Category: Affordable Housing
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This is why Auckland Council should have kept affordable housing provisions in Unitary Plan
I blogged earlier on why I believe Auckland Council made a bad decision in excluding affordable housing provisions from the Unitary Plan. Council had originally proposed that all residential developments of more than 15 dwellings should include provision for “retained affordable housing” of at least 10 per cent of the units. Qualifying units were dwellings…
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Glen Eden apartments approved
The application for resource consent to construct two ten story apartment towers in Glen Eden has been approved. As I previously blogged the Waitakere Ranges Local Board had concerns about the proposal and made submissions concerning the Resource Consent application. We support urban renewal and intensification particularly close to transport nodes as long as the…
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Auckland Council rejects Affordable Housing provisions in Unitary Plan
The debate on Auckland’s Unitary Plan is now under way. Much of the Unitary Plan recommendations are being accepted by the Council without dissent but there are some controversial proposals. One of them involved a rear guard action by the Mayor and progressive Councillors to retain provisions relating to affordable housing. The original notified plan included proposals…
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The Unitary Plan will not solve the Housing Crisis
The Government has put a lot of weight on the Unitary Plan dealing with the housing crisis that clearly Auckland is in the middle of. Last week Minister of Housing Nick Smith said this: It’s not for me to be trying to influence the Council as it now works its way through those recommendations and comes…
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Apartments for Glen Eden?
The Western Leader recently published a story about a proposal to build two ten story apartment houses in the middle of Glen Eden. From the article: Ten-storey towers of mostly one-bedroom flats have been proposed for suburban west Auckland, prompting local fears they will turn into slums. Developers have applied for non-notifiable resource consent to build…