Auckland Council

Waterfront stadium for Auckland 'affordable and doable'

19 Oct 18, 5:00am

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Avanti Finance borrows $200 mln through RMBS issue

13 Jun 18, 11:06am

Gareth Vaughan

Finance company Avanti completes first issue of residential mortgage backed securities
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'Auckland Council’s rejection of evidence will see poor people further impoverished'

8 Jun 18, 2:49pm

Sam Warburton

58 comments

The NZ Initiative's Sam Warburton says it's time to push back against a lack of evidence in local & central government policy making
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BNZ cooperating with MBIE's Labour Inspectorate to resolve Holidays Act issues

21 May 18, 9:43am

Gareth Vaughan

BNZ working with MBIE to resolve Holidays Act breaches which include annual and public holiday payments to 'certain employees'
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This week's guest Top 10

11 May 18, 10:00am

Guest

23 comments

Infometrics' Brad Olsen with the top 10 things to know about the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax
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Burning Bridges: Goff hits back at Opposition’s criticism

2 May 18, 2:24pm

Jason Walls

21 comments

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff responds to Opposition Leader Simon Bridges’ claims the Council ‘lacks fiscal discipline’
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Bridges attacks Auckland Council for its ‘lack of fiscal discipline’

30 Apr 18, 11:02am

Jason Walls

105 comments

The Opposition Leader takes a swipe at Auckland Council in his first major economic speech as leader and says the Council should aspire to be more like the previous National-led Government
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$28 billion Auckland transport funding package announced

26 Apr 18, 9:02am

Jason Walls

103 comments

Phils Twyford & Goff unveil $28 bln decade long Auckland transport plan including light rail, Penlink & Mill Rd, heavy rail & bus upgrades, safety improvements, plus more dedicated cycle lanes
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