Stop the Stadium

Here is a list of links to the relevant decisions, peer reviews, submissions and reports about the proposed Awatea St stadium and related issues.

The Proposed Plan Change Hearings - What happened?

Proposed Plan Change 8: Stadium (PC-2007-4) and Harbour Arterial: Notice of Requirement (DIS-2008-3)

» Days 1 and 2 - Monday and Tuesday, 10-11 November 2008

Decisions

• 17 March Resolution These are the City Council’s conditions for continuing their support of the proposed stadium, passed 17 March 2008. From the DCC website. (See entire the report to Finance & Strategy meeting listed below - 11 documents.)
• Other requirements under the 17 March Resolution From the DCC website.
• Report by DCC Manager Finance and Corporate Support, Athol Stephens, recommending the transfer of stadium financing from the Carisbrook Stadium Trust (CST) to the DCC. The report was accepted. It outlines the financial implications for the DCC budget forecast, 25 May 2008.  (PDF, 468KB). Reason for change influenced by the nature of the CST’s Trust Deed, 25 July 2007.  (PDF, 576KB).
• ORC Committee resolves to recommend part funding the proposed Awatea St Stadium. Press release 11 June 2008 from Otago Regional Council website.
• ORC Committee recommends revenue policy for part funding the proposed Awatea St Stadium. Press release 11 June 2008 from Otago Regional Council website.

Peer reviews

The Davis Langdon Peer Review is a document commissioned by the Dunedin City Council to check and comment on the information supplied by the Carisbrook Stadium Trust regarding the proposal to build and operate a stadium at Awatea Street. It was submitted on the 10th of March 2008, seven days before the city council voted its conditional support to advance the project. Copies of it were attached to the city councillors’ briefing papers.

It includes:

• An architectural review.
• A business case review.
• A construction and project costs review.
• A risk assessment.
• Comment on procurement.
• Comment on the programme.
• Comment on regulatory matters.
• Comment on funding status.

It also has in its appendices:

• A report from Creative Spaces, which is the architectural review.
• A letter from Buddle Findlay, which is a statement about funding and sponsorships.
• Letters from Rider Levett Bucknall, which are a cost management review.
• A peer review report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers, which is a financial feasibility review.

It is a lengthy document and is presented as the four PDF files immediately below, and also as the files at the end of this page, items numbered 6,7,8 and 9. The document, with its component parts, is often referred to as the “Peer Reviews” and also as the “Peer Reports”.

The document refers to “exclusions” and is subject to deletions. The exclusions are things excluded from the reviewers’ scrutiny which they considered significant to determining the questions they had been commissioned to answer. In the absence of the excluded information they considered they could not arrive at answers to questions such as the project’s likely operating costs and revenues; the cost of building the facility at Awatea Street; or the overall cost of the project to the city, taking into account for example, necessary changes to the infrastructure such as the need to further divert SH88. The deletions are parts of the text removed, ostensibly for reasons of commercial sensitivity. The documents here are marked in places that there are deletions, leaving the impression councillors’ did not see those sections. Most of the deletions have subsequently been made public through Bev Butler’s applications to the Office of the Ombudsmen under the Public Information Act. They turned out to be things not legitimately excluded under the provisions of the act.

• Davis Langdon Peer Review, Part 1,  (PDF, 1.5MB).
• Davis Langdon Peer Review, Part 2,  (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Davis Langdon Peer Review Correspondence, Feb 08  (PDF, 3.6MB)
• Creative Spaces Report Mar 08, Buddle Findlay Letters Mar 08 & Rider Levett  Buchnall Letters Feb-Mar 08 (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Price Waterhouse Cooper Peer Review, Dec 07 (PDF, 2.3MB)

Deletions to the Price Waterhouse Cooper report and other documents, released under the Official Information Act

• P. 13: 4.14-4.17 (PDF, 192.5KB) 
• P. 19: 4.52-4.54 (PDF, 212KB) 
• P. 20: 4.57 (PDF, 120KB)
• Rider, Levett Bucknall letter 4 Feb 2008 (PDF, 44KB)

• Construction and Project Cost Review, Client Representative Report, p. 16,  (PDF, 146KB)

District plan changes

To facilitate the stadium project it is necessary to make changes to the Dunedin District Plan, a document with the force of law governing land uses, among other things.

In particular it is necessary to change the use of land in the Awatea Street area from industrial to allow its use for stadium and university purposes. This is the object of the proposed “Plan change 8″ which the city has notified.

It is also necessary to have the route of the proposed re-alignment of state highway 88 (the Dunedin to Port Chalmers highway), which is needed to divert the highway around the proposed stadium, given a designation for that purpose. This is the object of the “Notice of Requirement Harbour Arterial (DIS-2008-3)” which the city has also notified.

These are subject to public hearings and the documents concerning them are accessible immediately below.

Reports about the proposed Awatea St stadium

• The Carisbrook Stadium Trust’s report to the Finance and Strategy Committee meeting, 4 August 2008 ( PDF, 220KB).
• Drawings and diagrams of the preliminary design of the Awatea Street Stadium (PDF, 1.6MB) June 2008.

Documents from the important 17 March 2008 Finance and Strategy Committee meeting (can also be requested in hard copy from the DCC, phone 477 4000. They can be picked up or posted):

1. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 01 CEO Report (PDF, 194KB).
2. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 02 CEO Report Att A CST Report (PDF, 1.2MB).
3. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 03 CEO Report Att A1 CST Report (PDF, 40KB).
4. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 04 CEO Report Att A2 CST Report (PDF, 398KB).
5. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 05 CEO Report Att A3 CST Report (PDF, 112KB).
6. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 06 CEO Report Att B1 Peer Reviews (PDF, 1.5MB).
7. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 06 CEO Report Att B2 Peer Reviews (PDF, 1.4MB).
8. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 06 CEO Report Att B3 Peer Reviews (PDF, 1.4MB).
9. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 06 CEO Report Att B4 Peer Reviews PWC (PDF, 2.3MB).
10. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Agenda Item 6 Stadium 07 CEO Report Att C - J (PDF, 1.4MB).
11. DCC F&S Meeting 080317 Minutes (PDF, 54KB).