Auckland Council has voted in favour of a plan that could see more intensified housing in the city.<\/p>\n
It is a response to a government requirement for the council to allow for more than 1.4 million homes to be built in Auckland.<\/p>\n
The plan put to councillors today was a compromise between two options that have been sent to local boards for consultation.<\/p>\n
One option would have met only the minimum requirements set by the government. The other would have seen further intensification in the city, particularly around town centres and transport hubs.<\/p>\n
Councillors voted in favour of the hybrid plan by 17 votes to five. There is a further opportunity for public consultation on Plan Change 120.<\/p>\n
The plan keeps six-storey zoning for all areas within walking distance of rapid transit and town centres.<\/p>\n
Building heights would also lift to 10-15-storeys around most train stations on all lines within 10km of the city centre, not just specific Western line stations specified in law.<\/p>\n
The exception is Meadowbank train station, where it’s proposed to reduce building heights to a maximum of six storeys due to its valley location and poor access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auckland Council has voted in favour of a plan that could see more intensified housing in the city.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-536867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}