Change and development in Glen Eden 2017: report to Waitakere Ranges Local Board

Abstract

This paper has been expanded from the report previously published by ePress on 13.11.2017 [https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3981]

This is a report on change and development issues facing Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local Board commissioned staff of the Social Practice Department of Unitec to carry out a two-stage report. The first stage was a literature search looking at material specific to Glen Eden as well as more theoretical information about development and growth. This second and final stage includes interviews carried out with key stakeholders in Glen Eden.

This report makes a number of suggestions to the Waitakere Ranges Local Board relating to the redevelopment of the Glen Eden town centre, design and urban policies concerning future intensification of Glen Eden, and greater emphasis on strategies to deal with such matters as safety, cycleways and pedestrian amenity.

In making recommendations about growth and change there is an everpresent challenge: to ensure that all citizens, young old, new or long-term, Māori, Pākehā and people of many cultural backgrounds, feel they are not ignored but are included in the cultural and political life of Glen Eden and its surrounding areas.