Everest Avenue / Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre Parking

Consultation has concluded, we will now collate and analyse the results for consideration at the next Traffic Subcommittee meeting.

UPDATE:

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on our parking proposals for the Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre.

Council officers are now reviewing what we heard from the community on the parking layout around the new pool and wider Town Centre.

The key themes of the 172 submissions via the Have Your Say survey focused on the availability and make up of parking, including the number of family, mobility, electric vehicle, bike and staff parks.

The pool is the centrepiece of the Whakatupu Ngaengae project to revitalise Naenae, also including the just-opened Te Mako Community Centre and soon to be revamped Walter Mildenhall Park.

As a regional and community facility, the new pool will host more than 450,000 annual visitors. While it's been closed, traffic patterns in that area have changed and we now need to plan so everyone who uses the pool or the town centre continues to have convenient parking nearby.

Our planning incorporates what parking is available both around the pool and the adjacent streets.

Our proposed Naenae parking includes:

254 parking spaces (including 13 mobility spaces) within two minutes or 150 metres of walking distance to the pool

500 parking spaces within five minutes including

262 parking spaces with time restrictions of 60 or 120 minutes, shared with town centre commercial activities

91 spaces on nearby streets, including Treadwell, Vogel and Rata Streets.

Hundreds more parking spaces further south within 10 minutes’ walk through relatively low volume residential streets.

The recommendations now being developed will be considered by the council’s transport subcommittee at the end of August.

They will take account of anticipated additional needs generated by the town centre’s regrowth and feedback from users, retailers, residents and other stakeholders.

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We're consulting on changes to parking on Everest Avenue, and the allocation of carparks for the new Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre.

In March 2023 we consulted on the change of some angled parks on the southern end of Everest Avenue to parallel parks. We’re continuing this proposal but also seeking targeted feedback from local retailers who will be most affected by the change.

There will be cycle stands provided outside the main reception.

The drop-off zone for buses on Everest Avenue will be maintained and enhanced with new road markings. This is also used by schools to drop off classes for swimming lessons is used from 9.00am-2.30pm Monday to Friday and so needs to be kept clear.

A new change proposed on Everest Avenue since the prior consultation is the conversion of 2 of the remaining angled parks north of the pedestrian crossing from P120 (maximum 2 hours) to P10 (maximum 10 minutes).

Diagram of the proposed parking on Everest Avenue and the Naenae Pool and Fitness Centre

There will be 28 offstreet carparks created to serve the new pool complex. We're proposing:

2 mobility carparks,
2 dedicated carparks for families with prams,
4 EV charger carparks,
6 carparks for Pool and Fitness Centre staff,
and 14 P120 carparks.

If you have any feedback please complete the survey below or email us at naenaeproject@huttcity.govt.nz

Feedback closes 5pm Friday 19 July