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Showing posts with label Planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planning. Show all posts
Friday, August 12, 2016

Phil McDermott: Back to Basics: Planning, Housing Markets, and the Cost of Ignoring Economics

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Acknowledging the impact of planning on housing At last, economists, commentators and the media in New Zealand are recognising what...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Frank Newman: Revitalising the CBD

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Central Business Districts (CBDs) are facing the challenges of change. People are changing the way they go about their lives and in part...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Michael Coote: Submission on the Auckland Unitary Plan

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May 2013 Draft Auckland Unitary Plan Feedback from an Auckland Ratepayer and Resident To whom it may concern, I write concern...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Frank Newman: RMA a failure

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The Resource management Act is about to get another makeover, the 21 st since the legislation became law in 1991. The new changes are t...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Phil McDermott: The Unravelling of the Auckland Plan

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Getting the housing equation wrong The failure of the Auckland Plan to reflect the simple aspirations of Aucklanders for home ownership...
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Bryan Leyland: Auckland will be liveable only if it is affordable

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The Auckland plan ignores the potential for modern technology to solve our transport and other problems and, instead, pushes expensive...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Phil McDermott: Upping the Ante - Where can we Afford to Live?

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Auckland fiddles, Sydney makes its move The Auckland Council has released a Housing Action Plan that will be an addendum to its encyclo...
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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Phil McDermott: Out Might Just be Better than Up - the Housing Density Debate is Not Over

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The fall-back position - let's not be LA New Minister of Housing Dr Nick Smith is determined to “smash the city limits”, so that A...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Karl du Fresne: Council bureaucracy frustration

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Everyone I know seems to have a story about the frustrations of dealing with council bureaucracies. Try to build a simple garage to ke...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Phil McDermott: Congestion, Density, and Transit– Have we got the mix all wrong?

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The compact city/transit answer to the urban sustainability question Expensive – and usually loss-making – public transit is enjoyin...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Phil McDermott: Redesigning a City - Planning an Affordable Future for Auckland

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At last some urgency ... The   Government has responded   to the analysis of   housing affordability   by largely adopting the multiface...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Phil McDermott: The Answer Is Urban Consolidation – What Was The Question?

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Perpetuating the Myth The Green Party is perpetuating the claim that development beyond Auckland’s “city limits” imposes a high cost on rat...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Frank Newman: Environmental activism

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When the Resource Management Act (RMA) was first introduced it was with the expectation that it would empower communities. It has done the ...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Sandra Goudie: Rural Property Lockdown

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Already Regional Councils require farm plans to some degree, activities became discretionary for any property identified as being a “signifi...
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Monday, April 16, 2012

Phil McDermott: From Connection to Dispersal - urbanisation in the 21st Century

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Trade, transport and city growth:  Commentators have long studied connections between cities and how these influence their development.  Th...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

Richard Epstein: City Planners Run Amok

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The Upper West Side (UWS) of New York City operates in a moral and political universe different from my own. Currently, its confident pro...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Owen McShane: Why so much Dissent?

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There is a wave of dissent spreading throughout the Western World in response to the failed experiment in central planning at the local and ...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Martin Durkin: Three Cheers for Urban Sprawl

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“Hands off Our Land!” screams the Daily Telegraph, like some shotgun-toting red-faced farmer.  The newspaper, on behalf of the reactionary ...

Phil McDermott: Rethink the Link ...should Auckland pour money into a hole in the ground

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Anchoring the CBD, or Sinking it? A cornerstone of the Draft Auckland Plan is implementing an underground inner city rail link.   At an es...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Owen McShane: Unwinding the Sustainable Development Mindset

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I am frequently reminded of Richard Prebble's commentary on the wonderful TV Show “ Yes Minister ” (still running on SKY). He said “The...
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