The Productivity Commission is seeking feedback from the public, businesses and local authorities on ways to improve how local government makes land available for housing.
The Commission released an issues paper, Using Land for Housing, and is inviting individuals and organisations to make submissions on it by 22 December.
This follows a request from the Government for the Commission to examine and compare the rules and processes of local government, to identify leading practices in planning and decision making about making land available for housing.
"Our inquiry will look at options for sourcing land, including new developments on the edges of cities as well as intensifying housing within cities," Productivity Commission chairman Murray Sherwin said.
"We will also examine the factors that limit how land can be used, including the availability of infrastructure."
Sherwin said the Commission would be looking for examples of planning approaches that had enabled an adequate supply of land to be developed, while balancing the competing impacts of development.
"We will be focusing on the local authorities in New Zealand's fastest growing areas, but we are interested in hearing about good practices and approaches everywhere, including from overseas," he said.
"In order to understand which local government processes work well on the ground, we need to hear from those who have experience with developing land, interacting with councils or running local authority planning and land use processes.
"In particular, we are keen to hear people's views on the questions set out in our issues paper."
The issues paper is available by clicking on this link: www.productivity.govt.nz/inquiry-content/using-land
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2 Comments
A lotta really good questions in this tome (96 pages). I, although not a developer (of property, anyways), will most likely submit upon the economic externalities caused by planning processes: time=money; money and time injected early in a dev cycle = opportunity costs imposed; every and all cost plus margin washes up straight into land and thence house and thence suburb and thence city build costs.
And thence housing unaffordabilty
Same ol' schtick.
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