dec 11, 2015 - Auckland Housing Accord: Further Special Housing Areas designated
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The Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas (Auckland – New December 2015 Areas) Order 2015 declared a further nine areas in Auckland City to be Special Housing Areas 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.
The additional Special Housing Areas were:
• Takanini SHA extension: 19.6 hectares, 300 homes;
• Hilary Crescent, Belmont: 9.6 hectares, 340 homes;
• Karepiro Drive, Stanmore Bay: 14.8 hectares, 78 homes;
• McAnnalley Street, Manurewa: 0.9 hectares, 92-111 homes;
• Mill Road, Alfriston: 3.4 hectares, 29-54 homes;
• Mountain Road, Epsom: 0.4 hectares, 60-80 homes;
• St Georges Road, Avondale: 0.7 hectares, 30 homes;
• Larch Street, Avondale: 0.5 hectares, 74 homes;
• Wellington Street, Freemans Bay: 0.2 hectares, 51 homes; and
• Meadowbank Road, Meadowbank: 0.5 hectares, 31 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 specified the following:
• the maximum number of storeys that buildings may have was six;
• the maximum calculated height that buildings must not exceed was 27 metres;
• the minimum number of dwellings to be built was 50 in the Takanini Extension and four in the other qualifying developments; and
• the percentage of dwellings that must be affordable dwellings, for qualifying developments relating to 15 or more dwellings;
o ten percent of dwellings the sale price was not to exceed 75 percent of the Auckland region median house price; or
o five 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 Order was the seventh 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. These new areas brought the total number of Special Housing Areas established in Auckland to 106, with a long-term capacity of more than 48,000 new homes.
Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html
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