The Matakana Village Complex is a timeless urban design scheme that delivers through sensitive built form and a landscaping strategy with a strong sense of place and identity. It is what it says it is: a revived village with a growing sense of civic pride and community that centres its commerce and activity around a small stream, new shops, cinemas and a central market place or village heart. The built form also has a modesty, homogeneity, cohesiveness and human scale about it which will serve it well over time.