The Brian Perry Charitable Trust Applicant

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1 IN THE MATTER OF: The Resource Management Act, 1991 AND IN THE MATTER OF: An Application for Land Use Resource Consent to redevelop and expand an existing Visitor Accommodation activity located at 20 Peake Road, Cambridge. BY: The Brian Perry Charitable Trust Applicant Statement of Evidence by Peter Francis Chibnall 27 October 2016

2 1. My name is Peter Francis Chibnall, Registered Architect inside the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA). I am a Fellow of the NZIA, and have a Bachelor of Architecture 1982, from Auckland University. 2. I have been responsible for the following building design and deliveries since 1983; The Avantidrome, Cambridge Don Rowlands Rowing Centre, Karapiro Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Catholic Cathedral, Hamilton Gallagher Group Head Office, Hamilton The Mews Motel, Hall Street, Cambridge The Verandah Cafe/Function Centre, Hamilton Lake Waikato Hospice, Cobham Drive, Hamilton Ngaruawahia Golf Clubhouse University of Waikato S Block Te Totara School, Hamilton North Te Kohao Health Centre, Hamilton St.Paul s Collegiate Chapel, Hamilton Pakiri Point Boutique Lodge, Auckland Lake Ridge Townhouses, Hamilton Lake, Hamilton Graham and Raewyn Henry Home, St. Heliers, Auckland Resthaven Retirement Village; Community Centre, Views over Vogel, Cambridge Pavilions Motel, Christchurch Annitton Hall Hotel, Cambridge 3. I am the project architect for the proposed redevelopment and expansion of the existing visitor accommodation facility at 20 Peake Road, Cambridge. 4. The Architectural Design drawings are contained in the BCD Group Limited, Resource Consent Application, dated 26 September, 2016.

3 The drawings previously provided to Council in March and June 2016, have been updated in September 2016 to reflect visual, noise, amenity and reverse sensitivity effects design changes, in direct response to comments and submissions from the surrounding Neighbours, as the Applicant sought expert advice to address their concerns. 5. These masterplanning and architectural changes include the following; a. Creating a sculptured, sloping west to east and south to north, 1.2metre to 1.8metre high landscaped earth bunding, on both the north and east boundaries. b. Configuring a 1.2 metre high rural design aesthetic post and rail fence along the perimeter of the west, north and east earth bund. c. Relocation of the main carparking area from the north yard to be more centralised between the building groups. d. Relocation of the north building group, to a location slightly nearer the north boundary, yet still outside the 15metre Council setback. e. Providing additional landscaping along many of the car parking edges. f. Amending the parking areas and alignments and related manoeuvring of most arrival vehicles, to be located adjacent to the main Reception building. g. Amending parking areas between the Reception building and the adjacent accommodation group of buildings. h. Reconfiguring the traffic movement around the site, to be a simply managed clockwise, and one way system.

4 i. Preparing a landscape planting and fencing plan to reflect the rural residential character of the area. 6. Further Masterplanning and Architectural Design refinements have been undertaken as a series of recommendations by Rebecca Ryder of Boffa Miskell Landscape. These refinements include the following; a. Reducing and decentralising the scale and number of the east carpark area, to relocate these vehicle spaces in and around the adjacent chalets. This vehicle layout refinement moves the traffic movements behind the buildings and away from the northern and eastern boundaries. b. Adding larger landscaping screening to the pedestrian courtyard areas between and around the chalet groups, to further depict the character of the Cambridge Rural Residential area. c. Provide large trees to the main entry off Peake Road, sufficient to maintain the established character and feel of the surrounding Cambridge Rural Residential area. d. Provide a 1.2metre high post and rail fence along Peake Road, bringing rural fencing design elements into the project s overall architectural design and boundary treatments. e. Provide a sculptured, sloping west to east and south to north, 1.2metre to 1.8metre high landscaped earth bund to the north and east boundaries, with a sloping mowable surface, and on top of the bund provide a dense hedgerow, like Conifer or similar large scale screening tree planting. Further, a smaller earth bund has been located on the east of the carparking area to further screen the site from the north and east neighbours.

5 7. The main architectural drivers in this Sports Lodge design, are as follows; a. A distinctly traditional rural farmhouse architectural design aesthetic. This architectural delivery brings to this site, a configuration of timeless, one level farm cottage buildings, configured in and around several pedestrian and vehicle precincts, to create an overall Sports Lodge campus configuration. b. The cottages are further configured in and around a series of adjacent external courtyards. The buildings are configured on site, as far from the north and east neighbours as is practical. This is shown with the red line on the Site Plan, Page R015. Each Studio can open out onto this adjacent landscaped and screened courtyard, as is shown on these aerial images, Page R304 and R305.

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7 c. The exterior materials to these cottages are a mix of corrugated Colorsteel cladding, both to the walls and roof planes. This reinforces the New Zealand rural farm cottage design aesthetic. Combined with stained vertical tongue and grooved and/or board and batten cladding, the exterior materiality reinforces this architectural delivery, into a subtle and simple New Zealand architectural composition. d. The vehicle access into and out of the site, is taken through the existing Peake Road crossing. The vehicle traffic is configured in a clockwise movement through the building groups. Screening from the west, the north and the east neighbours, is by way of generous landscaping and earth berms, to prevent vehicle headlight

8 sweeping and related traffic/people noise affecting those neighbours as shown on the northeast perspective image on Page R306. e. The Arrival/Reception/Guest Amenity/Meeting Rooms/Manager s buildings are deliberately set next to this existing Peake Road crossing, ensuring noise and traffic movements are well away from the north and east neighbours. f. The Sports Lodge Campus is deliberately conceived as a landscaped rural park, with generous mature and young deciduous and evergreen trees screening the west, south, east and north neighbours. Peter Chibnall, Registered Architect,

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