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Hannah Thomson
Feb 164 min
Plan Change 78- is it on hold?
You may recall that Plan Change 78 is Auckland Council’s intensification plan change- including changes required by the National Policy...
Mary Zhou
Sep 10, 20235 min
Plan Change 78 – where is it all up to now?
Many of you will have been eagerly watching the progress of proposed Plan Change 78, also called the intensification plan change. This is...
Charlotte Vellinga
Jun 18, 20237 min
New Development – Do you provide access and parking or not?
Are you thinking of developing your property? Quite often the first questions that come to mind are around the number of houses you can...
Claire Deng
Feb 26, 20235 min
Natural Hazards- How’re they affecting development now?
It’s been such an unsettling start to 2023, with the recent floods, slips and Cyclone Gabrielle hitting Auckland and around the country. ...
Mary Zhou
Feb 18, 20234 min
Intensification in Auckland- where is PC78 up to?
One of the big planning changes proposed in Auckland last year was the notification proposed Plan Change 78. Signaling residential...
Claire Deng
Sep 19, 20225 min
Transport Plan Change 79- does it impact your development?
You may remember the removal of parking minimums from the Auckland Unitary Plan that occurred in February 2022. This was a requirement...
Hannah Thomson
Aug 28, 20226 min
Auckland plan changes- what do they cover?
For those of you in Auckland, you may have seen the large number of proposed plan changes notified recently. There is A LOT of change...
Hannah Thomson
Aug 21, 20224 min
Intensification for you, you and you!
For those of you living in urban areas or developing urban land, you will no doubt have heard about Auckland Council’s intensification...
Claire Deng
May 24, 20224 min
MDRS and Special Character Areas- can they mix?
Many of you will have heard of the proposed medium density changes introduced by the central government. These changes are often referred...
Clara Casaes
May 8, 20224 min
MDRS – What’s a "qualifying matter"?
In this blog series we are discussing the changes planned to enable urban intensification in medium density urban areas, with emphasis on...
Hannah Thomson
May 1, 20226 min
Medium density changes- What’s Auckland Council’s response?
There is a lot going on in planning in 2022- and at the moment there is a lot of talk about proposed changes to development restrictions...
Claire Deng
Apr 24, 20224 min
Medium Density Residential Standards– How does it compare to what’s in the Unitary Plan now?
In this blog series, we are looking at the ‘medium density changes’ introduced by the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and...
Helen Heard
Apr 15, 20223 min
Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS)- what’s the process?
As we discussed in last week’s blog, changes to medium density urban areas in Tier 1 cities are on the horizon. But what’s the process...
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