{"id":629827,"date":"2026-10-14T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629827\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:28:12","slug":"national-to-scrap-ban-on-car-parking-requirements-as-party-releases-auckland-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629827\/","title":{"rendered":"National to scrap ban on car parking requirements as party releases Auckland plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GNHNC2AAYZEGXIFPLJNACLFI4Q.png\" alt=\"Adam Pearse\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/adam-pearse\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Pearse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Political Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>13 Oct, 2026 08:39 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">National says it will abolish the blanket ban on minimum car parking requirements as the party announces its policies focused on Auckland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         National transport spokesman Chris Bishop and Auckland spokesman Simon Watts today released the party\u2019s \u201cBacking Auckland to succeed\u201d policy document, which was filled mostly with already announced<br \/>\n         policies addressing housing, cost of living and crime.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">However, it also included a commitment to abolish the ban on minimum car parking requirements and to allow councils to use those requirements in suburban areas outside those identified for intensification, like in city centres or near rapid transit stops. <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNew homes should come with the parking residents need in the right places,\u201d National\u2019s policy document read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Pearse Deputy Political Editor\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 13 Oct, 2026 08:39 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[308917,694,806,51,1060,139877,3944,92509,42,29484,3556,43,90,30205,4762,2170,10269,699,82743,312,14170,61,40,38,41,39,1533],"class_list":["post-629827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abolish","tag-announces","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-ban","tag-blanket","tag-car","tag-focused","tag-headlines","tag-minimum","tag-national","tag-news","tag-on","tag-parking","tag-party","tag-plan","tag-policies","tag-releases","tag-requirements","tag-says","tag-scrap","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629827","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=629827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}