Panmure

Over the next decade, Eke Panuku expects the Panmure town centre to transition and grow from a low-density area with just 300 homes within a 10-minute walk of Panmure Station to over 2000 homes, and over 5000 residents. These new residents will bring new life and customers to Panmure, and new infrastructure, parks, open spaces and community facilities will also be required to support this future growth.

We’re leading this regeneration work on the behalf of Auckland Council and in partnership with the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board and mana whenua. Our role at Eke Panuku is to guide this next phase of investment, working in partnership with a wide range of public and private sector organisations, to bring success and prosperity to Panmure.

On 6 March 2018, a High-Level Project Plan was approved by Auckland Council’s Planning Committee, giving us the green light to progress our work in regenerating the area. The plan pinpoints the key actions that need to be taken, including making better use of properties the council owns.

The plan also covers:

• The context for revitalising the town centre.
• The key projects and stages of work required.
• The main players, and how we’ll continue working with the Panmure community.

Since the approval of the High-Level Project Plan, we have been working extensively with stakeholders and the community to develop the Panmure Masterplan.

The Masterplan looks to make the most of the neighbourhood’s cultural diversity and history, natural features, excellent location and improving transport connections, to make Panmure an even better place to live, shop, work, play and do business.

The Masterplan includes many exciting projects planned across three key precinct areas:

• Basin View Precinct
• Queens Road and Pilkington Precinct
• Maungerei and Station Precinct

The projects within these precincts will contribute to create a thriving town centre and making Panmure a location of choice for Aucklanders by delivering:

• New homes and commercial premises
• New public spaces and amenities
• Improving transport and community connections

The parts of Panmure up for regeneration cover 43 hectares, including the Queens Road mainstreet, the transport interchange and a commercial area to the west. Making better use of underused Auckland Council-owned land in the town centre will unlock development opportunities in Panmure, acting as a catalyst for further investment.

The Tāmaki Regeneration Company, the Crown (central government) and Auckland Transport also own other land parcels in the regeneration area. We’ll work closely with all these agencies to ensure the coordinated development of key sites.

This precinct aims to deliver the greatest strategic benefit to Panmure by opening Queens Road to a direct view and physical connection to the Panmure Basin.

This precinct will enable a variety of building typologies that support the sloping terrain and create good outlook onto public connections.

A string of community facilities is proposed to ensure connected civic activity amongst residential and mixed-use developments. This precinct connects a new town square on Queens Road through steps leading to the centre of the precinct and enabling a link towards a street crossing landing at an enhanced lagoon edge.

This precinct has a role of fostering and supporting mainstreet vitality by refreshing the Queens Road streetscape, creating an alluring and welcoming “front door” to Panmure through the new ‘Gateway’ site, and potentially facilitating a smaller supermarket on the corner of Jellicoe Road to create “steppingstone” of activity into the centre. 

Built form typologies should both support density, courtyard style amenity and clearly define public and private edges. This precinct should facilitate safe urban play space through the Clifton Court upgrade and enable connections via Pilkington Road to the north-east.

This precinct aims to provide a mix of residential and commercial activity around the Panmure Train and Bus Station. The benefits of this proximity to public transport helps to promote sustainable lifestyles, while catering for future population growth.

There will be large development sites to bring new people into the area. We will seek to miximise height in key areas and ensure low medium built form addressing the public edges. The precinct will also focus on protecting the views to Maungarei and enhancing the pedestrian and cycle connection to this key Panmure landscape feature.