NZ Urban Development news from the media | 14 Jun 2022 | Proposed Queenstown apartments will be tallest buildings in town 'by far'

Proposed Queenstown apartments will be tallest buildings in town 'by far'

A proposed billion-dollar development will smash Queenstown’s height limits with five buildings about double the permitted levels.

The tallest building in the Taumata/Lakeview project will be a 13-storey, 51.3-metre accommodation block on a site with a 26m height limit.

Details of the proposal have been revealed in an application for the first stage of development.

The public is excluded from the decision process as it is being considered under the Government’s fast-tracking legislation.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/128810571/proposed-queenstown-apartments-will-be-tallest-buildings-in-town-by-far

Government partners with Ngāti Kahungunu to deliver new homes for whānau

Today, the Minister of Housing Hon Dr Megan Woods and the Associate Minister of Housing (Māori Housing) Peeni Henare announced a further investment in housing to build up to 131 new homes for whānau who need them most.

Ministers Woods, Henare and Jackson joined Ngāti Kahungunu in Wellington this morning to sign the partnership, which follows on from previous agreements with Toitū Tairāwhiti in May and Ka Uruora in April this year as part of the National Māori Housing strategy MAIHI Ka Ora.

“The housing crisis was decades in the making, and we are working hard to turn it around through our housing policy reforms, and the largest Government investment since the 1970s,” Megan Woods said.

“Our programme is building new housing, and our regional economies and construction sector are receiving a boost through our record infrastructure investment, all helping to secure New Zealand’s economy for future generations.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/government-partners-ngāti-kahungunu-deliver-new-homes-whānau

Auckland Council monthly housing update, June 2022

June highlights:

• 1614 dwellings were consented in April 2022.
• In the year ending April 2022, 21,468 dwellings were consented in the region.
• 26 per cent of new dwellings consented in April 2022 were houses, 10 per cent were apartments and 64 per cent were townhouses, flats, units, retirement village units, or other types of attached dwellings.
• 32 dwellings were consented on K inga Ora or Regeneration Company owned land in April 2022.
• 1480 of dwellings consented in April 2022 were inside the RUB. Over the past 12 months, 93 per cent of new dwellings consented were inside the RUB.
• 19 per cent of dwellings consented were inside the 1500m walking catchments of the rapid transit network in April 2022.
• 919 dwellings were 'completed' by having a Code Compliance Certificate (CCC) issued in April 2022.
• In the year ending April 2022, 13,059 dwellings had a CCC issued.

https://www.knowledgeauckland.org.nz/publications/auckland-monthly-housing-update-june-2022/