.4km

underground passenger railway (including two tracks and three underground stations) running

between Britomart station and the North Auckland Line (NAL) in the vicinity of the existing Mount

Eden station, and an additional 850m of track modifications within and adjacent to the NAL.

For ease of reference the three stations included in the NoR for the CRL have been temporarily

named Aotea Station, Karangahape Station, and Newton Station. The stations will be

formally named in the future. A fuller description of the CRL is provided in the Assessment of

Environmental Effects (AEE) which supports the NoR and the CRL Concept Design Report1.

2 Suite of Documents for the CRL NoR

The NoR for the CRL are supported by a suite of documents including this Overview. Table 1

provides the content of each Volume in the CRL NoR suite of documents and Figure 1 shows the

relationship of these documents to one another.

T bl 1 C t t f CRL N R it f d t


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Appendix 6: Cultural Values Summary

Appendix 7: The full statutory and non-statutory document Assessment

Volume 3

Technical Reports

Appendix 1: 2012 Environmental Management Framework

Appendix 2: 2012 Noise and Vibration Assessment

Appendix 3: 2012 Archaeology Assessment

Appendix 4: 2012 Built Heritage Assessment

Appendix 5: 2012 Integrated Transport Assessment

Appendix 6: 2012 Contaminated Land Assessment

Appendix 7: 2012 Air Quality Assessment

Appendix 8: 2012 Trees Assessment

Appendix 9: 2012 Urban Design Framework

Appendix 10: 2012 Structural Engineer Report

Appendix 11: 2010 Option Evaluation Report

Appendix 12: 2012 Option Evaluation Report

Appendix 13: 2012 Concept Design Report including relevant plans

Figure 1: Relationship of NoR documents


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3 Auckland Transport

AT is delivering the CRL project. AT is a council-controlled organisation of Auckland Council

responsible for managing and controlling Auckland's transport system under the Local

Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Act 2009 (LG(AC)A). ATs purpose as set out in

section 39 of the Local Government Auckland Council Amendment Act 2009 is "to contribute to an

effective and efficient land transport system to support Auckland's social, economic,

environmental, and cultural well-being". Sections 45 and 46 outline ATs functions and powers in

respect of the Auckland land transport system and ATs role as the Road Controlling Authority. Inaddition, AT is responsible for preparing the Regional Land Transport Programme for Auckland in

accordance with the Land Transport Management Act 2003.

AT is also a Requiring Authority (RA), as a network utility operator under Section 167 of the

Resource Management Act (RMA), in relation to the Auckland Transport System (see section 47(1)

of the LG(AC)A).

4 Auckland Transport Approach to Delivering the CRL

Figure 2 shows the anticipated delivery approach for the CRL. The NoR to designate the CRL is part

of Phase 1 (the current phase). The serving of the NoR to designate land for the CRL project is the

first step in the statutory planning process for securing the necessary planning approvals required

to construct, operate and maintain the CRL. Designating the land in the relevant district plan

provides certainty to directly affected landowners and occupiers, those in proximity, and the

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Figure 2: City Rail Link Project Delivery Overview


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In summary the future stages of the CRL project are likely to move through the phases outlined in

Figure 2 above. The phases are anticipated to include the following activities:

Iterative engineering and architectural design stages (preliminary, detailed and

construction design) to refine the concept design;

Further site investigations;

On-going consultation with directly affected and affected in proximity landowners and thecommunity;

The preparation and lodging of a number of resource consents2 for those works not

covered under the CRL designation;

The preparation and provision to Auckland Council of a number of construction and

operational management plans (prepared under the Environmental Management

Framework which supports the NoR) to manage the anticipated environmental effectsduring construction and operation;

The preparation of an Outline Plan to be provided to Auckland Council, in accordance with

section 176(A) of the RMA; and

Compliance and monitoring as required by the conditions of the designation and resource

consents.

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enable the management of any adverse effects such that these are avoided, remedied and / or

mitigated throughout the project lifecycle. The EMF contains a hierarchy of documents andprovides for the transfer of information between CRL project phases. Under the EMF an

Environmental Management Plan (EMP), a Communications Plan, and a Construction

Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) will be developed in the future to manage and mitigate

the adverse environmental effects created by the project. Further information on these can be

found in the EMF contained in Appendix 1, Volume 3 of the CRL NoR suite of documents.

