Zoning out amenity
Mike Doesburg, a partner at Wynn Williams, asks: what will land use plans look like in a system deliberately blind to visual amenity? The topic...
Tag : Auckland Unitary Plan
Auckland’s post-flood growth plan
Auckland Council’s Planning, Environment and Parks Committee says it has a new strategy for developing its city over the next three decades as it is...
AKL transport project becomes heated state housing fight
It could be dead in the water after next month’s election but Labour’s $29b plus Light Rail project for Auckland continues to keep hostilities between...
The hare-brained MDRS
DAVID SEYMOUR, LEADER OF THE ACT PARTY. Labour and National have promised new homes to a generation by burying their normal political differences. Unfortunately, their...
The NPSUD and urban intensification in Auckland
Local Government magazine talks with John Duguid, the general manager for Plans and Places at Auckland Council, about the pressures of the NPSUD that came...