Deciding between Bishop’s choice
Auckland Council’s Policy and Planning Committee conducted an intense and heated seven-hour meeting back in September to consider two Government options for Auckland’s future planning...
Category : Urban Planning
A tale of three cities
Caption: The Cityringen Metro in Copenhagen now serves 300,000 people daily. Copenhagen, Manchester, and Birmingham illustrate how, with political consensus and innovative thinking, limited public...
Infrastructure – the elephant in the urban intensification room
Since this article was published in the November 202 issue of Local Government magazine, Auckland suffered a major flooding disaster over the city’s anniversary weekend,...
Urban density rule changes ignore flood risk
By Dr Alastair Barnett, Chair, IAHR Flood Risk Management Technical Committee. On 19 October, the Government announced; “New building intensification rules will mean up to...
Door open for developers to ride over town planning
Councils around the country are reeling with the Government’s cavalier dismissal of resource consents for the sake of chasing ‘affordable housing’, in the face of...
Shifting decisions down to street level
By Eric Crampton, chief economist, The New Zealand Initiative. Urban land use planning systems that load councils with the costs of urban growth while letting...