may 20, 2016 - Auckland Housing Accord: Further Special Housing Areas designated
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The Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas (Auckland – New May 2016 Areas) Order 2016 declared a further 42 areas (including extensions to six areas already designated) 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 minimum number of dwellings that must be built (50 in Clarks Beach Road, Clarks Beach and four in each other Special Housing Area;
• the maximum number of storeys that buildings may have was six and the maximum calculated height that buildings may have was 27 metres; 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).
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 ninth 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 154, with a potential yield of around 56,000 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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