Auckland Council

Suggestions Auckland housing will follow Sydney & Melbourne 'baseless'

21 Dec 18, 12:04pm

Auckland Council's chief economist David Norman argues Auckland's housing shortage will prevent Sydney and Melbourne style price falls
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Why section prices are high in most major urban areas, and solutions

2 Dec 18, 12:42pm

Rodney Dickens

48 comments

Rodney Dickens finds the council-controlled subdivision process, the RMA and increasing infrastructure costs directly contribute to high section prices, and these processes give cover for gouging by developers
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Have job, must travel

27 Nov 18, 12:15pm

Guest

23 comments

Auckland is adding new jobs fast, and consenting much more housing. But housing isn't being built near where the jobs are. David Norman explores the reasons for the mismatch
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The government should do the obvious to fix housing affordability

17 Nov 18, 2:43pm

Rodney Dickens

65 comments

Rodney Dickens says the real problem inhibiting affordable housing is the cost of sections, and that is the one key thing the Government can do to solve the affordability problem
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Twyford lauds 'innovative' financing of infrastructure

13 Nov 18, 10:32am

David Hargreaves

44 comments

Special purpose vehicle will fund $91 mln of infrastructure to support building of 9,000 homes at Wainui, north of Auckland
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Ardern rules out regional fuel taxes beyond Auckland while she's PM

24 Oct 18, 4:48pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

27 comments

Ardern commits to restricting regional fuel taxes to Auckland while she's at the helm; Bridges happy, but dubs her decision a backdown made on the hoof
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Waterfront stadium for Auckland 'affordable and doable'

19 Oct 18, 5:00am

Gareth Vaughan

44 comments

Consortium of Auckland businesses pushes for the opportunity to manage the development of a waterfront stadium & redevelopment of Eden Park
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How rapid transit access adds to property values

18 Oct 18, 3:24pm

Guest

47 comments

Auckland Council economists found that property up to 500m from a train station gets a value boost, making the 'value catchments' smaller than expected. And the value uplift isn't everywhere trains service
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Auckland Council's Building Consents Department blasted

18 Sep 18, 2:25pm

Greg Ninness

38 comments

Independent report into Auckland Council's Building Consents Department finds major shortcomings resulting in poor customer service
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Revenge of the NIMBYs: Is council too weak to enact its own Unitary Plan?

12 Sep 18, 9:22am

Guest

53 comments

Auckland Council has rejected 2 high-density apartment developments on public transport routes near the CBD. Hayden Donnell asks whether council’s consents department really believes in the Unitary Plan
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What are we building and how has it changed?

8 Sep 18, 10:31am

Guest

40 comments

Auckland Council is consenting many more dwellings, especially smaller dwelling units. And building these will require a different type of construction worker, one already in hot demand
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How much has the Unitary Plan driven new Auckland dwelling consents?

28 Aug 18, 7:16am

Rodney Dickens

19 comments

Rodney Dickens criticises Auckland Council's economists, claiming their desire for higher density housing near rapid transport routes taints their analysis
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A housing stocktake by Auckland Council's chief economist

23 Aug 18, 9:53am

Jenée Tibshraeny

127 comments

What if we magically increased the number of houses in Auckland by 20% and dropped population growth by 25%? We'd still have a housing shortage, concludes Auckland Council's chief economist
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Slumlord's ex fined after her 'ostrich inaction'

18 Aug 18, 9:06am

Jenée Tibshraeny

9 comments

Augustine Lau's ex-partner sentenced for ignoring enforcement orders issued over sewage and asbestos contamination at crowded rental properties
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Auckland's Unitary Plan 'a success'

8 Aug 18, 2:57pm

David Hargreaves

39 comments

Auckland Council points to surging housing consent numbers particularly on 'brownfield sites' as evidence the Unitary Plan is working and 'helping deliver a more compact city'
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Building consents a good indicator of future housing supply

7 Aug 18, 2:56pm

Greg Ninness

12 comments

Auckland Council figures suggest around 98% of new dwellings consented in the region actually get built
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Slumlord receives record jail sentence

11 Jul 18, 5:53pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

32 comments

Augustine Lau sent to jail for two years having littered Auckland properties with portable classrooms, houses and make-shift sewage systems to cram more tenants on to them
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Notorious property manager costs Auckland ratepayers more than $1m

28 Jun 18, 12:23pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

15 comments

Auckland Council says it has spent more than $1m on legal proceedings against property developer/manager Augustine Lau and has only been awarded $407k in costs and fines
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Councillors kept in the dark over a significant light rail risks report

15 Jun 18, 12:40pm

Jason Walls

82 comments

Report highlights 'considerable risks' of trying to get light rail from Auckland's CBD to airport in time for 2021 America's Cup & APEC Summit
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