dec 20, 2013 - Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013: Additional regions/districts added

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A further eight regions/districts were added to Schedule 1 of the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013. These additional scheduled districts were:
• Christchurch City;
• Wellington City;
• Hutt City;
• Upper Hutt City;
• Porirua City;
• Kapiti;
• Tauranga City; and
• Western Bay of Plenty.
Under the Act, the Government and a Territorial Authority whose district was within a scheduled region or district could enter into an agreement to work together to address housing supply and affordability issues in the district of the territorial authority (a Housing Accord).
This was the first step, with Government and the territorial authorities commencing work on identifying the barriers to supply and affordability of housing in each of the districts and then putting in place measures to make improvements. These measures could include declaring an area within a scheduled region or district to be a Special Housing Area for the purpose of the Act.
Applications for sub-divisions that met the required criteria were then able to be considered by a Council under the fast-tracked mechanisms in the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013, instead of the Resource Management Act 1991. This required approvals within six months for greenfield developments.
Prior to this, Auckland was the only scheduled region under the Act.

Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html

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