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McIndoe Urban has recently been appointed by Hutt City Council (HCC) to prepare a spatial plan for the Hutt City CBD. This work is following a successful project working alongside HCC and the Petone 2040 Group to prepare a spatial plan for Petone. This spatial plan will be aimed at reviewing and refreshing council's "CBD Making Places" report, and will describe a coherent, compelling and achievable vision for Hutt City Centre, that is to be the reference for future Council initiatives.

HNZC is working to bring forward key sites that can deliver a new higher quality, higher density housing solution. Housing need in NZ has changed and no longer is the traditional 3 bed house meeting the current demographic profile of those needing housing support. A shift towards smaller 1 and 2 bed dwellings, as well as larger 5 and 6 bed dwellings is sought. Wellington has a number of well-located, vacant sites in the Hutt Valley and Porirua awaiting development. McIndoe Urban has been engaged by HNZC to developed new high quality medium density masterplans for a number of these and is currently preparing schemes to Preliminary Design for resource consent.

McIndoe Urban have been commissioned to prepare a masterplan for Palmerston North's Central Energy Trust Arena (CETA). Located just 500m to the west of the square, CETA's vision is to make sport activity visible, accessible and inviting within the City and the Manawatu Region. The masterplan aims to achieve this vision with a range of facility upgrades and new projects such as a new main entrance plaza on the corner of Waldegrave and Cuba Sts.

McIndoe Urban with CCM and Isthmus won the NZIA 2017 Western Architecture Award for the Massey Campus Development Plan. This Plan establishes the future for the Turitea and Fitzherbert Science campuses and was put to the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment in August 2013. Further information can be found at: https://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/local/award-detail/6745