Unitary Plan mythbusting
Since the release of the Independent Hearing Panel’s recommendations on the Unitary Plan there has been a huge amount of information circulating about what the changes are. Some of this is understandable given the complexity of the process and the legalistic nature of planning, while some of this seems to be deliberate misinformation spread by those with an agenda to push.…
31 Comments Next Steps for the Unitary Plan
It’s nearly two weeks since the Independent Hearings Panel (IHP) recommendations on the Unitary Plan were revealed. Tomorrow the council start a week and a half of likely quite tedious deliberations and formal decisions on those recommendations. A quick reminder about the implication of the Council’s different decisions: If the Council approves an IHP recommendation (and as long as that recommendation was not out of scope) then it becomes part of the Unitary Plan and can only be appealed on points of law to the High Court.…
Widen a road to save $1.8 billion
Auckland Transport are consulting on the widening a 900m section Neilson St in Onehunga as part of the East-West link.
The public are being given a chance to have their say on changes designed to improve travel times and congestion along Neilson Street in Onehunga.…
What, specifically, do you want?
I think reasonable people could disagree about the Independent Hearings Panel’s recommendations on the Auckland Unitary Plan. In fact, a large number of generally reasonable people have spent a lot of the last two years disagreeing about the appropriate shape of the plan.…
Sunday reading 7 August 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week’s edition is a bit short, but it’s looking at a few important issues.
First, Tokyo. It’s surprisingly affordable – in spite of being a large city with not a lot of undeveloped land. The reason?…
Thoroughly modern commuting
This is a guest post from reader Isabella
“You’re going to Auckland how?” said yet another person.
Why did it feel like I was doing something crazy? It was simply that in this day and age, I was eschewing flight in favour of going by train from Wellington to my conference in Auckland – and taking a ten-speed bike, no less.…
Shared spaces then and now
How things change… or don’t change.
I recently ran across two videos that illustrate humans’ ability to navigate complex urban environments with a mix of people on the street.
The first video is from the dawn of the motor vehicle age: San Francisco in 1906.…
Unitary Plan reinforces need for focus on PT
The Unitary Plan is a crucial document for improving housing in Auckland, by enabling a lot more of it. As we’ve discussed, the Independent Hearing Panel’s (IHP) Recommended Unitary Plan enables almost double the “feasible” capacity from what the originally Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan (PAUP) did – from 213k dwellings to 422k dwellings.…
Auckland’s Leafiest Suburbs
Auckland’s ‘leafy suburbs’ is a term we’ve heard a lot over the last few years as debate about the Unitary Plan has raged. But what suburbs are the leafiest? Now we have an answer.
Reader Euan has put together some maps looking at the number of public trees within 500m of each residential property and normalised the results to provide a degree of comparison between residences on the isthmus.…
Guest Post: Don’t fear the shoebox
This is a guest post by Frank McRae
Saturday’s episode of current affairs show The Nation on TV3 featured a panel discussing Auckland’s Unitary Plan. Featuring prominently in the discussion was much clutching of pearls over the prospect of “shoebox” apartments.…
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