Category: unitary plan
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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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The Unitary Plan and the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Act
The Independent Hearings Panel has released the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan. How Council handles it from here will be interesting. The plan provides for levels of intensification well above those levels which caused near riots in the leafy suburbs recently. The removal of the pre 1944 overlay and the removal of a list of sites…
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Local Boards will not be consulted on final form of Auckland’s Unitary Plan
The Unitary Plan is approaching its denouement. The decision of the Hearings Panel has been provided to Auckland Council and Council officers have been analysing the report all weekend. It is anticipated that the report will be publicly available this Wednesday. It is a shame that the documents were not put into the public domain…
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The trouble with the Government’s National Policy Statement proposal
Housing is raging as an issue right now. And the Government is feeling the heat. Ordinary kiwis are becoming upset that in the land of milk and honey more and more are without access to shelter, that most basic of human needs. The Government’s approach has varied. For a long time it refused to accept that there…
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Commissioners for Auckland Council if the Unitary Plan is mucked up?
The politics of this has been simmering away for a while. There is a concerted battle between Central and Local Government to apportion blame for Auckland’s housing problems which are now a full blown crisis. The Unitary Plan debate is central. Whoever designed the system and the timeline was cruel. The job is immense, having to shoehorn eight district…