The Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 is now in effect and requires Tauranga City Council to adopt new rules from 20 August 2022 to enable more intensification in the city’s residential zones. The relevant rules include the removal of minimum lot sizes and permission to build up to 3…
NEW GOVERNMENT POLICY MEANS COUNCILS WILL BE FORCED TO ACCEPT DEVELOPMENTS WITH NO CAR PARKS The National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020 came into force on 20 August 2020. It aims to increase the density of housing by imposing restrictions on Councils so that all tier 1 cities – Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Tauranga and…
It should be called ‘the missing link’. A project announced and consented during the previous National Government’s tenure, and quietly cancelled by the Greens and Labour after their election win. It certainly created uncertainty and inconvenience for some of our clients who had land interests in the proposed road corridor, and has kept me in…
Tauranga is growing at a pace we have never seen before. This means our city needs to plan for and invest in infrastructure, land supply for housing and development must keep pace with this. Tauranga City Council and Bay of Plenty Regional Council/Smartgrowth have each respectively released the following consultation documents: Tauranga Urban Strategy (TUS)…