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The Minister of Education has applied to designate 700 Selwyn Road, West Village, Faringdon, Rolleston for educational purposes to enable the establishment of educational facilities that principally cater for secondary school students from Year 9 to Year 13, along with a primary school, early childhood education centre and specialist Hangarau teaching hub/space. These facilities are required to meet the future educational needs of students in a high growth area, and are considered necessary to achieve the key objective of the Minister, which is to provide state schooling and education facilities in a manner that meets the purpose of the Education and Training Act 2020.

Update 13 March 2023

ME31 is now Live as of 10 March 2023

Update 15 February 2023

The Minister’s decision to accept the recommendation of the Council without change is dated 15 February 2023. More information about the alterations:

Notice of requirement [PDF, 585 KB]
Planning assessment  [PDF, 3343 KB]
Attachment A: Designation Plan  [PDF, 2999 KB]
Attachment B: Record of Title [PDF, 277 KB]
Attachment C: Contamination and Geotechnical Memorandum  [PDF, 1160 KB]
Attachment D: FTCA West Village Decision RC215539 and RC215540  [PDF, 5644 KB]
Attachment E: Infrastructure Memorandum [PDF, 1494 KB]
Attachment F: Integrated Transport Assessment [PDF, 7167 KB]
Attachment G: Written Approvals [PDF, 439 KB]

Update 8 February 2023

Council resolved on 8 February 2023 to recommend to the Minister that the Notice of Requirement (D220002) for an educational facility be confirmed, subject to conditions.

Commissioner recommendation [PDF, 346 KB]
Council agenda for 8 February 2023 (report p167) [PDF, 25884 KB]
Minutes of Council meeting 8 February 2023 (page 5) [PDF, 216 KB]
Requiring Authority decision [PDF, 241 KB]

Update 13 January 2022

An independent commissioner has reviewed the notice of Requirement and concluded that the Notice should be considered o a non-notified basis
Notification decision [PDF, 432 KB]

Update 12 December 2022

The applicant has supplied the following response to Council's request for further information regarding the Transportation Assessment.

Response to the request for further information - 12 December 2022 [PDF, 237 KB]
Response to Council Peer Review - Abley (Transport) [PDF, 211 KB]

Update 12 September 2022

The applicant has supplied the following response to Council’s request for further information.

Response to the request for further information - 12 September 2022 [PDF, 308 KB]
Rolleston College RFI Response Memo - Abley (Transport) [PDF, 460 KB]

Update 17 June 2022

Further information has been requested in order to better understand the application.

Council request for further information 17 June 2022 [PDF, 340 KB]
Proposed Springston Rolleston & Selwyn Roads intersection upgrade [PDF, 4744 KB]

Application - 10 June 2022

The Notice for Requirement request consists of the following documents:
Application for Notice of Requirement [PDF, 3343 KB]

Application broken into component parts:
Form 18 [PDF, 585 KB]
Appendix A - Designation Plan [PDF, 2999 KB]
Appendix B - Record of Title [PDF, 277 KB]
Appendix C - Contamination and Geotechnical Memorandum [PDF, 1160 KB]
Appendix D -  FTCA West Village Decision RC215539 and RC215540 [PDF, 5644 KB]
Appendix E - Infrastructure Memorandum [PDF, 1494 KB]
Appendix F - Integrated Transport Assessment [PDF, 7167 KB]
Appendix G - Written Approvals [PDF, 439 KB]

Contact

For further information contact the team on 0800 SELWYN (735 996) or email contactus@selwyn.govt.nz