WHAT IS PROPOSED FOR SHELLY BAY?
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The development proposed for Shelly Bay includes plans for a new neighbourhood, with 350 homes; a waterfront walkway; green space; parking and seating; cafes, bars and shops; a microbrewery and a 50-bed boutique hotel (1)

Residential development will comprise 280 apartments, 58 townhouses and 14 standalone homes. The front row of houses would be three- level townhouses and detached homes with front doors and gardens facing the road. Behind these, at the base of the steep hill, would be apartment buildings up to six storeys (2)

For more detail refer to the Developers ‘Shelly Bay Masterplan and Design Guide’ and can be found in full here

The Masterplan shows that the development includes 5 ‘types’ of buildings, and the resource consent application (pages 12- 15) describes the following proposed new and adaptive re-use of existing buildings:

Type 1: Apartment Buildings
  • 12 x apartment buildings up to 27 metres
Type 2: Town Houses
  • 12 x 12 metre or 15 metre Townhouse buildings
Type 3: Detached Houses
  • 14 stand alone houses, the majority located on Open Space B alongside the road carriageway at the Sourthern end of South Bay
  • 1 dwelling located on the coastal escarpment
Type 4: Aged Care facility
  • option for some apartments (type1) and townhouses (type 2) to be developed as a 140 bed aged care facillity
Type 5: Special Buildings
  • 1 x 50 room boutique hotel –a 27 metre addition to the relocated Officers Mess
  • 2 x 12 metre car stackers
  • 1 x mixed use building
  • 1 x Wharf Pavilion
  • 1 x Slipway Building
Adaptive re-use of exisiting buildings and structures:
  • Shipwrights Building; to be used for a micro brewery
  • Shed 8; to be used for commercial /community activities or residential and short term accomodation
  • Submarine mining building (currently housing the Chocoate Fish café) wil be relocated
  • Slipway (alongside the Shipwrights Building)
  • Wharf structures – intended to be retained but outside the scope of the application.

Yes, Shelly Bay should be developed, but in Enterprise Miramar’s view not in this way.

The Shelly Bay development is large in size and footprint and it will, as a result, change this part of the Peninsula in a range of different ways, including in terms of its existing character. For instance, the consented development includes apartment buildings up to 27 metres high. Some of those buildings appear to be proposed to be built on land that is zoned as open space.

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