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Unitary Plan – Towards Notification #2
A Warning to the City Slowing Down the Unitary Plan Will Come at a Great Cost to Auckland As a part of a two-part mini-series I will be going over the Unitary Plan briefing to the media outlets...
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Unitary Plan Updates – Day 2
We Finally Move on from Residential Provisions Two days later the Auckland Plan Committee finally got through Recommendations A-E, V, and W. Effectively 7 out of 69 recommendations have been passed...
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First Special Housing Accord Development Under Way
Large Scale Social Housing Project under way in Weymouth I noticed from respected property writer Bob Dey that Auckland Council and the Central Government signed off the first Special Housing Area...
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Transport Again Number One Issue in Auckland
If it isn’t moving – it is NOT moving Well this was not particularly surprising at all. What is the number one issue in Auckland? TRANSPORT Go figure The Herald released a scientific poll this...
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MUDs are back on the agenda
Could Municipal Utility Districts assist with housing provisions It was picked up last night that the Neo Liberal think-tank – The New Zealand Initiative put forward three ideas to address the supply...
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Labour on Housing
So National or Labour on Housing And the battle for the housing affordability answer is very much under way with Labour and their Kiwi Build, and National with their Special Housing Areas. For more...
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National’s Housing Policy – Universally Panned?
Universally Panned? Well you know when Social Liberals, Neo Liberals and even Classic Liberals start panning National’s new housing policy from yesterday National might have a wee problem. Twitter...
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RMA Reforms to Get Under-way – In Earnest
Reforms to tackle housing affordability? From the Minister for the Environment – Dr Nick Smith Reform of RMA critical to reforming housing affordability The Resource Management Act needs to...
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Social Housing Development Stalled
Will it go ahead? Two years ago Talking Auckland reported on a large social housing development (500 houses) was to take place in Papakura not far from where I live. That post you can see here:...
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10 Places You Can Find a Place for Under $500k in Auckland
Just need to be at the Park and Ride by 7:30 ;-) We all have heard the stories on Auckland being unaffordable right? Well it didn’t stop Rebekka and I … Continue reading 10 Places You Can Find a Place...
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South Auckland House Prices Running Away #AKLPols #NZPols
Savings once made now gone I have known for a while that people and money were following out of the prohibitive Isthmus and into South and Southern Auckland as people … Continue reading South Auckland...
View ArticleLooking at Housings Differently. Council Gets a Ruler Across the Knuckles for...
Excellent presentation to Planning Committee On Tuesday the Planning Committee were to make a decision on how to continue to advance housing in Auckland. While the Councillors selected a sub … Continue...
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