feb 19, 2016 - Auckland Housing Accord: Further Special Housing Areas designated
Description:
The Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas (Auckland – New February 2016 Areas) Order 2016 declared a further fourteen 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:
• Argent Lane, Wainui: 190.53 hectares, 2,403 homes;
• Bremner Road Extension, Dury: 22.61 hectares, 300 homes;
• Brightside Road, Stanmore Bay: 0.41 hectares, 40-50 homes;
• Canal Road, Avondale: 0.14 hectares, 7 homes;
• Forge Way, Mt Wellington: 0.17 hectares, 41-50 homes;
• Hobsonville Point (Catalina Precinct and Marine Industry Precinct Extension: 13.67 hectares, 150-160 homes;
• Kelmarna Avenue, Herne Bay: 0.23 hectares, 70 homes;
• Link Crescent, Stanmore Bay: 2.07 hectares, 40-60 homes;
• Manurewa Cluster: 0.77 hectares, 37 homes;
• Moire Road, Massey: 9.20 hectares, 175-200 homes;
• Ockleston Landing, Hobsonville, 3.61 hectares, 70-80 homes;
• Onehunga Cluster: 0.46 hectares, 22 homes;
• Tamaki Regeneration Area (Pamure and Point England), 119.20 hectares, 1,192 homes; and
• Zion Road, Birkenhead: 019 hectares, 50 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 Argent Lane, Bremner Road Extension and Ockleston Landing and four in the other Special Housing Areas; and
• the percentage of dwellings that must be affordable dwellings, for qualifying developments relating to 15 or more dwellings only;
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 eighth 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 118, with a long-term capacity of more than 52,000 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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