may 7, 2014 - Auckland Housing Accord: 41 Special Housing Areas
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A further 41 Special Housing Areas under the Auckland Housing Accord were announced. These were expected to yield 18,000 new homes. This bought to 63 the number of Special Housing Areas established under the Accord since October 2013. In total, the Special Housing Areas were anticipated to facilitate 33,500 new homes, contributing toward the Accord target of 39,000 new homes over three years.
Many of the new Special Housing Areas were larger than those previously announced and included 34 direct requests from landowners or developers as well as extensions to three existing Special Housing Areas.
The 41 additional Special Housing Areas included seven strategic areas that had been identified by the Council as having good transport links and access to other infrastructure. These were larger areas where the Council wanted to signal to the market that they wanted to encourage growth. The seven strategic areas were:
• Great North Road;
• Otahuhu Coast;
• Flat Bush;
• Northcoate;
• Albany East;
• Takanini; and
• New Lynn.
The Auckland Housing Accord between the Auckland Council and the government provided for the creation of Special Housing Areas by the Auckland Council, with the approval of the government. Applications for sub-divisions that met the required criteria were then able to be considered by the 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.
The additional areas were included in the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas
Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html(Auckland) Amendment Order 2014 which came into force on 31 July 2014.
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