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Growth Demand Research

Population and Employment Projections Update, September 2006
Prepared forSmartgrowth by Craig Batchelar, Boffa Miskell Limited
The purpose of the project is to update and enhance development projections provided in the SmartGrowth Strategy and Implementation Plan (SmartGrowth) to reflect implementation outcomes since its adoption in May 2004.

Eastern Corridor Study, September 2006
SmartTransport
The purpose of this report is to complete an integrated land use / transportation study of the SmartGrowth Eastern Corridor.

Review of Business Land Requirements, Western Bay of Plenty, June 2006
Phil McDermott Consultants
This report has been commissioned to examine the way ahead in the provision of business land for the western Bay of Plenty in light of discrepancies in analyses of demand.

Intensification Scenario Testing, August 2003
Boffa Miskell Ltd
A technical study, demonstrating possible future residential intensification based on different housing types. Note: This is a theoretical application and does not confer or remove rights in anyway.
Car Ownership Forecasting, March 2003
Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner Ltd
This paper discusses methods for forecasting car ownership and sets out a method for incorporating a car ownership model into the Tauranga Transport Model.

New Transport Technology, March 2003
Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner Ltd
The aim of this paper is to review the trends and influences in new transport technology and how these may be factors in future planning of the region.

SmartGrowth - Land and Ocean Discharge of Wastewater, May 2003
Montgomery Watson Harza
This report compares the issues and costs of land application of treated wastewater with those of treated wastewater to the ocean.

Restrained Growth - A review of public policy issues, February 2003
Technical Director, SmartGrowth
This report reviews the issues of implementing restrained growth as a growth management Strategy.
Economic Drivers and Determinants, December 2002
Joanna Smith and Phil Briggs, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
A review of the current economic structure of the Western Bay of Plenty sub-region, and forecast of the likely shape of the areas economy over the next 50 years.

Rural Issues background Report, August 2002
Harrison and Grierson
An analysis of rural development issues relevant to growth management.

Possible Future Economic Activity: An Economic Scan, June 2002
McKinley Douglas Limited
Prospects for changing economic drivers and implications to achieve a preferred economic future.

Recent Developments in population movement and Growth in the Western Bay of Plenty, May 2002
Population Studies Centre, Waikato University
An analysis of the 2001 census results for the western Bay of Plenty sub-region.

Growth in population and households in the western BOP: A 50 year forecast, May 2002
Population Studies Centre, Waikato University
Population and household forecasts to 2051

Contextualising Tauranga: Towards an Understanding of the Consumer City and SmartGrowth, March 2002
Dr Colin McLeay, Department of Geography, The University of Waikato at Tauranga
Identification of future demographic and built environment development drivers from a local and international perspective.

Researching characteristics of people moving into and out of the western Bay of Plenty and Tauranga Districts: Some Methodical issues, February 2002
Population Studies Centre, Waikato University
Population and household forecasts to 2051.

Alternative Approaches to Funding the Costs of Growth,
SmartGrowth
This report outlines the work done for SmartGrowth in examining funding alternatives and how this issue can be incorporated into the SmartGrowth Strategy.

All Our Futures. The impact of aging communities in the Western Bay of Plenty Sub- Region
Carole Gordon
This report examines the impact of population aging within the SmartGrowth Study area.

Western Bay SmartGrowth region; A summary of the population, labour force and household projections.
Richard Bedford
This report provides background to the assumptions used in determining these projections.