Looking at Urban Planning and Design
Will he follow through though? Minister of Finance Bill English in Question Time yesterday indicated that Auckland might very well needing greater housing density to achieve the aims of … Continue reading English Warm To More Liberal Unitary Plan Rules to Allow Intensification #AKLPols
Need to know what we got before the Spatial Priorities via the Long Term Plan Kick In While I prepare the evidence chain for the Super Metropolitan Centre concept before … Continue reading Stock-take On Our Centres? I would say so before Unitary Plan Goes Live
Method to the madness This particular theme has come across both the Centres Zones and at the moment with the workshops the Residential Zones. That is the respective zones in … Continue reading Splitting the Zone Hierarchies in the Unitary Plan
Biggest topic of the Unitary Plan to soon start While it did not form the largest portion of my own Unitary Plan submission (the Centres Zones did that) the Residential … Continue reading Unitary Plan Residential Workshops and Mediation to Get Under-Way
All for the villas going and new mid rise apartments being built in their place I see the Herald has picked up on complaints are a set of dilapidated Victorian villas … Continue reading When Building Something New Actually Adds Character
Submissions are open Interesting recommendations made Yesterday the Productivity Commission released its draft Land for Housing report. The full and summary versions are at the bottom of this post. In … Continue reading Productivity Commission Releases Draft Land For Housing Report
Housing Supply Getting There – Slowly I bet seeing the headline of 6000 (actually 5,700) apartments on the way across suburban Auckland would have made a few of the more … Continue reading Apartments in the Suburbs on The Rise
New Space to be open by 2019 From Auckland Council: Design team appointed for new Auckland civic space A design team has been appointed to prepare plans for the new … Continue reading Design Team Appointed For New Auckland Civic Space (Lower Queen Street)
We have a housing shortage, Council could show some leadership on its own land Calling Developers and Citizens: Show us what you could do! We have all heard the Auckland Housing … Continue reading 8.12 Hectares of Council Land In Manukau Being ‘Land Banked’ #Auckland2016
One Project continues full steam The other you would struggle to find anything on When the Auckland Plan and later the (Proposed Auckland) Unitary Plan came out it was … Continue reading City Transformational Project Fallen off the Rails #Auckland2016
Talking Southern Auckland 