LURP submission

Kia ora tatou,

This is the One Voice Te Reo Kotahi submission to the Land Use Recovery Plan that came out of the forum on Saturday 20-April.

LURP Submission from One Voice Te Reo Kotahi

This submission is to forward some from themes from the One Voice Te Reo Kotahi (OVTRK) Forum which was called to discuss and coordinate responses from NGOs in the light of the OVTRK kaupapa, to the preliminary draft LURP.

18 people attended and 11 apologised.

The NGOs represented: Spokes, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Eastern Vision, Purau Residents’ Group, Mt Pleasant Residents’ Association, NZ Association for Environmental Education, ChCh Resettlement Services, The VIVA Project, Public Health Association, Network Waitangi Otautahi, Mental Health Education and Research Centre, YWCA, ChCh Women’s Centre, National Council of Women, Avon Otakaro Network Association, Sustainable Otautahi Christchurch, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Selwyn Water Management Committee, The VIVA Project, Canterbury Communities’ Earthquake Recovery Network and Eastern Vision

Apologies from those unable to be present: SuperGrans, Problem Gambling Association, Barnardos, Te Whare Roimata, Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association, Christchurch Migrants Centre and the Council of Social Services, Third Age Forum

OVTRK is a no-cost opportunity to register Non Government Organisations (NGOs) as being interested in working with other NGOs in greater Christchurch according to our kaupapa.

OVTRK is independent and speaks from the “NGO” sector – the Third Sector – allowing the voices of organisations that have not been formed by Government or Commerce to be heard.

Website: onevoicetereokotahi.blogspot.co.nz

Submission themes:

This submission is to address the question on page 11 of the draft LURP – “What needs to change ... to enable the rebuilding and recovery of greater Christchurch?”

·        Reservations about how the many recovery plans will be reintegrated to inform a cohesive Urban Plan for Greater Christchurch – and the transparency around this process of integration

·        Communication process used to ensure the diverse voice of all residents in the Greater Christchurch area.

·        The engagement and participation of the community by their specific stakeholder partner to the LURP such as CCC, has been severely compromised by the short time frame for the consultation process and the lack of direct contact with resident associations and other key community organisations.

·        With Greenfield developments aimed at 42,000 houses, the current trend (already started) will be to develop these in preference to brownfield and inner city areas. This will be highly undesirable, not least when the high probability of much higher costs for transport fuels in the near future (Peak Oil) will be likely to render these developments uneconomic soon after they are built.

·        Support, facilitate and enable community leadership engagement and participation.

·        CERA and TAs to co-ordinate and integrate existing agency commitments to empowerment of local populations including support for use of recognized public participation values & processes at a local, district & regional level.

·        CERA & TAs to co-ordinate, integrate & simplify communications to ensure accessibility to & understanding by all communities & social groups

·        CERA & TAs to review time frames to ensure an optimal balance of effective public engagement and efficient timetabling.

·        CERA monitors and reports on these engagement processes & programmes to ensure that a shared sense of vision is developed; also that guidances, rules & plans are consistent with achieving this vision.

On behalf of the attendees at the One Voice Te Reo Kotahi Forum on 20 April 2013

OVTRK Co Chairs

Dora Langsbury and Katherine Peet

22 April 2013

Reminder: Saturday's LURP Forum

This is just a reminder to our registry that the next One Voice Te Reo Kotahi (OVTRK) Open Forum is to discuss and coordinate responses to the CERA draft Land Use Recovery Plan (LURP) in the light of the OVTRK kaupapa. 

We have interpreted the OVTRK kaupapa as aligning with the statutory responsibility of CERA to restore the social, economic, cultural and environmental well-being of greater Christchurch communities. 

We hope this Forum will provide an opportunity for NGOs to share responses to the LURP. This is intended to both inform each other (including those NGOs who have not been able to do much work on the LURP) and encourage us all to plan next steps for OVTRK. 

The Forum is coming up on Saturday 20 April, 2pm - 4:30pm at the YMCA at 12 Hereford St - there are good bike racks, it is accessible by bus and has off-street parking accessed off Cashel St - for which you need to sign in at reception with your number plate.

Hope to see you there.

Food for thought.

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Watch the full TED talk here.

please share widely - OVTRK open forum on the LURP

Simple reminder about the next OVTRK open forum.  Please spread word!

The next One Voice Te Reo Kotahi (OVTRK) Open Forum is to discuss and coordinate responses to the CERA draft Land Use Recovery Plan (LURP) in the light of the OVTRK kaupapa.

We have interpreted the OVTRK kaupapa as aligning with the statutory responsibility of CERA to restore the social, economic, cultural and environmental well-being of greater Christchurch communities.
We hope this Forum will provide an opportunity for NGOs to share responses to the LURP. This is intended to both inform each other (including those NGOS who have not been able to do much work on the LURP) and encourage us all to plan next steps for OVTRK.

The Forum is to be held on Saturday 20 April 2-4.30pm at the YMCA at 12 Hereford St - there are good bike racks, it is accessible by bus and has off-street parking accessed off Cashel St - for which you need to sign in at reception with your number plate.

notes from the last forum and upcoming events

Kia ora!  We've just sent an email out to our registry last week regarding four important items.

Notes from the most recent open forum
As promised, we sent out the notes from the most recent open forum.  Those who attended brought up key issues facing their organisations and the sector at the moment, and Wendy and Sara fed back from their first CERA Community Well-being Planning Group meeting.

Next OVTRK forum: LURP focus
There is one particular item that we would like to highlight, and that's the next OVTRK open forum, which will focus on the CERA Preliminary Draft Land Use Recovery Plan (LURP).   This plan under the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Strategy has enormous statutory clout in terms of statutory directions, interventions under the CER Act and the power to change regulations and circumvent many existing statutory and regulatory provisions under other acts.  We have interpreted the kaupapa of the plan as aligning with the statutory responsibility of CERA to restore the social, economic, cultural and environmental well-being of greater Christchurch communities. The Preliminary Draft LURP will be out for formal consultation until 22 April.  Full and summary versions are available at www.developingchoices.org.nz and the workshop schedule can be found here. 

We have decided to hold the next forum on Sunday 20 April 2pm - 4:30pm at the YWCA (12 Hereford Street) as a special OVTRK workshop to coordinate responses to the LURP.  We would love for your organisation to share feedback on this plan, and will send out an update after the forum. 

Great piece of research

We recently came across a great read: Building Community Resilience: Learning from the Canterbury earthquakes, a report put together by Canterbury District Health Board (Community and Public Health), Mental Health Foundation, University of Otago, and Quigley and Watts Ltd. The report looks at what increases a community's ability to adapt after a disaster, especially from the perspective of post-disaster communities themselves.  The report uses six key case studies focusing on Lyttelton, Shirley, Inner City East, Marae Communities, Migrant & Refugee Communities, and Christchurch Community House.

Summary of upcoming events of interest (see sidebar)

On the side-bar of the blog, we've added a list of upcoming events that have been highlighted as being important to the sector.  One Voice Te Reo Kotahi is trying to organise to have at least one person from our organising group present at each meeting so that we can communicate important sector information that we think would benefit the NGOs on our registry.

That's all for now, everyone.

Cheers,
The OVTRK Team