Sitting within the EMF is the Urban Design Framework (UDF). The UDF provides a consistent and

integrated approach to achieving good urban design outcomes. The UDF is an overarchingframework which contains principles and outcomes for the restoration of the public realm after

construction. The outcomes envisaged by the UDF will help mitigate actual and potential adverse

effects of the project, and address social and environmental matters including pedestrian

connectivity, amenity and place making. The purpose of the UDF is to set out the principles and

the desired outcomes to enable the development of good design and management of any adverse

effects such that these are avoided, remedied and / or mitigated throughout the project lifecycle.

An Outline Plan is the mechanism, provided within the RMA, which sets out detailed design andcompels Requiring Authorities to undertake work in accordance with the relevant designation. At a

future time, when construction of the CRL is to start, AT will prepare and submit an Outline Plan to

Auckland Council. Under the current provisions of section 176(A), an Outline Plan should cover the

following matters:

(a) The height, shape, and bulk of the public work, project, or work;

(b) The location on the site of the public work, project, or work;


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Figure 3: Notices of Requirement Overview Map

The map below is not to scale and is intended as a visual tool only to show the location of each

NoR. The Land Requirement Plans and the associated Schedule of Directly Affected Parties

(attached to each NoR) should be referred to for the actual area of land required.


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Table 2 Summary description of NoR

NoR

Number

Type of NoR Summary Description of NoR

1 Surface The land required for the construction, operation and maintenance of the CRL

including:

Two (2) x rail tunnels extending from Britomart Transport Centre to

Mayoral Drive. The tunnels cross Lower Queen Street, Queen Elizabeth II

Square, Downtown Shopping Centre, are located under Albert Streetwithin the road corridor;

Land (as listed in the bullet point above) and Galway Street and Tyler

Street are required to facilitate construction of the tunnels;

Aotea Station located under Albert Street between Victoria and

Wellesley Street; and

Construction site and ancillary activities

Ancillary activities associated with the operational rail network includingbut not limited to electrification and railway signalling.

2 Sub-strata The envelope of land required below the ground surface for the construction,

operation and maintenance of the CRL tunnels including:

Two (2) x sub-strata bored tunnels running from south of Aotea Station.

The tunnels are within the road reserve and pass under private land in

the vicinity of Mayoral Drive, Vincent Street, Pitt Street, Karangahape

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NoR

Number

Type of NoR Summary Description of NoR

including:

Two (2) x tunnels in the vicinity of Nikau, Shaddock, Ruru, Korari, and

Flower Streets in Newton;

The movement of NAL tracks and the placement of CRL tracks to

facilitate the CRL tracks rising out of the ground between the NAL tracks;

The main construction site area for the project including site offices,

delivery and lay down areas, storage of construction materials,

stockpiling of spoil, tunnel boring machine launch /assembly, and

electrical sub-station (located on land between Porters Avenue and

Ngahura Street in the west and Mt Eden Road in the east, and Nikau

Street in the north and the NAL to the south);

Grade separation of Normanby Road over the NAL and associated

construction works;

Replacement of the Mt Eden Road Bridge to facilitate the additional CRLtracks below and associated construction works;

Provision of a grade separated pedestrian bridge over the NAL and CRL

tracks in the vicinity of Ngahura Street;

Grade separation of Porters Avenue over the NAL and associated

construction works;

Ancillary activities associated with the operational rail network including


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6 Nature of the restrictions (Designation types)

Surface Designations

Surface (designation) means designation of the ground surface (including air space above and

land below to the centre of the earth).

Sub-Strata Designations

Sub-strata (designation) means designation of land starting below the strata designation to

the centre of the earth (provides for the rail tunnels).

Strata Protection Designations

Strata (designation) means designation of land layer starting 5 metres below the ground

surface and the sub-strata designation. This starts at a nominated distance below the surface

and extends down to meet the sub-strata designation (the tunnel envelope).

The strata protection designation does not authorise any CRL works within its footprint. The

intent of the strata protection designation is to provide a layer of protection above the sub-

strata designation (and the works it provides for) against any development occurring which

could hinder or prevent the CRL being constructed, or impact the structural integrity of the CRL

tunnels following construction. It is not intended to preclude owners undertaking developing

on their properties, but provides a mechanism which requires owners to talk to AT (as the


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Figure 4: Visual Explanation of the designation Types

Surface designations

Sub-strata Designations


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Strata Designation with Sub-strata Designation below


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Figure 5: Visual Explanation of the designations across the length of the CRL