Auckland City Centre Residents' Group

Transport and Access
CCRG will advocate for safe and reliable access for everyone with pedestrians, cyclists, micro-mobility, public transport, and service delivery having priority for all transport related decisions in the city centre. Our primary focus is to support the integrity and implementation of the City Centre Masterplan as the primary delivery model for all city centre projects, including various forms of transport that favour environmentally friendly options. Access for Everyone is a critical addition to the CCMP that will enable many of the improvements we seek for the city centre. CCRG expects that all private use of public street space should come at a cost to the user with that revenue spent dedicated to improving the public realm.

Belonging and Participating
The city centre is our home, it is where we belong, participate, eat, play and recreate – we are therefore the most vested in building a world class space for all, based on timely implementation of the City Centre Master Plan.

Parks, Community, and Lifestyle
Great public spaces are the identifier of cities – these are the places we all enjoy, remember, photograph, meet others, relax and play in, irrespective of which city we find them. Public spaces, in all their forms, are precious assets that improve everyone’s lifestyle and must be maintained, enhanced, and increased. The city centre does not have enough open space, so if any existing public space needs to be modified, for whatever reason, the outcome must be a better public space option for residents. In any decisions made about the use of current, or future public spaces, the simple recreational needs (“third spaces”) of the residential community, are to be considered of equal or greater importance to that of events and commercial needs.

Māori Identity and Wellbeing
CCRG will actively support the integration of Māori values and history into council planning, decision-making and delivery so that we can celebrate the history and unique story of Tāmaki Makaurau with the world.

Environment and Cultural Heritage
Residents are entitled to a healthy City Centre environment. To ensure a healthy environment for all generations Do No Harm is CCRG’s first development principle. Auckland’s ability to understand, appreciate and celebrate our own, and other cultures and heritage, is the key to our economic future.
The CCRG will advocate for and cooperate with others:

• that noise, air and light pollution in all forms are significant issues and must be managed to limit the impact on residents, while maintaining a vibrant city centre
• for a physically clean city & to find opportunities to reduce waste, increase recycling & limit the impacts of rubbish
• that antisocial behaviour be appropriately managed to ensure the perception and the reality, of a safe city centre
• to ensure that the air, waterways and beaches connected to the city centre, are clean and safe for human use.

Opportunity and Prosperity
CCRG supports the many learning institutions within the city centre in their lead role as developers of innovation, technology and entrepreneurship that will drive opportunities for all. In addition to the Auckland Plan outcomes, CCRG have also developed a more general governance outcome that they expect from all parts of the Auckland Council family. Along with any with any growth in the city centre, improved public transport, quality public spaces and a healthy environment must always be prioritised. The CCRG focus is to ensure that the funds raised through the city centre residential targeted rates are spent on projects that have a measurable benefit for residents, and are not used as a subsidy for other interests.

Homes and Places
Quality homes and great public spaces are the identifiers of cities – these are the places we all enjoy, remember, photograph, meet others, relax and play in, irrespective of which city we find them.

Economic and Cultural
Auckland’s ability to understand, appreciate and celebrate our own, and other cultures, is the key to our economic future. Along with great public spaces, the CCRG strongly supports the concept that Auckland as a great place to live will have a major influence on future economic success and cultural enrichment.

Governance and Support
Open and transparent governance practises provide the essential structure that underpins the legitimacy of public sector leadership. CCRG will work with the Auckland Council family and the Auckland City Centre Advisory Panel to ensure that the voice of all groups of City Centre residents are at the centre of any decision making within the city centre, in particular as regards to the expenditure of the City Centre Targeted Rate.