jul 30, 2015 - Auckland Housing Accord: Additional Special Housing Area designated
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The Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas (Auckland—New June 2015 Area) Order 2015 declared one additional area to be a Special Housing Area for the purposes of the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013. The Order also specified the criteria that a development must have in order to be a qualifying development for the purposes of the Act. This included the maximum number of storeys (5), the maximum height (27 metres) and the minimum number of houses (15). Affordability was also a specified criterion with:
• 10 percent of dwellings the sale price was not to exceed 75 percent of the Auckland region median house price; or
• 5 percent of dwellings the price at which the dwelling was sold would mean that mortgage repayments for a household receiving the Auckland median household income would not exceed 30 percent of the household’s gross monthly income (based on a number of assumptions).
The additional Special Housing Area was:
• McLaren Road, Glenbrook (87 hectares with a potential for 800 homes).
A proposed development in a Special Housing Area that was predominantly residential and met the qualifying criteria could be fast-tracked under the Act, rather than consented under the Resource Management Act 1991.
The Order was the fourth to create Special Housing Areas in Auckland under the terms of the Auckland Housing Accord agreed between the Minister of Housing and Mayor of Auckland in May 2013.
Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html
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