Saying Yes to More Housing

Saying yes to more housing

City-shaping changes are coming to New Zealand’s largest city, ensuring that Auckland can fully harness the economic growth benefits of the new City Rail Link, RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Auckland Minister Simeon Brown say. The Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill (the Bill) has been reported back to Parliament today by the Environment Committee, containing significant changes to enable housing growth…

By shaping Auckland, we shape ourselves - Greater Auckland

“First we shape the cities — then they shape us.”. These words by renowned Danish architect and urban designer Jan Gehl are a simple but powerful reminder of our ability – and perhaps even duty – to shape any city, including our own home of Auckland, for the better. Unfortunately, as we all experience and know each day, a lot of Tāmaki Makaurau is shaped in a way that forces people to default to cars for getting around, clogging up our roads wit…

Auckland Council vs the CRL

Hayden Donnell at The Spinoff writes: About half an hour into Auckland Council’s debate on upzoning the city centre last week, mayor Wayne Brown looked up with a puzzled look on his face. He didn’t get why planners were telling his councillors they should vote to limit building heights on Karangahape Road. The area, he noted, was right next to a new train station on the rail line his council and the government have just spent $5.5 billion upgra…